What is the correct term for - server/client database sync via API?
- by Daniel
Forgive the vague question title.
I've been programming mobile apps for 3 years now, and I've got a little too far from the web services and server side code then I probably should have.
Anyway, I'm doing a personal project now and I want to create an web API for it. One of my requirements is to check for updates from my app, so I would send a timestamp to the API.
I've used many APIs that my clients prepared for me and only now am I appreciating their work !
What is the term or technique used to create an API backed by a database which tracks changes via dates/timestamps, basically an effective way for me to query changes occurring since a timestamp.
Simply put, I want that my app can call my API in order to sync new data and changed data from the server, to the app. The app would only have a timestamp of the last time it synced with the server.
Would I have a log table for each data table in my database which adds a record for each change? Then I could query all changes with a timestamp superior to the one passed to the API.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?
