XMPP library working with Boost.ASIO

Question

I have a program written using Boost.ASIO. I'm looking for a C++ XMPP client library that could be used with it, that is, a library that already uses Boost.ASIO and that either exposes its internal io_service instance, or that I can initialize with my own existing io_service instance and then just call run() on my io_service.

Apparently Swiften ( https://swift.im/swiften.html ) uses Boost internally, but I can't find any example on how to get the internal io_service.

Any pointer?

Answer 1

According some fragments of source code , Swiften uses Boost internally, but not ASIO part of it. It uses things like shared_ptr , boost::bind , random generator and so on, but not the boost::asio .

And according to sources, Swift::EventLoop has io_service -like interface, but not use it.

So the answer is: no, you cannot extract io_service from Swiften since it do not use boost::asio .

UPD: But, you can use Swiften in separate thread in async manner and then do io_service::post to your own eventloop, but need to write our own wrapper, completion handlers and so on to manage this.