Day 17: How a Client-Side Connector Unifies Local and Remote JSON-RPC Calls

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This post explains the client-side Connector layer in a JSON-RPC framework, which lets front ends call the server without handling plumbing themselves. The Connector is placed between the screen-facing DataObject and the server dispatch, so the screen only needs to request a save. Tasks such as method addressing, identity headers, transport selection, encoding, and time zone conversion are centralized instead of repeated at each call site. Return values and errors are also restored to typed results and exceptions in this one place. The core logic sits in a single execution path, ExecuteAsync on ApiConnector, which wraps the request and response handling.

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