I am looking at developing a HTTP-based server for storing and later retrieving internal assets (just files/blobs of data). Clients should be able to connect with a simple HTTP request and retrieve data, or use a RESTful API to store files.
When a file is stored, we will need to make some calls into preexisting C++ code to update our asset database, set up internal linkages, and run various checks (e.g. is the data sane).
We have mountains of existing C++ tech here and it’s not going to be practical to rewrite it in a high-level language, so we’d like to reuse as much of that as we can. However, in our brief research, it seems like putting together a performant HTTP server is absolutely trivial in higher-level languages, and we’d like to use as much off-the-shelf tech as possible for the HTTP server part.
Anyone have any experience/insight with this? We looked at Node.js, and it seemed very powerful, and then we looked at its C++ integration and got scared off. We aren’t going to be able to rewrite all of our low-level tech to be non-blocking, and Node.js seems to require that. Others suggested Ruby, which we have some experience with, but we’ve never added C++ to the mix before. Totally open to other ideas as well.
Thanks guys!
I would use http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ .
Mongoose is written in C and easily integrated into existing code.