I recently gave a presentation about the use of cloud and REST APIs from Delphi at the Italian Delphi Day conference, at the end of June. Among the various demos, I made some experiments using APILayer REST APIs. In case you don’t know, APILayer is a company that is part of Idera, like Embarcadero.
Why REST APIs
Before we explore specific APIs and demos, I’d like to discuss the relevance of…
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This blog post will include the replay, slides, and more after the webinar.
The Survey…
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RAD Server Steps
1. Using RAD Studio, Delphi or C++ Builder:
File | New | Other | RAD Server | RAD Server Package | Click…
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Using TRESTRequestDataSetAdapter to update data via a RESTful Server API
April 20, 2022
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REST APIs and VERBS
REST APIs are typically created to use the different HTML verbs (POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE) to define the…
