/* * Copyright (c) <2002-2005> * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * a copy of this software and associated documentation files * (curlpp), to deal in the Software without restriction, * including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, * publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, * and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, * subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ /** * \file * Setting and copying options. * */ #include #include #include #include #include #include namespace { const long MyPort = 80; } /** * This example is made to show you how you can use the Options. */ int main(int, char **) { try { curlpp::Cleanup myCleanup; // First easy example. { // The first easiest example is to retreive the content of // a web page and put it in a stream. std::cout << curlpp::options::Url("http://example.com"); // You don't need to use just the standard outputs. You // can use any stream: std::ostringstream os; os << curlpp::options::Url("http://example.com"); } // More elaborate example. { // What the previous example done there was simply // to create a curlpp::Easy class, which is the basic // object in cURLpp, and then set the Url option. // curlpp::options classes are the primitives that allow to specify // values to the requests. curlpp::options::Url myUrl(std::string("http://example.com")); curlpp::Easy myRequest; myRequest.setOpt(myUrl); // Now that all the options we wanted to set are there, we need to // actually do the request. the "perform" method does actually that. // With that call, the request will be done and the content of that URL // will be printed in std::cout (which is the default). myRequest.perform(); // If we wanted to put the content of the URL within a string stream // (or any type of std::ostream, for that matter), like the first example, // we would use the WriteStrem option like this: std::ostringstream os; curlpp::options::WriteStream ws(&os); myRequest.setOpt(ws); myRequest.perform(); // There is some shorcut within curlpp that allow you to write shorter code // like this: os << myRequest; // That would do exactly what the previous code was doing. } // Creation of the URL option. curlpp::options::Url myUrl(std::string("http://example.com")); // Copy construct from the other URL. curlpp::options::Url myUrl2(myUrl); // Creation of the port option. curlpp::options::Port myPort(MyPort); // Creation of the request. curlpp::Easy myRequest; // Creation of an option that contain a copy of the URL option. curlpp::OptionBase *mytest = myUrl.clone(); myRequest.setOpt(*mytest); // You can reuse the base option for other type of option // and set the option to the request. but first, don't forget // to delete the previous memory. You can delete it since the // option is internally duplicated for the request. delete mytest; mytest = myPort.clone(); myRequest.setOpt(*mytest); delete mytest; // You can clone an option directly to the same type of // option. curlpp::options::Url *myUrl3 = myUrl.clone(); myRequest.setOpt(myUrl3); // Now myUrl3 is owned by the request we will NOT use // it anymore. // You don't need to declare an option if you just want // to use it once. myRequest.setOpt(curlpp::options::Url("example.com")); // Note that the previous line wasn't really efficient // because we create the option, this option is duplicated // for the request and then the option destructor is called. // You can use this instead: myRequest.setOpt(new curlpp::options::Url("example.com")); // Note that with this the request will use directly this // instance we just created. Be aware that if you pass an // Option pointer to the setOpt function, it will consider // the instance has its own instance. The Option instance // will be deleted when the request will be deleted, so // don't use the instance further in your code. // Doing the previous line is efficient as this: myRequest.setOpt(myUrl.clone()); // You can retreive the value of a specific option. std::cout << myUrl2.getValue() << std::endl; // Perform the transaction with the options set. myRequest.perform(); } catch( curlpp::RuntimeError &e ) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; } catch( curlpp::LogicError &e ) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; } return 0; }