Fost 4 release 4.10.06.39877 now out

This release contains mostly a lot of work on the HTTP client (user agent) and the HTTP servers. For the Mac we now also support 32/64 bit fat binaries, and the iOS (iPhone/iPad etc.) support is much better.

If you want to get started the best place to look is the fost-hello example project.

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.10.06.39877 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost/build
hello/compile
dist/bin/hello-world-d

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=dist/lib
dist/bin/hello-world-d

svn co http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-hello/tags/4.10.06.39877 fost-hello
cd fost-hello
Boost\build
hello\compile
dist\bin\hello-world-gd

The next release is due out on September 21st.

Download locations

Everything is available through our Subversion repository. Below are the locations for the tagged releases for Fost 4.10.03.39008 components.

• fost-aws — Amazon Web Services support — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-aws/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-base — Core libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-base/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-internet — Internet networking libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-internet/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-meta — Everything — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-meta/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-orm — Database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-orm/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-postgres — PostgreSQL database libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-postgres/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-py — Python language bindings — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-py/tags/4.10.06.39877
• fost-windows — Microsoft Windows specific libraries — http://svn.felspar.com/public/fost-windows/tags/4.10.06.39877

Detailed change log

• Exception handling
  • Allow us to throw not implemented exceptions based on Boost system errors.
• String handling
  • Added coercion from string::hex_string to std::size_t
• Fost authentication
  • Added a utility function to add the authentication to a user agent.
  • Fixed the signature so that it signs the query string when there is no post data.
• Parsers
  • Removed the parser instances because they're not thread safe.
• Host
  • Added JSON coercions for fostlib::host.
  • A host can now be configured with a port number as the service.
  • Added Python binding for the host class.
• URL
  • The host and port number are now mutable fields of the URL.
  • Fixed a bug where port numbers weren't properly shown in URLs converted to strings.
  • Query string values may now contain forward slashes and colons.
  • Fixed a bug where query strings were being thrown away when URLs were parsed.
  • The query string can now be any sequence rather than only a map of key/value pairs.
• TCP/IP
  • Most errors should now end up with a fostlib::exceptions::exception which allows the error to be annotated.
• HTTP client/server
  • Fixed a bug in chunked encoding that was causing the chunks to end up in the data block in the reverse order.
  • The user agent request can now be built from passed in MIME data.
  • The response body can now be detached from the client response as can the request body from the server.
  • The HTTP server now accepts additional verbs, more correct resource paths and can return all status codes supported by HTTP 1.1.
  • The fget example now allows us to save to a file by using an extra parameter.
  • There is a new MIME type binary_body for handling in-memory binary MIME data.
  • Added more allowable characters to the resource parser for HTTP requests.
  • The server request now supports handling of bad requests.
  • The HTTP client post and put short cuts now accept all data types supported by the request.
  • Changed the type of the server request query string to match that of the URL.
  • The parsing of the beginning of the HTTP request by the server is now protected by a mutex because Boost.Spirit is not thread safe.
  • Corrected behaviour for 304 responses.
  • Added the 207 response code
  • URLs may contain bangs (!)
  • The request data can now be retrieved from the Python request object.
  • The user agent body is now returned as a Python string rather than as a Unicode string. Interpretation of the data is now up to the Python code.
• POP3 client
  • Improved the error reporting by annotating exceptions in as many places as possible.
• fget example
  • Now supports the use of FOST authentication through the -authentication, -key and -secret command line switches. There's also a -user switch to handle authentication where the REST end point supports impersonation.
• MIME
  • Improved handling of headers that don't have values.
  • Added support for multiple headers of the same name.
• Object pointers
  • Implemented more of the pointer dereferencing operators.
• Model initialisation
  • There is now an explicit type for the parameter used to initialise a model instance. This will allow the available information to be extended in a sane manner.
• Mac builds
  • Added support for Postgres installation into /usr/local/pgsql/
• Code layout
  • Moved all non-private fost-internet headers out of include/fost/detail
  • Moved a number of fost-orm headers into much more sensible locations
  • Changed the layout of the internet Python code.
  • Moved internal headers in fost-py to a better location