Question Query external data via XML or SOAP webservices

[Maxicat]

Hello All,

Does Orbiter APIs have built in support for accessing external webservices, for those instances when a source somewhere is exposing data that an Orbiter addon may find useful but is too much data to download to a single player's machine? The addon would pull only the data a player needs at the moment via SOAP requests.

Would a developer need to build their own WSDL support and SOAP processing routines for this or is there anything already in Orbiter APIs to ease this sort of development?

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Maxicat

 

[Urwumpe]

No, but you are also not prevented from including such APIs from other libraries. I use for example JSONCPP in some add-ons without problems.