Adam Jones schrieb: > After spending some time looking at the idea for microapps I thought it > might be useful to wrap access to a microapp from within TurboGears > into local and "proxied" controller methods. This allows you to run a > local copy of a microapp in your controller and gather data through > direct method calls or access the data remotely ... again through > direct method calls, this time on the proxy class. > > Anyways, I wrote up the basic idea here: > http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/TurboGearsAndMicroApps
Nice writeup! After reading this, I realized that I did a similar thing to integrate gravatars in my blog application, i.e. I wrote a special controller, that encapsulates access to the gravatar.com URL interface. So you see, this is not limited to Microapps using a REST interface, as long as the remote service exposes an URL interface and delivers results over HTTP, the basic mechanism is the same. I didn't separate the controller into a local and a proxy service, rather I let the local service act as a forwarder if the requested result is not in the local storage/cache. You can check it out in the cblog/widgets/gravatar module of my CBlog app: http://chrisarndt.de/projects/cblog/download/CBlog-20061130.tar.bz2 As another step to ease the usage of remote services in TurboGears websites, this module encapsulate the display of the result in a fitting widget, i.e. an image tag for a gravatar or, for your quote example, a nicely styled <blockquote> element. To use the remote service in you template, you then just have to insert a simple function call, e.g. ${gravatar.display('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', size=40)} I also plan to write something similar for different website thumbnail services, like Alexa, websnapr.com, artviper.net, etc. Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
