API Design for C++ by Martin Ry

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

The style of software programming interfaces can impact the behavior, abilities, security, and ease of use of stop-consumer applications. During the design of Maya, the c++ API was built in to maximize its extensibility. I stumbled on When I first started learning C++ (back in the bad old days) I was convinced that any 1st year student could design a better programming language. Before you struggle with how to version your API, I want you to know how to design your API to avoid future incompatibilities. 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. Compare this to what you can do with C++ mixins, there's a lot more to it than just delegating interface members to other objects. I will focus here on MEL and the Maya c++ API. Published at Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:45:43 GMT. The scripting languages MEL and Python are key to Maya being open and extensible. After reviewing hundreds of actual SaaS APIs, many up to par and others distinctly . 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. Http://www.apibook.com/blog/archives/95 API Design for C++. Now we have the same API for the simple (and invasive) scenario, but with minimal effort, we have made it possible to use non invasive and smart approaches. After publishing The Web API Checklist, I received comments (#1, #2) regarding API versioning. The number of Web APIs is growing rapidly (there are over 2,000 APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory), especially with the popularity of Software as a Service. Public class Customers : Versioned { }. I've been thinking a lot about APIs and their design recently.