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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Spinetti, Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Building a RESTFul server for Linux

It is time to understand how to develop a RESTful server for the most widespread OS for server-side. This is what I will show you in this recipe.

Getting ready

This recipe uses DMVC, a Delphi open source framework based on WebBroker that allows you to create powerful RESTful web services. You can find the project code here: https://github.com/danieleteti/delphimvcframework.

Version 3.0.0 of DMVC has brought several innovations, and a very useful one is that it is not necessary to download the Git repository to use it. Just download the latest version (https://github.com/danieleteti/delphimvcframework/releases) as a .zip file and you'll be okay.

Once you have downloaded the zip file...