Hi all,
I've spent some time reading the available documentation on web2py
(plus some more). I'll start by saying that I like a lot of things I'm
seeing. Still, there are a couple of weird questions that I'd like to
ask:
1. Routing
According to the documentation URLs are solved according to the
following rule:
protocol://netloc/application/controller/function[(/arg)*][?vars]
My question is: how difficult would be to eliminate the function part
and basically route the request to a method defined in the controller
corresponding to the HTTP request method name (i.e. GET -> get, POST -
> post, PUT -> put, etc.)?
As far as I can tell, for a WSGI deployment the URL parsing happens in
gluon.main.wsgibase, but I am wondering if there are other places I
should look for.
Note: I am looking to build a very RESTful app and I'd like to have
this clear convention in my app.
2. Models and Data Access
This part is a bit more complex to describe, but I hope you'll bare
with me for a couple of paragraphs.
Currently the web2py models are very data centric (please keep in mind
that I'm not saying that this is good or bad):
db.define_table('name', SQLField(...)
What I'd actually like would be to hide this part behind an object
centric approach. I am aware of the fact that basically the approaches
are quite different (ORM vs ActiveRecord), but I'm wondering if some
metaclass magic would be able to allow me to preserve the current
implementation while offering an object oriented perspective. A very
basic example would be the data access layer implementation available
in Google App Engine:
Model.gql('query')....
Simply put the meta-magic will just have to hide the db functions
behind some static Model methods.
Question: do you think that this is possible? how difficult would this
be?
So far these are the only 2 reasons that I haven't signed yet for
web2py. I also believe that 1st idea would be helpful to other web2py
users looking for RESTful apps, while the 2nd one can be seen just as
'syntactic sugar' (there may be other small benefit like intellisense
support in IDEs, readability, refactoring, etc.)
Looking forward to your answer(s),
./alex
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Alexandru Popescu
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