[PROTON-1161] c++: better interface to connection_engine.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: proton-0.13.0
• Component/s: cpp-binding
• Assignee: Alan Conway
• Reporter: Alan Conway
• Created: 18/Mar/16 16:40
• Updated: 17/Jun/16 13:35
• Resolved: 23/Mar/16 19:00

Description

The connection_engine interface was over-simplified to support reactor-style IO frameworks, and did not efficiently support proactor frameworks.

Change the API to support both with no copies imposed by the connection_engine (allow read/write direct to/from proton buffers)