[Development] [Feature Request] Websockets

[Kurt Pattyn]

Well,

it is a fact that Qt has little to no native support for 'cloud' based client and server 'protocols', like REST, WebSockets, SOAP, aso. So, it would indeed be a nice addition to have support for the most popular 'protocols'.
Should we have something like a QNetworkAccessManager with pluggable protocols, or do we create a protocols module with just independent classes?
I prefer the latter but the classes should at least have some consistent API.


On 16 Aug 2013, at 19:10, Matt Broadstone <mbroadst at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gna.org> wrote:
>> On 16/08/13 03:41, Matt Broadstone wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Kurt Pattyn <pattyn.kurt at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:pattyn.kurt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hi,
>> >
>> >     I opensourced a Qt based module that implements the web socket
>> >     protocol. The repository can be found here:
>> >     https://github.com/KurtPattyn/QWebSockets.
>> >     I have 2 questions:
>> >     1. Is there any interest in adding this to Qt?
>> >     2. If so, should this be added to QtNetwork or is a add-on preferred?
>> >
>> >
>> > Perhaps it would be best to have something like a qtprotocols addon. I'm
>> > also interested in maybe getting qjsonrpc pushed upstream to the
>> > qt-project, there has been some interest in the community and I think it
>> > could benefit from more eyes on it. I'm also in the process of writing a
>> > somewhat more streamlined STOMP client for qt that could live there as
>> > well.
>> 
>> Are you talking about https://bitbucket.org/devonit/qjsonrpc ?
>> The nice thing if the 2 projects belongs to the same addon is that they
>> can use each other, right? In that case, it would be possible to add a
>> QJsonRpcWebsocketServer without adding external dependencies.
>> 
> 
> Yes I am.
> 
> Sure, they could use each other but I'm not sure how much you gain there. I haven't really looked into the websocket standard, but I'm not sure it shares many similarities with jsonrpc, please correct me if I'm wrong. I was simply suggesting that there seem to be a number of protocol implementations for Qt and they might be best served grouped in a new addon module (qjsonrpc, qwebsockets, qstompclient, qxmpp, etc). 
> 
> Matt
> 
>  
>> My 2 cents,
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> > Matt
>> >
>> >     Best regards,
>> >
>> >     Kurt Pattyn
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