Boost C++ application development cookbook : recipes to simplify your application development / Antony Polukhin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polukhin, Antony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Boost C plus plus application development cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Learn to build applications faster and better by leveraging the real power of Boost and C++ About This Book Learn to use the Boost libraries to simplify your application development Learn to develop high quality, fast and portable applications Learn the relations between Boost and C++11/C++4/C++17 Who This Book Is For This book is for developers looking to improve their knowledge of Boost and who would like to simplify their application development processes. Prior C++ knowledge and basic knowledge of the standard library is assumed. What You Will Learn Get familiar with new data types for everyday use Use smart pointers to manage resources Get to grips with compile-time computations and assertions Use Boost libraries for multithreading Learn about parallel execution of different task Perform common string-related tasks using Boost libraries Split all the processes, computations, and interactions to tasks and process them independently Learn the basics of working with graphs, stacktracing, testing and interprocess communications Explore different helper macros used to detect compiler, platform and Boost features In Detail If you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you. Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string, numbers to numbers and more. Managing resources will become a piece of cake. You’ll see what kind of work can be done at compile time and what Boost containers can do. You will learn everything for the development of high quality fast and portable applications. Write a program once and then you can use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android operating systems. From manipulating images to graphs, directories, timers, files, networking – everyone will find an interesting topic. Be sure that knowledge from this book won’t get outdated, as more and more Boost libraries become part of the C++ Standard. Downloading the example code for this book. You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.PacktPub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.PacktPub.com/support and register to have the code file.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Starting to Write Your Application

Introduction

Getting configuration options

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Storing any value in a container/variable

Storing multiple chosen types in a container/variable

Using a safer way to work with a container that stores multiple chosen types

Returning a value or flag where there is no value

Returning an array from a function

Combining multiple values into one

Binding and reordering function parameters

Getting a human-readable type name

How to do it

Using the C++11 move emulation

Making a noncopyable class

Making a noncopyable but movable class

Using C++14 and C++11 algorithms

There's more.

See also

Chapter 2: Managing Resources

Managing local pointers to classes that do not leave scope

Getting started

Reference counting of pointers to classes used across functions

Managing pointers to arrays that do not leave scope

Reference counting of pointers to arrays used across functions

Storing any functional objects in a variable

Passing function pointer in a variable

Passing C++11 lambda functions in a variable

Containers of pointers

Do it at scope exit!

Initializing the base class by the member of the derived class

Chapter 3: Converting and Casting

Converting strings to numbers

Converting numbers to strings

Converting numbers to numbers

Converting user-defined types to/from strings.

How to do it...

Converting smart pointers

Casting polymorphic objects

Parsing simple input

Parsing complex input

Chapter 4: Compile-Time Tricks

Checking sizes at compile time

Enabling function template usage for integral types

Disabling function template usage for real types

Creating a type from a number

Implementing a type trait

Selecting an optimal operator for a template parameter

Getting a type of expression in C++03

Chapter 5: Multithreading

Creating a thread of execution

Syncing access to a common resource

Fast access to common resource using atomics

How it works.

There's more...

Creating work_queue class

Multiple-readers-single-writer lock

Creating variables that are unique per thread

Interrupting a thread

Manipulating a group of threads

Initializing a shared variable safely

There's more..

Locking multiple mutexes

Chapter 6: Manipulating Tasks

Before you start

Registering a task for an arbitrary data type processing

Making timers and processing timer events as tasks

Network communication as a task

Accepting incoming connections

Executing different tasks in parallel

Pipeline tasks processing

Making a nonblocking barrier

Storing an exception and making a task from it.

Getting ready

Getting and processing system signals as tasks

There is more...

Chapter 7: Manipulating Strings

Changing cases and case-insensitive comparison

Matching strings using regular expressions

Searching and replacing strings using regular expressions

Formatting strings using safe printf-like functions

Replacing and erasing strings

Representing a string with two iterators

Using a reference to string type

Chapter 8: Metaprogramming

Using type vector of types

Manipulating a vector of types

Getting a function's result type at compile time

Making a higher-order metafunction

Evaluating metafunctions lazily

See also.

Converting all the tuple elements to strings.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 25, 2017).

OCLC:

1004395121