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API Design for C++ by Martin Ry

API Design for C++ Martin Ry ebook
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0123850037, 9780123850034
Format: pdf
Page: 446

After reviewing hundreds of actual SaaS APIs, many up to par and others distinctly subpar http://www.apibook.com/blog/archives/95 API Design for C++. As a result, APIs are not well designed or properly built and wind up costing both the vendor and its customers tens of thousands of dollars in ongoing maintenance due to infrastructure costs and the drain on engineering resources. During the design of Maya, the c++ API was built in to maximize its extensibility. Private members are now completely hidden from your public interface. Book Description The design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of end-user. So far I'm just implementing the http-server itself, but designing it so that a typedef will turn it into a fastcgi server instead. I am sharing here my practical experience with C++ projects, but most of these advices also apply to Java. So I decided to start on my webspeed-project doing a http/fastcgi server. Some good advice comes from the developers behind Qt who have corrected some things in their API and described it at: Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs. The scripting languages MEL and Python are key to Maya being open and extensible. (1) Patch-based pipeline design (C++-API or easy-to-use XML editor) and plug-in system to extend available tools with new function (2) Parallel and synchronized processing from multiple sensor devices, e.g. Casablanca is a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. There are striking lessons in failed software architectures, and it all start with API design. For C++/Java/.NET, provide custom exception classes. Therefore, I think it's critical to factor the C/C++ API design so that as much of it as possible is writable in application level python on top of a small core that does the final C++ dispatch. I will focus here on MEL and the Maya c++ API. Based on hearsay, Qt is quite complicated and hackish inside, but what it presents to the outside is pure delight in terms of API design. This allows you to keep your implementation details hidden (and proprietary in the case of closed-source APIs). Somewhat later I had the pleasant experience of writing C++ code with Qt. If you are designing a C API, have each function return a success/error code.