Fost 5 release 5.16.12.45005 now out

The tags were pushed a few days ago now.

There is one potentially breaking change in the updates to the nullable type. Now that std::optional is in C++17 it seems sensible to move towards that. The new nullable implementation is a wrapper around std::experimental::optional, but retains the old nullable methods as well, but marks them as deprecated. It also adds a couple of methods that are in the upcoming std::optional but aren't in std::experimental::optional.

As part of the nullable changes we also stopped bringing in the std::rel_ops namespace. This could be a breaking change where you've been inadvertently relying on it for implementations of things like operator !=.

We've also improved the error handling in the fostlib::utf::save_file such that it should now throw if there is a problem saving the file. There's also a new file based log sink called panoptes which features built-in file rotation.

We didn't do the changes to the fost-orm library this time around, but expect them for the next release.

Building on Linux

git clone --branch=5.16.12.45004 --recursive git@github.com:KayEss/fost-hello.git
cd fost-hello
Boost/build 62 0
Boost/install 62 0
hello/compile
dist/bin/hello-world-d

Download locations

Applications

• beanbag — Stand alone transactional JSON database server — git@github.com:KayEss/beanbag.git
• beanbag-seed — Seed project for giving you a starting point to develop web applications using Beanbag — git@github.com:KayEss/beanbag-seed.git
• fost-hello — Sample seed project — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-hello.git
• mengmon — Stand alone web server — git@github.com:KayEss/mengmom.git

Libraries

• f5-cord — First version of a new string library —
• f5-threading — Preview of the first Fost 5 library which includes help for threading.
• fost-aws — Amazon AWS and OpenStack — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-aws.git
• fost-android — Eclipse project for Android that allows Fost 4 and Beanbags to be used on mobile devices — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-android.git
• fost-android-ndk — The native code for Android. Includes required parts of Boost configured to use the standard Android build system.
• fost-beanbag — Transactional JSON database — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-beanbag.git
• fost-base — Build system and core libraries — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-base.git
• fost-internet — Internet protocols, servers & clients — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-internet.git
• fost-meta — All libraries in one wrapper — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-meta.git
• fost-orm — Object/Relational mapping — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-orm.git
• fost-postgres — PostgreSQL — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-postgres.git
• fost-py — Python (2.x) bindings — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-py.git
• fost-web — Web server libraries — git@github.com:KayEss/fost-web.git

Detailed change log

fost-base

• Extend exceptions::file_error to also take a boost::system::error_code.
• Add error detection into save_file.
• Refactor nullable to look much more like the upcoming std::optional.
• Remove using namespace std::rel_ops.
• Change the fostlib::nullable class to be implemented on top of std::experimental::optional.
• Exceptions caught in FSL_MAIN are now printed to stderr rather than stdout.
• Fix a problem for Boost 1.62.0
• Add the Panoptes file logger as the first of a set of optional loggers.
• Start to make use of the Unicode support in f5-cord.
• Make hashing digester and hmac digester movable.
• Add a set member to the jcursor that overwrites old values in JSON structures.
• Add logging messages about why a JWT gets rejected.
• We need to have < defined on JSON so do that instead of std::less.
• Added std::less overload for JSON with new fost/json header.

fost-internet

• Add a cookie header parser.
• Replace older Boost code with std::function and lambdas.

fost-orm

• Record jsondb saves and handle rename errors better.
• Add a missing lock when adding database post-commit hooks.
• Refactor the jsondb save process to make it more clear what the actual process is.

fost-postgres

• Add support for passing a password for the PG DSN.

fost-web

• Load shared objects before setting up the logger so that optional loggers can be loaded.
• Add a generic 200 response.
• Web view execution now gives a stack trace when an exception is thrown.
• Improved error output where a view name is mis-configured.
• Removed the old router function as it's been replaced by view::execute.
• Add a middleware that logs the HTTP request details and some response details.

fostgres

• Add default lookups for the Postgres connection string parameters.

cord

• Start to add support for Unicode with UTF-8 decoding.

threading

• Allow for fetching of the Boost.ASIO work pool thread count.
• lower_bound on tsmap takes the key value by reference not by copy.
• Added a missing header.
• Removed a dependancy on algorithms header.