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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marco Cantù Marco Cantù
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts 3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language 4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox 5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library 6. Part 2: Going Mobile
7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey 8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D 9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style 10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems 11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges 12. Part 3: From Data to Services
13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases 14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services 15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends 16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server 17. Chapter 14: App Deployment 18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 19. Index
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Creating a client app for RAD Server

Let’s now create a client application for the REST API we just built with RAD Server. We’ll do this by reusing the UI and some of the code from the previous versions:

  1. Create a new, blank multi-device project and save it as ToDoListEMS in the client folder.
  2. Keep the default name of the main form. It does not matter because in a moment we are going to remove it from the project.
  3. Add to the project the uToDoTypes and uToDoUtils units.
  4. Add a new data module to the client project. Save it as uDMToDoEMS and change its Name property to DMToDoEMS.
  5. Add uToDoTypes to its uses clause in the interface section and copy the five IToDoData interface method declarations from the uToDoTypes unit to the public section of the data module. The class should look like this:
    type
      TDMToDoEMS = class(TDataModule, IToDoData)
      private
        { Private declarations }
      public
      ...
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