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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The JSON and HTTP protocol


The payload format for invoking web services were once monopolized by the XML format. The SOAP-based services mostly support the XML format. With the advent of REST-based services, developers use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the payload format.

 

 

The following table shows a comparison between XML and corresponding JSON object:

XML

JSON

<person>   <firstName>John</firstName>   <lastName>Smith</lastName>   <age>25</age>   <address>     <streetAddress>21 2nd     Street</streetAddress>     <city>New York</city>     <state>NY</state>     <postalCode>10021</postalCode>   </address>   <phoneNumber>     <type>home</type>     <number>212 555-1234</number>   </phoneNumber>   <phoneNumber>     <type>fax</type>     <number>646 555-4567</number>   </phoneNumber>   <gender>     <type>male...