Echo Web Server

Introduction

A C++20 echo web server running on Linux.

If a user inputs a name <user> and a message <msg>, the server will reply with <user> said "<msg>".

• Using a YAML-based configuration system, supporting the notification of value changes and parsing containers and custom types.
• Using a customizable logging system, supporting synchronous and asynchronous modes.
• Using auto-expandable buffers to store data.
• Using a state machine to parse HTTP requests.
• Using a thread pool, an epoll and non-blocking sockets to process HTTP requests.
• Using a timer system based on a min-heap to close timed-out connections.
• Unit tests using GoogleTest.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Install and start Docker.

Building

Set the location to the project folder and run:

docker image build . -t <image>

<image> should be replaced with a custom Docker image name.

Running Tests

docker container run <image> ctest --test-dir .. -VV

Usage

Configuration

config.yaml is the default configuration. It will be copied to Docker during the building.

server:
  # The TCP listening port.
  port: 10000
  # The website folder.
  asset_folder: "assets"
  # The maximum alive time for client timers (in seconds).
  # When a client's timer reaches zero and it has no activity, it will disconnect.
  alive_time: 60
loggers:
  - name: root
    level: info
    appenders:
      - type: stdout

Here are two ways to make a new configuration effective.

• Change config.yaml and build a new Docker image.
• Enter an existing Docker container and change build/bin/config.yaml.

See src/log/README.md for more details if you want to change logger configuration.

Running the Server

docker container run -p <container-port>:<host-port> <image>

<container-port> should be equal to server.port in config.yaml. <host-port> can be any available port of the host machine. -p <container-port>:<host-port> binds <container-port> of the container to <host-port> of the host machine.

After the server is running, open a browser and access http://localhost:<host-port> on the host machine to use it.

You can run the following command and access http://localhost:10000 if you are using the default configuration.

docker container run -p 10000:10000 <image>

Unit Tests

The unit tests perform using the GoogleTest framework, consisting of public and private tests.

• Public tests are in the tests folder.
• Private tests are in the same folder as the corresponding modules.

The name of an unit test file ends with _test.

Documents

The code comment style follows the Doxygen specification.

The class diagram follows the Mermaid specification.

Structure

.
├── CITATION.cff
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── Dockerfile
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── assets
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── http-status.html
│   └── index.html
├── config.yaml
├── docs
│   └── badges
│       ├── C++.svg
│       ├── License-MIT.svg
│       ├── Linux.svg
│       ├── Made-with-CMake.svg
│       ├── Made-with-GitHub-Actions.svg
│       └── Made-with-Docker.svg
├── include
│   ├── config.h
│   ├── containers
│   │   ├── block_deque.h
│   │   ├── buffer.h
│   │   ├── epoller.h
│   │   ├── heap_timer.h
│   │   └── thread_pool.h
│   ├── http.h
│   ├── io.h
│   ├── ip.h
│   ├── log.h
│   ├── test_util.h
│   ├── util.h
│   └── web_server.h
├── src
│   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   └── config.cpp
│   ├── containers
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── buffer
│   │   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   │   ├── README.md
│   │   │   └── buffer.cpp
│   │   ├── epoller
│   │   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   │   └── epoller.cpp
│   │   └── thread_pool
│   │       ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │       └── thread_pool.cpp
│   ├── http
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── http.cpp
│   │   ├── request.cpp
│   │   ├── request.h
│   │   ├── request_test.cpp
│   │   ├── response.cpp
│   │   ├── response.h
│   │   └── response_test.cpp
│   ├── io
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   └── io.cpp
│   ├── ip
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   └── ip.cpp
│   ├── log
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   ├── README.md
│   │   ├── appender.cpp
│   │   ├── config_init.cpp
│   │   ├── config_init.h
│   │   ├── config_init_test.cpp
│   │   ├── field.cpp
│   │   ├── field.h
│   │   ├── field_test.cpp
│   │   └── log.cpp
│   ├── main.cpp
│   ├── test_util
│   │   ├── CMakeLists.txt
│   │   └── test_util.cpp
│   └── util
│       ├── CMakeLists.txt
│       └── util.cpp
└── tests
    ├── CMakeLists.txt
    ├── config_test.cpp
    ├── containers
    │   ├── block_deque_test.cpp
    │   ├── buffer_test.cpp
    │   ├── heap_timer_test.cpp
    │   └── thread_pool_test.cpp
    ├── http_test.cpp
    ├── io_test.cpp
    ├── ip_test.cpp
    ├── log_test.cpp
    └── util_test.cpp

Dependencies

• yaml-cpp
• {fmt}

References

• WebServer
• sylar

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.