Maturity of Networking stack

[azais-corentin]

Hello,
I've been using Glaze for a while now and I discovered a few days ago that It had a whole Networking part that I missed.

I wasn't able to find much info outside of the documentation and I'm wondering how mature that part is.
Is it production ready?

Glaze has been very reliable for JSON. Since I'm looking to transition away from a mix of libraries to achieve HTTP, routing (REST), CORS, WebSocket, I thought Glaze could be a good choice.

Another question I have is related to ASIO. After a quick look at the code I see you only support standalone ASIO and not Boost.Asio. Would you be open to a PR to support both libraries?

[azais-corentin]

Another important point for my use case is the use with unix domain sockets (setting the address family to AF_UNIX). Is that supported?

[stephenberry]

Much of the networking in Glaze is new in v5.5.0, however there are a number of unit tests to ensure things are working and parts of it utilize older Glaze code that has been battle tested. The networking code will continue to improve as the team I work with utilizes it more. And, as always, feel free to submit pull requests to improve the codebase.

Another important point for my use case is the use with unix domain sockets (setting the address family to AF_UNIX). Is that supported?

Asio supports unix domain sockets, here is some boost documentation, but it is the same for the standalone asio, which Glaze currently uses: https://think-async.com/Asio/boost_asio_1_30_2/doc/html/boost_asio/overview/posix/local.html

I'm not sure how unix domain sockets would fit into the current Glaze networking codebase, but I would be happy to merge any necessary changes to make it work.

[azais-corentin]

Thanks for the answer. That explains why there's not much yet outside of the documentation :) (which is great by the way!)

In the past few hours I've made a new branch and refactored parts of my server to use Glaze.
My use case (REST and WebSockets) is pretty basic but I've almost managed feature parity with what I was using before (libhv). I'm only missing a raw tcp server and a proper http client.

As for the unix domain sockets, I'm not sure how it would be implemented using ASIO but here's an implementation using raw linux sockets: https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/pull/1346/files

[stephenberry]

Thanks! I'll have to dig into unix domain sockets more, but that pull request you shared looks helpful.

If there are missing features feel free to add issues to Glaze or pull requests.