Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of BluePrintREST

Timestamp:

12/31/08 04:25:30 (16 years ago)

Author:

Fran Boon

Comment:

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BluePrintREST

@@ -4 +4 @@
 
 Basic approach for the S3 architecture is to have a Web Services backend & a Javascript client front end.
-
 RESTful APIs make this easier.
 
-Web2Py generates fairly RESTful URLs anyway for the user-facing HTML pages, such as /sahana/pr/display_person/4
+Web2Py generates URLs in this format:
+{{{
+/application/ccontroller/function/arg1/arg2?var1=x,var2=y
+}}}
+These are generally fairly RESTful anyway, e.g.:
+{{{
+/sahana/gis/add_feature
+/sahana/gis/list_features
+/sahana/gis/display_feature/1
+/sahana/gis/update_feature/1
+}}}
+Is there much benefit in chaning to URLs like:
+{{{
+/sahana/gis/feature/create
+/sahana/gis/feature/list
+/sahana/gis/feature/list_add
+/sahana/gis/feature/display/x
+/sahana/gis/feature/display/x?format=json
+/sahana/gis/feature/update/x
+}}}
 
-We can extend this for exporting raw data in other formats using the optional vars: /sahana/pr/display_person/4?[xml|csv]
-
-This, obviously, requires us to build-in support into the Controllers, which should be done within the framework to make it easy for module writers to take advantage of.
+We want to be able extending this for exporting raw data in other formats using the optional vars: /sahana/pr/display_person/4?[xml|csv]
 
 Web2Py already supports export as JSON, CSV & RTF. Hope to extend this to XML using http://www.reportlab.org/pyrxp.html
 
-Some discussions:
- * SQLRow to JSON: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/dfb65087574c24f1
+It would be best for us to add support to the framework to make it easy for module writers to have this functionality within their controllers.
+
+Discussion of changes to Web2Py to make it more RESTful:
  * http://www.wellbehavedsystems.co.uk/web2py/examples/rest.html
  * http://www.wellbehavedsystems.co.uk/web2py/examples/rest_alt1.html
 
+New SQLROW to JSON function:
+ * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/dfb65087574c24f1
 
-
-Web2Py currently doesn't support HTTP PUT/DELETE/UPDATE (only GET).
+NB Web2Py currently doesn't support HTTP PUT/DELETE/UPDATE (only GET).