[fpc-pascal] Re: RESTful JSON: Your thoughts about implementation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:

> On 11/08/2012 09:56 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/08/2012 09:47 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I thought I would put this out to see what helpful information I could
>>>>> gather.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am in need of some JSON and HTTP functionality.  I am thinking about
>>>>> using some pieces from WST and I was looking for some input on this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I am doing is pulling data from a JSON-RESTful web application
>>>>> and storing it in SQLite as Key / Value Pairs along with some meta
>>>>> data.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This data will be pushed back to same web application on some interval.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Additionally, I would like cross-platform compatibility between
>>>>> Linux/Windows{,-mobile?}/Android.
>>>> 
>>>> Why do you need WST for this ? if it is REST (something WST knows
>>>> nothing about), then you'll work just fine with only the fpJSON and
>>>> synapse stacks ?
>>>> 
>>>> Michael.
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>>> 
>>> I was looking at the TJsonRpcBaseFormatter as well as the factory
>>> implementations *_http_protocol units.
>>> 
>>> Seemed like some of the work had been done here.
>> 
>> These protocols are aimed towards RPC, which is not something I
>> associate with REST implementations, so your solution seems confusing.
>> 
>> Without more details it is hard to give advice...
>> 
>> Michael.
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>
> After some rudimentary testing I believe that TJsonRpcBaseFormatter is not 
> suitable for this implementation.  Although I may draw inspiration from the 
> code.
>
> Thank you for your insight.

You may want to try the fpjsonrtti unit to transform objects into RTTI and vice versa.
I use it myself heavily to implement data traffic in a webserver.

Michael.