Hi all. So, it's about time that WebOb came to 1.0. For 1.0 I'd like to settle the API as much as possible. But I'd also like to move further to getting WebOb used for more frameworks. I don't expect that to happen before 1.0, but if there are API changes that will make that easier later, then maybe we can get those in.
While I haven't tracked ongoing changes to frameworks, I did put together the differences I am aware of in APIs here: http://pythonpaste.org/webob/differences.html Some of them are fairly trivial, and could be managed through subclassing (e.g., req.raw_post_data vs. req.body -- semantically identical, just different names). Are there API changes that would help people consider WebOb for other frameworks? The main ones I can think of is req.FILES, separating out file uploads from other POST fields. Also then there's the issue of what kind of object represents files. The finer details of individual objects are also important, things like the API of req.GET/req.POST (which are views on ordered dictionaries, and are represented somewhat differently in different frameworks). Also I'm planning on introducing a BaseRequest (and *maybe* BaseResponse) class, that removes some functionality. Specifically for Repoze they'd like to remove __getattr__ and __setattr__ (which has some performance implications), and maybe other things are possible (though removing writers is infeasible, IMHO, as read and write access are not easily separated, and it would require too much code duplication). (Incidentally WebOb is now on bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/ianb/webob/) -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
