Do you mean a JSON web API? If so , sounds like you're talking about a Service Oriented Architecture.
To be honest, the *easiest* JSON APIs i've ever written were in Pylons/ Pyramid. You have full control of the request, and all you need to do is return a dict from a view/handler that is decorated to render json(p). In terms of your app structure: 1) The @view_config decorator is pretty powerful and lets fine-tune the scenarios in which a view is rendered. ( I wanted to write 'context' in there, but there is an argument to the constructor called 'context' with a pyramid-specific meaning ). You could conceivably have a single codebase that just responds with different templates and available methods. 2) I wouldn't have Pyramid call a Web API to process the data quite yet. That's typically something you do at scaling time because it has quite a bit of overhead in administration and maintenance. I'd probably just construct the public web-based API methods to wrap some helper functions into a package in app/lib that does the real work -- and which the webapp directly calls as well -- having them return dicts. when you're ready to scale, you just have to change where you request the dicts -- or how they're generated. There are a handful of posts in this list and stackoverflow that talk about customizing views for devices. On Mar 26, 6:42 pm, Day-V <da...@daveyharding.com> wrote: > I'm learning python with pyramid and MongoDB. I have prior code > experience, so learning Python has been really easy (love it!), the > documentation for Pyramid is incredible as well. > > In summary, I want to build a python-based API which performs all > tasks and responds with JSON objects, and then use pyramid to connect > to the python-based API for I/O. Depending on device-type, I would use > different views. > > My goal is to write a set of functions making up an API for my > application. Using Pyramid I would like to be able to build separate > front-ends that access the same, single API, so that I'm writing > functionality into one python-based core, and just returning views > that are applicable to whatever device type is accessing (phone, > tablet, computer). > > Can anyone provide me with tips for the best way to accomplish this, > or links to any blog or forum posts that may already cover this? > > Thanks for your help! > Davey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
