Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] defer, dispatch and post differences?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] defer, dispatch and post differences?
From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-05 15:21:15

When I had a query regarding the newer standalone boost, I emailed Chris
directly. He very helpfully replied promptly and fully.

I have always felt that the documentation for ASIO is... terse. Perfect for
Mekons, Terminator T2000's and Tron. Not so friendly for human beings.

Every piece of information you need is there, exactly once, with not even
one character more than is necessary to aid understanding. It took me a few
readings for most of it to sink in. I'm still not sure how to code a
service's handler invocation properly, so that it will work with futures,
handler functions and co-routines (I can at least cause the handler to be
posted to the correct io_context and ensure that the context stays
'running' for long enough for it to be executed.

I would love to see an example of a fully-fledged asio service
implementing, for example, the client side of an http-protocol-socket where
the transport is running on a background thread.

There are some books on the subject. But they cost, you know, money...

On 5 January 2018 at 15:45, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:52 AM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte via Boost-users
> <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Although it is not supposed to be up to date, I think the description
> given
> > in the documentation of the executor library
> > that was proposed by the ASIO author is probably the best to understand
> the
> > difference between these:
> > https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/executors
>
> It really would be nice if Chris Kohlhoff (author of Boost.Asio) could
> step forward and provide complete detail on how these functions are
> used, including a few examples such as usage in a composed operation
> implementation.
>
> Thanks
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