Never quite happy with what we give them, marketing has decided we need to add yet another feature to the BigProject:
- Requirement 20: It should be possible to remotely monitor the temperature reading
To implement this requirement, we will use WebSocket. A WebSocket is a bi-directional connection over TCP (the first part of TCP/IP) that is commonly used with web applications. Because we are learning about Qt, we will use Qt's WebSocket support.
Websockets require two halves—a server that provides data and a client that consumes the data. Every time new data is available, the server will send the data down the WebSocket to the client using JSON. The client will then determine how it wants to handle the data.
The more I work with Qt, the more I enjoy it. It feels like the Qt Framework was developed by real engineers who wanted to solve real...
