[Grok-dev] Re: shortcut to methods

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>  > > The implementation is almost already there as the xmlrpc grokker
>  > >  uses this approach.
> 
>> Our XMLRPC view class already does this. Maybe you can take a look at
>> that implementation to get something for json?
> 
> Please do note that a few months ago I tried exactly this and got 
> terribly lost in the zope publishing machinery, and gave up.

The trick is to register variations of this class where the view's 
browserDefault() method each time points to a different method, or 
implement a generic browserDefault() method in the base class that 
inspects the last URL segment and maps that to a method.

> Note also that instead of 'MethodViews' I think you should go all the 
> way, and have a grok.JSON view instead, analogous to grok.XMLRPC. This 
> would take care of serialization of return values to JSON automatically, 
> instead of you having to write simplejson.dumps(self.json) in every 
> single method.

+1

Note that this doesn't have to be part of core Grok. It could be a 
separate package, e.g. megrok.json.

> If you have other use cases besides JSON for MethodViews, please share 
> them with us.

I've been playing with KSS in Grok and have come up with a similar need. 
While for regular browser views it makes sense to have each view be a 
separate class, it feels verbose for Ajax / JSON.


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