C++ web framework like spring for Java

Question

Is there any web framework in C++ which is like Spring for Java, i am currently working on an application which is in the web domain. Our existing applications are all developed in c++, and we are looking for some framework which has a small learning curve and provides exciting features. Has anyone come across such a framework. Please let me know.

Judson

Have a look at this similar thread, #746809 – Resist

Spring is not a web framework, Spring MVC is. Hence, DI is a Spring IoC thing, not of Spring MVC. IMO, you should say Spring MVC, as you are interested in web frameworks. Or ask for IoC container, altogether. – Resist

I think PHP started as a C++ web framework. – Fabrizio

Answer 1

I just found ffead-cpp while browsing similar threads, can anyone evaluate this framework or has any idea whether this would be a suitable choice. I think it already answers a few of my questions. Can you guys comment?

Judson

the framework is sill in the initial phase, but i love the way its designed, so it would serve as a good starting point. – Judson

Answer 2

If its DI you are looking for; Dependency injection in C++ is not really done a lot, because although you can inject a pointer in to a class, its not easy to say who's gonna free it. There is already a SO discussion here .

Anastomosis

SO doesn't host discussions :) – Zolly

@LimitedAtonement SO may wish that is so, but they certainly host discussions – Engorge

Answer 3

I think the opensource project 'Drogon' is what you want. Drogon can be found in github, Here's the descript of Drogon:

Drogon is a C++14/14-based HTTP application framework. Drogon can be used to easily build various types of web application server programs using C++. Drogon's main application platform is Linux, it also supports Mac OS/UNIX. Its main features are as follows:

• Use a non-blocking I/O network lib based on epoll (kqueue under MacOS/FreeBSD) to provide high-concurrency, high-performance network IO;
• Provide a completely asynchronous programming mode;
• Support Http1.0/1.1 (server side and client side);
• Based on template, a simple reflection mechanism is implemented to completely decouple the main program framework, controllers and views.
• Support cookies and built-in sessions;
• Support back-end rendering, the controller generates the data to the view to generate the Html page, the view is described by a "JSP-like" CSP file, the C++ code is embedded into the Html page by the CSP tag, and the drogon command-line tool automatically generates the C++ code file for compilation;
• Support view page dynamic loading (dynamic compilation and loading at runtime);
• Provide a convenient and flexible routing solution from the path to the controller handler;
• Support filter chains to facilitate the execution of unified logic (such as login verification, Http Method constraint verification, etc.) before controllers;
• Support https (based on OpenSSL);
• Support WebSocket (server side and client side);
• Support JSON format request and response, very friendly to the Restful API application development;
• Support file download and upload;
• Support gzip compression transmission;
• Support pipelining;
• Provide a lightweight command line tool, drogon_ctl, to simplify the creation of various classes in Drogon and the generation of view code;
• Support non-blocking I/O based asynchronously reading and writing database (PostgreSQL and MySQL(MariaDB) database);
• Support asynchronously reading and writing sqlite3 database based on thread pool;
• Support ARM Architecture;
• Provide a convenient lightweight ORM implementation that supports for regular object-to-database bidirectional mapping;
• Support plugins which can be installed by the configuration file at load time;
• Support AOP with build-in joinpoints.

Gibb

Answer 4

I would also recommend Oat++ which is designed exactly for your use case:

• same project structure as Java Spring
• cross-platform
• Supports swagger
• Authorization flow
• zero dependency

Lighterage

Answer 5

The closest thing I know of -- and I have no first-hand experience, I've only heard about it -- is a framework called Autumn.

Contrastive

Answer 6

I tried RESTINIO modern c++ web framework.. This is well designed. Worth a try. https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio

Stentorian