Web Services
Many problems can be solved by offering a centralized software service to a number of remote clients. Since the 90s, this kind of networking has been called the World Wide Web, and the centralized applications are called web services. Web clients have evolved to include browsers, mobile applications, and other web services, creating a sophisticated, interlinked network of computing. Providing a web service involves solving several interrelated problems. The applicable protocols must be followed, each with its own unique design considerations. One of the foundations for providing web services is the various standards that define the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
One of the use cases for HTTP is to provide web services. In this case, the standard HTTP requests and responses will exchange data in formats other than HTML and images preferred by browsers. One of the most popular formats for encoding information is JSON. We looked at processing JSON documents in the...