CONFIGURING SERVICE ENDPOINTS IN NATIVE CLIENT APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system and method for facilitating efficient interaction between a client device and a server. An example method includes receiving at a server, a request for server configuration information sent to the server by a client device, and then employing a first web service in communication with the server to convey configuration information about a server to a client device in response to the request message received therefrom by the server. The configuration information includes information pertaining to known capabilities that may be offered by the server to the client device. Generally, embodiments described herein provide various features for facilitating configuring service endpoints in native client applications at runtime, thereby enabling implementation of changes to server-side components that a client application invokes or communicates with, without needing to change the client application.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying program instructions thereon, the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a server, a request for server configuration information, wherein the request is sent to the server by a client device; employing a first web service in communication with the server to convey configuration information to the client device in response to the request, wherein the configuration information includes information pertaining to known capabilities that may be offered by the server to the client device and information pertaining to one or more of at least one first change in web service parameters and at least one second change to web service addresses; and enabling the client device to access the known capabilities at runtime based on one or more of the at least one first change and the at least one second change, wherein access of the known capabilities is independent of updates to a client application running on the client device.