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Inside HandleSpecialURL

How to use Web Edition for your own REST API

Issue: 12.5 (September/October 2014)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software Xojo/Real Studio Plugins.
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Starting Page Number: 35
Article Number: 12506
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12506project.zip Updated: 2014-09-02 10:53:17

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http://127.0.0.1
http://127.0.0.1
http://www.xojo.com/blog/en/2014/08/handlespecialurl-changes-in-2014r21.php

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With the web edition framework you get a full web server for handling web requests for free. You can use it with the HandleSpecialURL event in the app class. In our example, we use this event to handle requests with a REST-like API. We use JSON to package data for the transfer. This is different from a SOAP web service which uses XML for transfer.

Client

First, the client. We take a new project and name it client. On the main window we place a listbox and a canvas. The listbox will show the list of image file names and the canvas shows the image (see Figure 1).

We add an HTTPSocket to the window and name it sock. Now in the open event of the window you can start a query to the server to get the list of files:

sock.Get "http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/images"

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