Cutelyst 0.6.0 is released

February 13, 2015 by Daniel Nicoletti

Cutelyst, the Qt/C++ web framework just got another step into API stabilization.

Since 0.3.0 I’ve been trying to take the most request per second out of it, and because of that I decided to replace most QStrings with QByteArrays, the allocation call is indeed simpler in QByteArray but since most of Qt use QString for strings it started to create a problem rather than solving one. Grantlee didn’t play nice with QByteArray breaking ifequal and in the end some implicit conversions from UTF-8 were triggered.

So on 0.6.0 I’ve replaced all QByteArray usage in favor of QString, and from the benchmarks of hello world the difference is really negligible.

Another big change I actually took today was to change the Headers class that is used on Request and Response, the keys stored there were always in camel-case style and split by dashes, and if you want to get say the User-Agent in a Grantlee template it won’t work as dashes will break the variable name, so now all keys are lower casa and words are separated by underscores. Allowing for {{ ctx.request.headers.user_agent }} in Grantlee templates.

Some changes were also made to make it behave more close to what Catalyst does, and fixed a bunch of bugs from last release.

On my TODO list still need to:
Write a chained dispatcher to allow a more flexible way of dispatching.
Write tutorials, yeah this is boring…
Write QML integration to allow for writing the application logic in QML too!

This last one would allow for something like this:

Application {
    Controller {
        Action {
            attributes: ":Path(hello)"
            onRequest: {
                ctx.response.body = "Hello World!"
            }
        }
    }
}

Download here

Have fun!