Retrieval and processing of data from remote servers

Data that lives server sided is typically retrieved via web service interfaces, either RESTful or SOAP APIs that are on the server side often built and operated using API gateway technologies: swagger, OAUTH2, JSON, or XML with relevant supporting technologies (f.ex WSDL). An increasing amount of APIs uses GraphQL.

A Qt solution to access such data needs to include a mechanism to manage authentication, generating correctly formed requests to the APIs (including versioning), and processing of the data received into data structures that are easily worked with on the Qt side (value types, item models etc), and sending Qt data structures to the server.