Using Web Services API for restful web service client code

Question

I need to create a client for a RESTful web service using C++. Is the Web Services API a reasonable choice to implement such a client or is it designed more for building services on the server? Are there better alternatives?

Thanks,
Jeff

Answer 1

Hi Jeff,

The Windows Web Services were not built to support creation of clients for RESTful web services. With the WWS API you can create both clients and services that use SOAP for message format. What you can do is to use WinHTTP to send and receive HTTP messages to RESTful service and then either use an XML parser such as XMLlite or MSXML to parse the message or create your own parser if it is JSON or other non-XML based encodings of the message. Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Nikola

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Answer 2

Hi Nikola,

Thanks for pointing me back to WinHTTP. In my haste I thought I read that it was no longer available, but a more careful reading revealed that the statement only applied to version 5.0.

Jeff