pyjamas and web2py (it works!)

[mdipierro]

Pyjamas now works great with web2py.

Here is more about it

http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/AlterEgo/default/show/203

Thanks to Like Kenneth Casson Leighton (creator of pyjamas) for all
his help on this matter.

Massimo

[lkcl]

On Feb 8, 6:23 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Pyjamas now works great with web2py.

excellent!

> Here is more about it
>
> http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/AlterEgo/default/show/203
>

> Thanks to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (creator of pyjamas)

well, it was james tauber, originally - i'm now the maintainer and
lead developer, but thank you.

the JSONRPCService class, btw, is truly a total independent JSONRPC
service that has absolutely nothing to do with pyjamas, and so could
equally well be utilised for other web2py projects.

controllers/default.py shows how incredibly easy it is to create a
web2py jsonrpc service (s/pyjamas/jsonservice in both controllers/
default.py and models/pyjamas.py so as to psychologically disassociate
"pyjamas" from "jsonrpc").

literally by sticking the decorator on the front of a function,
magically it's turned into one of the methods of the service.

i presume that by sticking an extra decorator (@auth or such) you'd
have an _authenticated_ web2py jsonrpc service, with as much
simplicity and ease.

of course... good JSONRPC clients are hard to find - at least, they're
damn hard to use well in "pure javascript". personally i wouldn't go
_near_ JSONRPC if it wasn't for the utter simplicity with which
JSONRPC services can be used when you get the pyjamas compiler to
compile the python code into client-side javascript.

however, the web2py jsonrpc service could equally as well be utilised
with a GWT app, if you love java or something.

so the addition of the jsonrpc service to web2py really does open up
the possibilities for web2py quite considerably.

l.

[mdipierro]

so far the only service in web2py was xmlrpc.

I agree with you that jsonrpcservice should also be included.

We need to an extensible uniform interface to deal with these and more
types of services, something similar to what T3 does.

What other popular services are out there and should be supported out
of the box?

This will be in 1.57.

Massimo

[Paul D. Eden]

SOAP comes to mind.

That would allow developers to create web2py apps that serve .NET or
Java SOAP clients. That opens up a lot of integration possibilities.

Paul

[mdipierro]

We do support SOAP and there is a SOAP howto on AlterEgo but SOAP is
too heavy to be included in web2py.
Nevertheless we can develop a common intreface that works with SOAP if
soap is installed.

Massimo

[lkcl]

> What other popular services are out there and should be supported out
> of the box?

full REST support might be a good one to add.

[mdipierro]

Sorry I am slow today. can you make an example?

[Paul D. Eden]

That sounds good.

[lkcl]

On Feb 8, 10:25 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:

> > > What other popular services are out there and should be supported out
> > > of the box?
>
> > full REST support might be a good one to add.

> Sorry I am slow today. can you make an example?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#Example

he he - i've only just started looking it up.
REST is a standard layout - of the URLs - for doing storage and
retrieval of objects into a database. in theory, once you have
implemented RESTful correctly, you only need one bit of client code
(per programming language) to access the one bit of server code (per
programming language), and you're done as far as database is
concerned, cross-platform-wise.

l.