Quickstart

aka my ADD makes writing anything more in depth somewhat difficult.

1. Download, build, install

• Install flatc from Flatbuffers
• git clone this repo
• make all
• sudo make install

2. Set up your project however you wish

No really, I don't prescribe cmake, make, or anything, just know how to call flatc and flatrpcc.

3. Write your flatbuf schema

• See Flatbuffers Tutorial and Flatbuffers Writing a schema

• Pay special attention to "RPC interface declarations" in the latter document, this project will transform these into your services and calls.

4. Generate your code

• flatc --cpp --gen-mutable --gen-name-strings --gen-object-api --gen-compare --reflect-names --cpp-ptr-type std::shared_ptr --cpp-std c++17 $FILENAME Note that shared_ptr as ptr-type is kinda required at the moment, this may go away later on, I prefer it, but I understand not everyone will; object API is required, again this may be optional in the future once I get flatter server side calls working.
• flatbufcc $FILENAME

5.

• See examples/simple/greeter_server.{hpp,cpp} for an example on how to use the generated server stubs and implement your methods.
• You can use the client as is, or you can subclass it to add further functionality, it's up to you.