C++ API Benefits

• Allows user access to an object-oriented programming interface.

• Memory management is taken care of by the C++ API.

  • No worrying about SE_Stores.

• Simplified methods for accessing fields, rather than C structure based access.

• Error handling advantages

  • Can always trap API exceptions without a lot of code.
  • Exception mechanism handles clean up on errors:
    • Outstanding object references
    • Closing transmittals

• Possible to extend API class functionality:

  • Class inheritance
  • Operator overloading

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