WeatherForecast

Weather forecast for the selected list of cities using third-party libraries

Technical specification

• Display the weather forecast for several days ahead (the default value is set by the config)

• Update with some frequency (set by the config)

• Switch between cities using the "n", "p" keys

• End the program by Esc

• To increase / decrease the number of forecast days by pressing the "+", "-" keys

• The list of cities, the update frequency, the number of forecast days must be defined in the config

An example of a running console app

Weather data sources

• Open-Meteo for the weather forecast
• Api-Ninjas to determine the coordinates by the name of the city

Third-party libraries

1. C++ requests to work with HTTP requests
2. Nlohmann's json to parse JSONs
3. FTXUI to create a user interface
4. RapidXML to process the config in XML format

Config example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<MyWeatherConfiguration>
    <ListOfCities>
        <City>Saint Petersburg, RU</City>
        <City>Miami, US</City>
        <City>Tokyo, JP</City>
    </ListOfCities>
    <UpdateFrequency>15</UpdateFrequency>
    <NumberOfDays>3</NumberOfDays>
</MyWeatherConfiguration>