Hi pbreit and thanks for the reply. So web2py is not the preferred way to go as DAL needs a scheme? Is there no way to integrate DAL in a dynamic way?
Regards, Christian Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012 schrieb pbreit : > My guess is it's NoSQL, probably Mongo which seems to be the preferred DB > behind a lot of these "real-time" JavaScript frameworks. > > > On Sunday, June 3, 2012 2:35:34 AM UTC-7, Christian wrote: >> >> Hello group, >> >> I found a backend service, mostly for mobile apps, called parse.com. >> Looking at their REST documentation (https://parse.com/docs/rest), it >> looks like one can e.g. dynamically generate different kind of objects, >> which get persistet (see "creating objects" in the docs to see what I >> mean). These objects can get relationships to other objects and can also be >> queried. So if the client posts GameScore or GameScores, both are valid >> (but different) objects (in different tables?) and get persisted, >> My questions: how looks sth. like this on the model side? How is this >> done? How to model general tables and still make them queryable. Or does >> the model generate tables dynamically? Could something like this be modeled >> with DAL? >> On the controller side: could such a dynamic model be made available via >> sth like @request.restful? >> >> I would be happy for any hint, as I have no idea, how this is done! >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Christian >> >> P.S.: I also found a open source clone, which rebuilds the iOS client >> library and the server with node and MongoDB, if this might be of any help. >> I do not speak JS and have no clue about mongo. >> https://github.com/eaigner/**DataKit <https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit> >> >>