DelphiMVCFramework
DelphiMVCFramework
Leverage the power of REST and JSON-RPC using the most popular framework for Delphi
About the Book
DelphiMVCFramework is a solid and proven framework to build websolutions. If you ever think to build a distributed system, DelphiMVCFramework is one of the best choice you could do.
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About the Author
About the Contributors
bit Time Professional Software Developer
bit Time Professionals Senior Software Developer
CEO at VEditIndia and Embarcadero MVP
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Reviewers
- Collaborators
- Translations
- What users say about DMVCFramework
- Fetching This Book’s Code
- Using This Book’s Code
- Book Release Notes
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with DelphiMVCFramework
- What you’ll learn
- DMVCFramework is “batteries included”
- Installation of DelphiMVCFramework 3.2.1-carbon
- Your first RESTful server with DelphiMVCFramework
- Your first DMVCFramework-style “Hello World”
- Built-in System Actions
- What’s Next
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Chapter 2: Controllers and routing
- The Router
- MVCPath attribute
- Handling Parameters
- Query-String parameters
- URL mapped parameters
- Multiple Paths for a Single Action
- More about URL Mapped parameters
- Strongly Typed Actions
- MVCHTTPMethod attribute
- MVCProduces attribute
- MVCConsumes attribute
- MVCDoc attribute
- Action Filters
- What’s Next
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Chapter 3: Renders
- What you’ll learn
- The Rendering Phase
- Rendering Data Must be Simple!
- Rendering Objects and List of Objects
- Customize Objects Serialization
- Rendering TStream descendants
- Rendering Nested Objects
- Serializing TDataset descendants
- Rendering Dictionaries
- Rendering images, pdf and other binary contents
- Rendering Exceptions
- Rendering Custom Data Structures
- Support HATEOAS in your APIs
- Deserialization
- Deserialize Simple Objects
- Deserializing List of Object
- Deserializing Hierarchical Structures
- The IMVCList Interface
- Sending Binary Contents
- Using multipart/form-data
- Custom Type Serializers
- Using custom serializer
- What’s Next
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Chapter 4: Municipal Library System - The Database
- What you’ll learn
- The Municipal Library System
- The Database
- What’s Next
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Chapter 5: Municipal Library System - The APIs
- What you’ll learn
- APIs design Overview
- Design an API for the Books Lending System
- The actual APIs
- What’s next
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Chapter 6: Municipal Library System - Creating APIs using Datasets
- What you’ll learn
- The CRUD acronym
- Implementing the API using datasets
- What’s Next
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Chapter 7: Municipal Library System - Creating APIs with MVCActiveRecord
- What you’ll learn
- The ActiveRecord Design Pattern
- ActiveRecord in MVCFramework a.k.a. MVCActiveRecord
- What’s Next
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Chapter 8: Municipal Library System - Complete APIs with MVCActiveRecord
- What you’ll learn
- WebModule Configuration
- Establish a Database Connection
- TAuthorsController
- TControllerBase
- Handling pagination in TCustomersController.GetCustomers
- Terminate a lending
- Users management with TUsersController
- What’s Next
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Chapter 9: Authentication & authorization
- What you’ll learn
- Authentication vs Authorization
- The Authentication/Authorization Subsystem
- Securing an API
- HTTP Basic Authentication
- JSON Web Token Authentication and Authorization
- Accessing Logged User Information
- What’s Next
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Chapter 10: Middlewares
- What you’ll learn
- What’s a middleware?
- The IMVCMiddleware Interface
- Built-In Middleware
- CORS Middleware
- Compression Middleware
- Analytics Middleware
- Trace Middleware
- Static Files Middleware
- What’s Next
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Chapter 11: Municipal Library System - Authentication and Authorization
- What you’ll learn
- How to choose an authentication schema
- Defining a roles system
- Create a Python client
- What’s Next
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Chapter 12: JSON-RPC: why, when and how use it
- What you’ll learn
- JSON-RPC Overview
- JSON-RPC 2.0 Requests
- JSON-RPC 2.0 Notifications
- Response Error Object
- JSON-RPC vs REST
- Publishing PODOs
- The MVCInheritable Attribute
- Inspecting the published methods
- Defining Hooks
- What’s Next
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Chapter 13: Document and test your REST API with the Swagger middleware
- What you’ll learn
- How to use
- MVCSwagSummary attribute
- MVCSwagAuthentication attribute
- MVCSwagParam attribute
- MVCSwagResponses attribute
- MVCSwagJSONSchemaField attribute
- MVCSwagIgnorePath attribute
- Simple Swagger Tutorial
- What’s Next
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Chapter 14: Tips and Tricks
- Tip #1: Redirecting users to a different URL only when are using browser
- Tip #2: Don’t load system controllers
- Tip #3: Remove X-Powered-By Header
- Tip #4: Change or remove the Server Header
- Tip #5: Testing API using Python
- Tip #6: Storing users password
- Tip #7: Use RQL for simple query
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