Seeking C++ Project Contribution Guidance
TLDR Peka wants to contribute to a project and seeks resources. Kishore Nallan provides initial guidance and recommends starting with a simple task on the Typesense project. Peka encounters a setup error well into the process.
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Nov 25, 2021 (26 months ago)
Peka
03:13 PMI am looking to contribute to the project. I have basic knowledge of C++. Could anyone please list out some books, resources etc that i should first go through before delving into the project?
Kishore Nallan
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03:19 PMPeka
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03:22 PMKishore Nallan
03:22 PMThis Dockerfile is used by Typesense to build release builds, so you can just follow this to install the dependencies on Ubuntu: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/single-index-concurrency/docker/development.Dockerfile
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Peka
03:26 PMPeka
09:32 PMNov 26, 2021 (26 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
04:56 AMThis is where we process the fields: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/single-index-concurrency/include/field.h#L197
We need to add a check for field name duplication in that function. The function already does other validations, so you can see how to return an error, which will be automatically handled by higher layers to send back to the API. The error code like "400" follow HTTP status code, which is "Bad Request" in the case of 400. Once you have a basic skeleton, you can try testing it on the API, and if that works I can then explain about adding a test for this.
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Kishore Nallan
05:02 AM-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -- might have to add a flag for dev builds to not do that. For e.g. the Apple target does not statically link to those like the Linux target here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/single-index-concurrency/CMakeLists.txt#L156Nov 30, 2021 (26 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
03:43 AMPeka
07:56 AMKishore Nallan
08:10 AMKishore Nallan
08:11 AMbuild.sh which is without Docker.1
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