REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS USING A RESTLIKE API

摘要

A computing device executes a client-side instance of an application that supports bi-directional real-time synchronous communication and real-time asynchronous communication with a server computing device by way of an application programming interface (API) that conforms to representative state transfer (RESTlike) design principles. An eventing framework on the server computing device is used to aggregate updates to resources on the server that are requested by the client computing device, and is further used to transmit metadata to the client computing device that indicates which updates are available. Real-time sensitive updates are included in the metadata, and the client computing device can decide when and how to retrieve other available updates. An asynchronous operation is modeled on the server computing device by an operation resource that can modify other resources on the server computing device and cause updates regarding status of the operation to be sent to the client computing device.

主权项

1. A computing device comprising:
a processor module; and a memory that comprises a client-side instance of an application, the client-side instance of the application executed by the processor module, the application supporting real-time synchronous communication and real-time asynchronous communication between the computing device and a second computing device using an application programming interface (API) that is compliant with to a representational state transfer (REST) architecture.