On Tuesday 19 January 2010 17:28:03 Kevin Horn wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know of any such layer. Then again, I don't know of any such > > layer in any language/framework. If you can provide an example, we can > > try to get such done using TG. > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm new to TurboGears and starting to read the book now. > >> > >> We are leaning toward a cloud-based database such as Google's > >> BigTable, AmazonDB or other. > >> > >> Instead of connecting to an SQL database via SQLObject or SQLAlchemy, > >> is there a technique to connect or map to RESTful web services? In > >> other words, TurboGears could be the GUI layer, and web services > >> running on Google AppEngine or Amazon could provide the data layer for > >> a more cloud-like approach. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Neal Walters > > Such a layer usually isn't really needed when dealing with something as > (relatively) simple as REST services. If I was doing soemthing like this > though, I would probably write a wrapper (probably just a convenience > function) around urllib or whatever http client library I was planning on > using. Writing a truly generic interface might be pretty tricky, but > writing one specific to your application should be pretty simple, I think.
You can take a look at what I did for the soundcloud API. http://github.com/soundcloud/python-api-wrapper It's pretty generic, albeit JSON-centric. It might be a starting-point. Diez
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