Cutelyst 2.5.0 released

Cutelyst a C++ web framework based on Qt got a new release. This release has some important bug fixes so it’s really recommended to upgrade to it.

Most of this release fixes came form a side project I started called Cloudlyst, I did some work for the NextCloud client, and due that I became interested into how WebDAV protocol works, so Cloudlyst is a server implementation of WebDAV, it also passes all litmus tests. WebDAV protocol makes heavy use of REST concept, and although it uses XML instead of JSON it’s actually a good choice since XML can be parsed progressively which is important for large directories.

Since the path URL now has to deal with file paths it’s very important it can deal well with especial characters, and sadly it did not, I had tried to optimize percent encoding decoding using a single QString instead of going back and forth toLatin1() then fromUTF8() and this wasn’t working at all, in order to better fix this the URL is parsed a single time at once so the QString path() is fully decoded now, which will be a little faster and avoid allocations. And this is now unit tested 🙂

Besides that there was:

• Fix for regression of auto-reloading apps in cutelyst-wsgi
• Fix csrf token for multipart/form-data (Sebastian Held)
• Allow compiling WSGI module when Qt was not built with SSL support

The last one and another commit were to fix some build issues I had with buildroot, which I also created a package so soon you will be able to select Cutelyst from buildroot menu.

Have fun https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/releases/tag/v2.5.0