Hello, This is what came to my mind a second ago (maybe two) after reading James Bennett's blog entry 'Django tips: get the most out of generic views'[0].
Wouldn't it be nice to have generic views (REST APIs) for: - Filesystem operations (on *nix for a start). Loose coupling with Python's OS module. - Subversion interface (e.g. for keeping templates or translation under revision control) using pysvn[1]. - RDF data (for any purpose, really!) You could store metadata about anything, anywhere - for example using Sparta[2] or straight RDFLib[3]. Imagine the leverage of being able to define RDF triples (or even inferential statements...) with generic views. Hey, what about interfacing to DCMI Metadata Terms[4]? And while we're at it, why not replace Django's URL.conf with RDF graphs hooking namespaces? - Python Imaging Library operations[5]. - Relaying Ma.gnolia, Flickr or any other proprietary web service's API calls to django's generic views. Google Calendar, Yahoo Finance, YouTube... Especially the REST-oriented services would be relatively easy to implement. How about extending URL.conf with proprietary namespaces. - OpenID, Geodata... Complicated or simple (a calculator?), you name it. I just set up a Google Code project[6]: http://code.google.com/p/metaapi/. Something like 'A set of Django generic views relaying to proprietary web service APIs or Python modules'. Please, share your views on my twisted approach. I would really appreciate that. Since this is all very fresh, I would really enjoy anyone to share suggestions, thoughts, code, etc. Best regards, bin [0] http://www.b-list.org/ [1] http://pysvn.tigris.org/ [2] http://www.mnot.net/sw/sparta/ [3] http://rdflib.net/ [4] http://dublincore.org/ [5] http://effbot.org/zone/pil-index.htm/ [6] http://code.google.com/p/metaapi/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
