WebSockets Publisher and Control Socket with JSON Validation

This library wraps the wspubctrl library with JSON validation capabilities. It provides an easy way to:

• Stream JSON data over websocket.
• Accept JSON control messages and reply with status, over websockets.
• Automatically validate incoming and outgoing messages.

The websocket pub/sub and ctrl logic is provided by wspubctrl. The wrappers in this project simply do JSON decoding and validation.

JSON validation is done using jws, which is just a thin wrapper around nlohmann/json and pboettch/json-schema-validator.

The networking backend is based on Simple-Websocket-Server, a websockets client/server wrapper based on Boost.ASIO.

Getting Started

Build

These instructions assume you are using cmake.

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_TESTS=ON ..
$ make

or, to include in your project

In your CMakeLists.txt, add:

add_subdirectory(path/to/jwspubctrl jwspubctrl)
add_executable(myserver myserver.cpp)
target_link_libraries(myserver jwspubctrl)

Windows

See wspubctrl for required dependencies.

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -D BOOST_ROOT='C:\path\to\boost' -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_TESTS=ON ..
$ cmake --build .

Examples

To build examples, configure with

cmake -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON

Run examples:

Server:

cd build
./time_server ../examples/time_server/schemas/publish.json ../examples/time_server/schemas/ctrl_request.json ../examples/time_server/schemas/ctrl_reply.json

CLI Client:

cd build
./time_client localhost:5554 /ctrl /pub ../examples/time_server/schemas/publish.json ../examples/time_server/schemas/ctrl_request.json ../examples/time_server/schemas/ctrl_reply.json

HTML/JS client: Open examples/time_client.html in a web browser.