Re: Framework recommendations for web service?
Phillip B Oldham wrote: So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? web.py is pretty slim (not to be confused with web2py). Pylons isn't very large, depending on what you call essential. j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Framework recommendations for web service?
What we *do* need is a lightweight, simple framework that will allow us to create a RESTful interface and throw code together fast. We'll probably go with SQLObject (unless we can extract the ORM from django - lazy evaluation would be very useful), and we're just looking for something fast and light to sit between that and the thrift interfaces we'll create. So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? Have you looked at CherryPy? It's very simple to get up and running and can be changed to go through Apache if you need it to be fast. I don't think RESTful interfaces are built in but I know people have succesfully built RESTful apps on top of CherryPy. Also plans for REST in CherryPy 3 look promising. Here is a post I ran across from one of the contributers. Hey there, CherryPy 3 is currently under brainstorming before being first draft. There some feature we do want such as the ability to change the URL dispatching at will depending on what is required for a given application. One dispatching rule I do want is the one based on HTTP verbs. So it might take a few months to get there but eventually it will be a built-in :) - Sylvain -- Ivan Ven Osdel Senior Software Engineer http://datasyncsuite.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Framework recommendations for web service?
I don't think RESTful interfaces are built in but I know people have succesfully built RESTful apps on top of CherryPy. Also plans for REST in CherryPy 3 look promising. Here is a post I ran across from one of the contributers. Hey there, CherryPy 3 is currently under brainstorming before being first draft. There some feature we do want such as the ability to change the URL dispatching at will depending on what is required for a given application. One dispatching rule I do want is the one based on HTTP verbs. So it might take a few months to get there but eventually it will be a built-in :) - Sylvain My apologies, it appears that post was from 2006! -- Ivan Ven Osdel Senior Software Engineer http://datasyncsuite.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Framework recommendations for web service?
web2py (not to be confused with web.py although both of them are excellent) comes with XMLRPC, XML, JSON and RSS API. You can find an XMLRPC example here: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/default/examples#xmlrpc_examples The web2py source (including the optional web based interface) fits in 1.3MBytes. Massimo Phillip B Oldham wrote: So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? web.py is pretty slim (not to be confused with web2py). Pylons isn't very large, depending on what you call essential. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Framework recommendations for web service?
Phillip B Oldham wrote: We're looking at the next phase of development for our webapp, and the main focus will be to move the core from the app to a web service so other systems can use the data we've gathered (we're thinking along the lines of the XML API of Highrise from 37Signals). Its possible that we'll extend the service to allow access via vanilla XML, JSON, and YAML at some point, however we've decided to use Facebook's Thrift for connectivity initially to support as many techs as possible and also because our web interface for the app is written in PHP. As we're extracting the core we'll be translating it to Python to make use of the wealth of well-structured libraries and hopefully make the project shorter. However, we've hit a snag in choosing a framework around which to rebuild the service. It seems the more popular frameworks (django, turbogears) are all focused on providing web content. Since our core will be using thrift to communicate, we don't need templating, feeds, admin pages (django), or ajax (turbogears). What we *do* need is a lightweight, simple framework that will allow us to create a RESTful interface and throw code together fast. We'll probably go with SQLObject (unless we can extract the ORM from django - lazy evaluation would be very useful), and we're just looking for something fast and light to sit between that and the thrift interfaces we'll create. So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? You want thin and fast with little cruft and a focus on interfaces, look at Twisted. -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
