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Cleanest way to manage unique objects in C++? (self.learn_programming)

submitted 5 months ago by drem to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I would like to store these http headers in classes:

Host: developer.mozilla.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://developer.mozilla.org/testpage.html
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:36:04 GMT
If-None-Match: "c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0fff2a9199f722e3a621a"
Cache-Control: max-age=0

As you can see, many have unique data (numbers, strings, list of strings). I would like to:

store a header name
store list of possible options for that header (or store if it's a number)
read an input header and store and return the found option / list of options / number
make adding new types of headers as easy as possible

Is making hard coded classes for every type of header viable? How would this be done in the cleanest way possible?

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[–] pennomi 2 points 5 months ago

So for example in “requests”, a popular http framework in Python, there’s a class for the Response object. On that object you can access the special header dictionary at response.headers. Check the docs here under the section Response Headers

Basically they make a special dictionary that allows headers to be case-insensitive, and combining headers that are provided twice.

But they also provide a special property response.encoding which derives from the Content-Type header, just for convenience.

Hopefully that all makes sense.