Technical requirements

The requirements for this chapter include Delphi Enterprise or higher and InterBase 2020 running on your main Windows development machine. While RAD Server can be installed on either Windows or Linux, only Windows will be discussed in this chapter, with references to the Further reading section for information on deploying to Linux.

We will also make modifications to our cross-platform app, MyParks, and screenshots from both iOS and Android will be included—it is up to you which of those platforms you choose to use with RAD Server during your study of this topic.

This chapter makes heavy use of REST server concepts, specifically the four most popular HTTP request methods—GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. If you're not familiar with these terms, they refer to the type of query made to a web server. When you browse a website, you're making a GET request to the server for a specific page. When you fill out a web form and submit it, the browser...