[Grok-dev] shortcut to methods

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

Our XMLRPC view class already does this. Maybe you can take a look at
that implementation to get something for json?

Christian

Am Sonntag, den 18.03.2007, 20:00 +0100 schrieb Tim Terlegård:
> What do you think about adding xmlrpc-ish method support for a more
> general case?
> 
> Simplest is to take an example. Let's say we have a chat
> application and the client uses ajax/json to ask about new messages and
> to tell the server it wants to say something. The old way would be to
> implement a class for each json call.
> 
> class NewMessages(grok.View):
>     grok.context(Chat)
> 
>     def update(self):
>         # do some stuff
> 	self.json = { ... }
> 
>     def render(self):
>         simplejson.dumps(self.json)
> 
> class Say(grok.View):
>     grok.context(Chat)
> 
>     def update(self):
>         ...
> 
>     def render(self):
>         ...
> 
> I would like to do it like this:
> 
> class ChatView(grok.MethodViews):
>     grok.context(Chat)
> 
>     def newmessages(self):
>         # do some stuff
>         return simplejson.dumps(self.json)
> 
>     def say(self, message):
>         # do some stuff
>         return simplejson.dumps(self.json)
> 
> In the case of html the one method per view is just fine. But for json,
> xmlrpc, rest and perhaps other cases it's more convenient to have one
> class with several methods where each will be registered as a view.
> 
> The implementation is almost already there as the xmlrpc grokker uses
> this approach.
> 
> Tim
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