API Calls (Newbe)
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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JLWest · 2020-05-02 23:36

I have written a program that does a successful REST API call.

I have agreed to write a program for a friend that requires several
REST API's and is a lot more complicated. (No good deed goes
unpunished)

I seem to remember in order to make the first REST API program work I
had to install : opensslsockets, fphttpclient, fpjson and jsonparser
in my development directory.

Do I have to ship the four files along with MYProgram.exe for the API
to work his  computer?

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eljo · 2020-05-03 00:53

Quote from: JLWest on May 03, 2020, 01:36:00 amI have written a
program that does a successful REST API call.

I have agreed to write a program for a friend that requires several
REST API's and is a lot more complicated. (No good deed goes
unpunished)

I seem to remember in order to make the first REST API program work I
had to install : opensslsockets, fphttpclient, fpjson and jsonparser
in my development directory.
erm what? It was probably a miss configuration on your part for this
to become mandatory.
Quote from: JLWest on May 03, 2020, 01:36:00 amDo I have to ship the
four files along with MYProgram.exe for the API to work his  computer?
If you mean the ppu/pas files no those are copied inside your exe
during the linking process.
If you mean the openssl dlls then yes he has to have them in his
computer's path somewhere that can be loaded.
If you mean something else please provide at least the filenames so we
can better understand the problem.

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JLWest · 2020-05-03 01:16

found a diretory 'C:\OpenSSL-Win32' so I guess that's the
opensslsockets,

i was the: fphttpclient, fpjson and jsonparser

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eljo · 2020-05-03 01:51

Quote from: JLWest on May 03, 2020, 03:16:40 am found a diretory
'C:\OpenSSL-Win32' so I guess that's the opensslsockets,
No that's the openSSL an open source encryption library used for httpS
and other encrypted communications. That needs to be on your friends
computer.
Quote from: JLWest on May 03, 2020, 03:16:40 ami was the:
fphttpclient, fpjson and jsonparser
those are simple units they are already linked in your exe you
shouldn't bother with those.

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JLWest · 2020-05-03 17:11

Yea. I kinda of remember mow having to install the openlls.

Thank You.