API Design for C++

Martin Reddy

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780443222207
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Applied Mathematics
• Index: Mathematics

API Design for C++, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development, from initial design through implementation, testing, documentation, release, versioning, maintenance, and deprecation. It is the only book that teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including interface design, versioning, scripting, and plug-in extensibility. Drawing from the author's experience on large scale, collaborative software projects, the text offers practical techniques of API design that produce robust code for the long-term. It presents patterns and practices that provide real value to individual developers as well as organizations. The Second Edition includes all new material fully updated for the latest versions of C++, including a new chapter on concurrency and multithreading, as well as a new chapter discussing how Objective C++ and C++ code can co-exist and how a C++ API can be accessed from Swift programs. In addition, it explores often overlooked issues, both technical and non-technical, contributing to successful design decisions that produce high quality, robust, and long-lived APIs. It focuses on various API styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries. A discussion on testing strategies concentrates on automated API testing techniques rather than attempting to include end-user application testing techniques such as GUI testing, system testing, or manual testing.

• Teaches the strategies of C++ API development, including design, versioning, documentation, testing, scripting, and extensibility
• Includes extensive code examples that illustrate each concept, with fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation available online
• Covers various API styles and patterns, with a focus on practical and efficient designs for large-scale, long-term projects
• Includes updated URLs and ensures all code examples continue to work with modern compilers and supporting tools

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Author biography
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Qualities
• 3. Patterns
• 4. Design
• 5. Styles
• 6. C++ usage
• 7. C++ revisions
• 8. Performance
• 9. Concurrency
• 10. Versioning
• 11. Documentation
• 12. Testing
• 13. Objective-C and Swift
• 14. Scripting
• 15. Extensibility
• Appendix A: Libraries
• References
• Index