Rails is making an HTML request.
Yes, the A4D json library. They make sending data very staightforward.
If they can work with json, all the better for you. As you know perl
and php have pretty mature functions for working with json. But if XML
is required, maybe the json library would provide a good model for
building an XML library for delivering data?
Michael Check
On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:35 PM, "Bradley D. Perkins" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Michael,
Thanks for the confirmation. I like the idea of sending JSON instead
of
XML, but will need to to check with the developers of the two
systems that
will be 'consuming' the data. One is PHP based and the other is
written in
Perl. From preliminary conversations I believe they want to use either
native SOAP or NuSOAP for the client code.
Is the Rails system actually making a SOAP call or simply an HTTP
request?
re: though not as easy as using the json libraries
You mean the JSON libraries that come with A4D, right?
Thanks,
Brad
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:58:03 -0400, Michael Check
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Brad
We're doing this right now for a system created in Rails. We needed
to access the data in a main 4D db and this turned out to be an easy,
fast way to GET, PUT any data needed.
Instead of XML, we return well-formed data as json. But the XML would
be straightforward (though not as easy as using the json libraries).
In fact, we prefer using A4D because we can adjust the scripts needed
without getting into 4D's method editor and recompiling.
Michael Check
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Brad Perkins<[email protected]>
wrote:
Subject line says it all.
Has any used Active4D or NTK (or event ITK) standalone to develop a
simple web services server? This would not be a public service and
the
interface would be extremely simple (pass in a single known ID) so
WSDL
support would not be required. Is this a lot more complex than
simply
setting the proper headers and returning the result as valid XML?
Most are probably asking why not just use 4D's Web Service server?
That
would obviously be the simplest route. The only problem is that we
use
already use NTK in the proposed system for both Active4D and in a
legacy
web app (NTK as a standalone web server). I'm hesitant to add yet
another server to the mix.
Thanks,
Brad
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