This is a small header-only template library to provide utilities to ease some operations with ASIO. It implements a set of composed functions with signatures that comply with Universal Asynchronous Model.
The source code can be used as a reference for educational purposes. I hope it will be helpful to understand the concept of continuations, non-blocking asynchronous and multithreading programming.
- with CMake using
add_subdirectory. Clone the project as a submodule with git and add the folder as a subdirectory. - install with CMake and use
find_package(eld::asio_utils CONFIG REQUIRED)(not implemented yet) - just copy the
includefolder to your project. Don't forget to have ASIO available as it is a dependency.
- async_connection_attempt - asynchronously tries to establish a connection (TCP only for now) provided with a timeout and number of attempts.
- async_send_queue and make_async_send_queue - persistent asynchronous send queue.
Serializes calls to
asio::async_write, now you can make calls as many as you like.asyncSendis also thread-safe.
ASIO is not an easy library to understand or to use. Though the concept of continuations and Universal Asynchronous Model are fairly simple to understand, the API and implementation is heavy templated and lacks of documentation. If you have suggestions to improve API and ways to use the utility functions from this library, feel free to open an issue.