API Design for C++ Martin Ry
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Somewhat later I had the pleasant experience of writing C++ code with Qt. Jul30 2011 4 Comments Written by ali.tabatabaei. Other good resources for API design are Chapter 4 “Designs and Declarations” from “Effective C++” by Scott Meyers [3], and “Effective Java” by Joshua Bloch [4]. Prevent each new release to completely destabilize existing usages. Based on hearsay, Qt is quite complicated and hackish inside, but what it presents to the outside is pure delight in terms of API design. Book Description The design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of end-user. I am designing a C/C++ plugin architecture for a solution which comprises of 3 components: a client level; a core level; a visualization level. Since C++ is extensible, one could actually create their own std::basic_streambuf derived class which works with file descriptors, and attach it to an std::ostream, which can then be used with anything that works with a stream for output. An anonymous coward just provided a link to API compliance checker. For C++/Java/.NET, provide custom exception classes. So far I'm just implementing the http-server itself, but designing it so that a typedef will turn it into a fastcgi server instead. A promise that you will support that functionality for the lifetime of the API. Every public element in your API is a promise. The Nokia Qt library provides a cross-platform application and UI framework for C++. Don't Overpromise (from the book API Design for C++). The goal when designing an API is to prevent the amoeba shaking effect - e.g. If you are designing a C API, have each function return a success/error code. So I decided to start on my webspeed-project doing a http/fastcgi server. Proper API Design requires testing and verification. This requires standard unit testing as well, as something special - testing for binary compatibility There is a backward binary compatibility checker for shared libraries in C/C++.