On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:40 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jerry Hamby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use Apigee UserGrid, also known as App Services. I love it and I won't >> go back. >> http://apigee.com/docs/app_services >> >> I use to do Coldfusion CFCs and MySQL before I discovered the power and >> flexibility NoSQL type databases and REST statements. >> All the open APIs use REST, so this works very well except for one >> factor, I can't find a way to do REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements in >> Actionscript. >> My solution was to set up an Amazon EC2 account, run Node.js (Apigee has >> a Node SDK) and establish a socket. So I couldn't completely get away >> from a backend server I did force myself into Javascript. At least my >> costs are very low and I can build apps using web, desktop or mobile >> constructing all >> my business logic inside the client. >> >> I also setup a Amazon S3 account and found some Actionscript code to >> upload my images while storing my image database records on Apigee. >> Apigee also has file storage but they didn't add that feature until after >> I had got the S3 stuff working. >> >> I got a free year from Amazon and Apigee is free up to some ridiculous >> amount of calls per month, I think 3 million. >> I haven't tried Parse or backendless yet. Again the downside to any of >> these services is the same, Flash doesn't have a native way >> to handle REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements. If anyone can show my how to >> get around this issue in Actionscript I would appreciate it. >> >> Maybe finding a solution for this REST gap in Actionscript would be a >> great project for the Apache Flex community. >> >> > There is also an example dealing specifally with Amazon S3 [2] [2] https://github.com/gabriel/as3httpclient/tree/6fa3591aedefbba37590d5a9266014ce96b97723/test/s3 > Have you tried the as3httpclient library? [1] > > Thanks, > Om > > [1] https://github.com/gabriel/as3httpclient/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md > > > >> >> On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Stephen C wrote: >> >> > I am curious to get the groups feelings on these cloud backends with air >> > projects. Like parse and backendless, i have played with these, and i am >> > toying with the idea of moving to one so i do not have to maintain my >> > php/mysql backend and let someone else deal with it. >> > >> > I would also be interested in others. >> > >> > Thank You, >> > Stephen C >> >> >> >
