restcl : A focused REST Client for Modern C++

Motivation

Design a library where JSON is a first-class API metaphor for interacting with RESTful servers.

• Focused on REST interactions with JSON. Limiting allows us to simplify the usage and make it feel very C++ instead of the C-like API of Win32 or OpenSSL.
• Modern C++ features: C++20 is required!
  • Visual Studio 2022
  • Windows version uses WinHTTP library and HTTP/2
• Header only
• Use native implementations for the actual IO: Windows support uses WinHttp library.
  • Initial implementation is for Windows using WinHTTP.
  • Alternate implementation using OpenSSL tbd.
• Support for literals to allow _GET, _DELETE, etc. Using the siddiqsoft::httpqrequest::literals namespace.
• Support for std::format and concepts.
• Be instructional and use as little code as necessary.
• The focus is on the interface to the end user.
• Performance is not the objective.
• Simplicity (hide the underlying implementation)

Roadmap

• Switch to CMake build
• Do a UNIX version, of course!