IACore (Independent Architecture Core)

The Battery-Included Foundation for High-Performance C++ Applications.

📖 Description

IACore is a high-performance, battery-included C++20 foundation library designed to eliminate "dependency hell." It bundles essential systems—IPC, Logging, Networking, Compression, and Async Scheduling—into a single, coherent API.

Originally developed as the internal core for IASoft (PVT) LTD., it is now open-source to provide a standardized bedrock for C++ applications.

✨ Features

• 🚀 High-Performance IPC: Shared-Memory Ring Buffers with wait-free SPSC synchronization.
• 🌐 Networking: Integrated HTTP/HTTPS client (wrapper around cpp-httplib with automatic Zlib/Gzip handling).
• 🧵 Async Scheduler: A job system with high/normal priority queues and work stealing.
• 💾 File I/O: Memory-mapped file operations and optimized binary stream readers/writers.
• 📦 Compression: Unified API for Zlib, Gzip, and Zstd.
• 📜 Logging: Thread-safe, colored console and disk logging.
• ⚡ Modern C++: Heavily uses C++20 concepts, std::span, and tl::expected for error handling.

🛠️ Integration

IACore is built with CMake. You can include it in your project via FetchContent or by adding it as a subdirectory.

Note: On Windows, you must have VCPKG installed and the VCPKG_ROOT environment variable set, for OpenSSL support.

CMake Example

add_subdirectory(IACore)

add_executable(MyApp Main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(MyApp PRIVATE IACore)

📦 Dependencies

IACore manages its own dependencies via CMake's FetchContent. You do not need to install these manually:

• JSON: nlohmann_json, glaze, & simdjson
• Networking: cpp-httplib
• Compression: zlib-ng & zstd
• Utilities: tl-expected & unordered_dense

💡 Usage Examples

1. IPC (Manager & Node)

IACore provides a manager/node architecture using shared memory.

Manager:

#include <IACore/IPC.hpp>

// Spawns a child process and connects via Shared Memory
auto nodeID = manager.SpawnNode("MyChildNodeExe");
manager.WaitTillNodeIsOnline(*nodeID);

// Send data with zero-copy overhead
String msg = "Hello Node";
manager.SendPacket(*nodeID, 100, {(PCUINT8)msg.data(), msg.size()});

Node:

#include <IACore/IPC.hpp>

class Node : public IACore::IPC_Node {
public:
    void OnSignal(uint8_t signal) override {
        // Handle signals
    }

    void OnPacket(uint16_t packetID, std::span<const uint8_t> payload) override {
        // Handle packets
    }
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    // The connection string is passed as the first argument by the Manager
    if (argc < 2) return -1;
    
    Node node;
    // Connect back to the manager via Shared Memory
    if (!node.Connect(argv[1])) return -1;
    
    while(true) {
        node.Update();
    }
    return 0;
}

2. Async Jobs

#include <IACore/AsyncOps.hpp>

// Initialize worker threads (hardware_concurrency - 2)
IACore::AsyncOps::InitializeScheduler();

// Schedule a task
IACore::AsyncOps::Schedule *mySchedule = new IACore::AsyncOps::Schedule();

IACore::AsyncOps::ScheduleTask([](auto workerID) {
    printf("Running on worker %d\n", workerID);
}, 0, mySchedule);

// Wait for completion
IACore::AsyncOps::WaitForScheduleCompletion(mySchedule);

3. HTTP Request

#include <IACore/HttpClient.hpp>

IACore::HttpClient client("https://api.example.com");
auto res = client.JsonGet<MyResponseStruct>("/data", {});

if (res) {
    std::cout << "Data: " << res->value << "\n";
} else {
    std::cerr << "Error: " << res.error() << "\n";
}

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3).