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It supports and encourages a rich set of client–server tools. The most widespread use of the CLI standard is the basis of the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) specification, which is widely used to allow applications to transparently access database systems from different vendors. The current version of the API, ODBC 3.52, incorporates ...
An API can also be related to a software framework: a framework can be based on several libraries implementing several APIs, but unlike the normal use of an API, the access to the behavior built into the framework is mediated by extending its content with new classes plugged into the framework itself.
Web SQL Database is a deprecated web browser API specification for storing data in databases that can be queried using SQL variant. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The technology was only ever implemented in Blink-based browsers like Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge , and WebKit-based browsers like Safari .
Database abstraction layers reduce the amount of work by providing a consistent API to the developer and hide the database specifics behind this interface as much as possible. There exist many abstraction layers with different interfaces in numerous programming languages. If an application has such a layer built in, it is called database ...
This message may contain the client's Client ID (Option 61, containing a unique value, traditionally a MAC address), the IP address that the server is offering, the subnet mask, the lease duration, and the IP address of the DHCP server making the offer. The DHCP server may also take notice of the hardware-level MAC address (as specified in the ...
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
The Geolocation API does not provide the location information. The location information is obtained by a device (such as a smartphone, PC or modem), which is then served by the API to be brought in browser. Usually geolocation will try to determine a device's position using one of these several methods. GPS (Global Positioning System)
Socrata exposes an OData API. Microsoft Azure exposes an OData API. Oracle Analytics Cloud can connect to an OData API; SAP NetWeaver Gateway [37] provides OData access to SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Warehouse. IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale REST data service can be accessed by any HTTP client using OData. [38]