I'm successfully using cpp-netlib (v0.11.0) and I'm developing some unit tests to test my HTTP server and handler function.
The handler function has the following required signature:
typedef boost::network::http::server<RequestHandler> HttpServerType;
void operator()(const HttpServerType::request& request, HttpServerType::response& response)
What I'd like to be able to do is instantiate the request object so I can call the handler's function call operator. But I can't get it to compile.
In the above signature, request is a typedef for basic_request<Tag>,
which has a constructor which takes a reference to a boost::network::uri::uri.
The code below generates an error when compiled using clang 3.5.
boost::network::uri::uri url;
url << uri::scheme("http") << uri::host(host) << uri::port(port) << uri::path(path);
HttpServerType::request request(url);
No matching constructor for initialization of 'HttpServerType::request' (aka 'basic_request<boost::network::http::tags::http_server>');
What am I doing wrong?
I found a way to do it.
The template is specialised for the http_server tag.
template <>
struct basic_request<tags::http_async_server> :
not_quite_pod_request_base<tags::http_async_server>
{};
and this only has a default ctor.
The following code does compile:
HttpServerType::request request;
request.destination.append("fred");
request.method.append("POST");