On 9 September 2013 19:50, S Berder <sber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gents, > to sum it up, arguments made and details of how I see the > implementation of a response/request encode/decode framework: > > * need a pluggable interface so current content-types are supported > (`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`, `multipart/form-data`), new > types (`application/json`), custom and future types > (`application/vnd.foobar+json` anybody? See > http://developer.github.com/v3/media/#api-v3-media-type-and-the-future > for example, `application/msgpack`, `application/protobuf`, > `application/capnproto`, etc). > * decoder/encoder map (content-type, decoder) should be smart to > handle patterns like `text/*` or `application/*xml*` and match things > like `Accept: application/json, text/plain, * / *` > * choice of decoder would be made on the Content-Type header, maybe > supporting a raw by default so data is just passed in case of unknown > content type. > * decoder/encoder should be available through `request` and `response` > objects. > * decoded data structure (python object) would be stored in `request.data` > * first step is to support requests, next step is to handle responses > with the same pluggable functionality and coherent API. > * A sensible default for response Content-type would be `text/html; > charset=UTF-8`. It should be made available through a setting entry > anyway > > You should also have access to the decision made by the data parser as to which parser was used, instead of having to infer it yourself from the content type header.
> Some questions though: > > * why keep data and files separated, I see no good reason for this > except mimicking PHP's structure. An uploaded file comes from a named > input, I hope to find it in request.data (why do a common structure > otherwise). I might be missing something but nothing indicates a real > need for this in django/http/request.py > True, there's some added complexity [small as it is] in forms because File fields need to look elsewhere for their values. > * isn't more or less any data sent to your backend representable as a > dict or object with dict access modes? I try to think about > occurrences where some data would not have a 'name'. > > I frequently send JSON lists of data to my APIs... -- Curtis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
