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

[bsquared]

On 11/08/2012 02:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:
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>> On 11/08/2012 09:56 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:
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>>>> On 11/08/2012 09:47 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>>>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, bsquared wrote:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>> Seemed like some of the work had been done here.
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>>> 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.
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>> Thank you for your insight.
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> 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.
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> Michael.
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I agree.  I intend to study that unit in more detail.  The end result I 
want is to transform json as a string or stream to a map.  I don't think 
it will be too difficult.  My first thought was to use  TJSONDeStreamer 
and TJSONStreamer from fpjsonrtti. Then I became distracted by all the 
shiny factory stuff in WST. -)

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Regards,
Brian