Seems an interesting idea.
On Sep 26, 10:47 am, Matt <mbroa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > Has anyone successfully used web2py to develop an app that does not > use a database backend, but instead operates on a system using xmlrpc > calls? > > Our current approach was to simply ignore web2py's models completely, > putting all the functionality in the controllers and views. The > problem with this approach is you begin to run into massive > duplication of information that would usually be stored in models. I > am interested specifically in two things: > - encapsulate schema information to (among other things) provide > proper data validation > - ease of form generation > > Implementing a new fake database backend seems to be overkill here > because we only need such a small subset of functionality offered by > the DAL. Any suggestions would be welcome! > > Thank you, > Matt
