This week I mainly focused on the back-end. In this post I would also like to discuss about some Wt classes since Wt currently lacked community support. First and foremost, I would like to discuss about curl. Since the project did not involve any user interface, I had to use Read more…
This week I was working on designing web APIs. An API was an “application programming interface” and it was needed to exchange information between different parties. The API paradigm that I focused on was Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Previously, the API paradigm used by AESTE was Representational State Transfer (REST). Read more…
In the world of software development, there is always problems. For developers, we may have problems using a certain third party tool, in which maybe it has quite a few bugs or is not configured the way we want it too, because these tools are made by other humans after Read more…
I learned the way of testing a specific function in a program which is built with REST API. Basically every function is assigned to be accessed with either one of four commands (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). By using CURL command, I can access and test the functionality of a particular Read more…
This week I worked on the HMAC-based one-time password (HOTP) key which is used to encrypt the message. The encryption is achieved using a key and a counter. The HOTP code is based on a work done by one of the previous interns. As Dr. Shawn pointed out, the main Read more…
So.. I was using system() to perform CURL requests in my application. There were a few downsides to this:- Error handling of response. Messy codes. My boss talked about using the cURLpp library to replace the existing system() curl mechanism. So this week I tried my hand on it in Read more…
This week, we Aeste interns had much fun where our boss brought us for movie on Wednesday and a farewell lunch for Peter (bye Peter!) on Friday. As for me, this would be the second last blog post. Using Boost::property_tree Back on topic… I mentioned last week that I was Read more…