On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Volker Mische <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noah Slater wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:47:11PM +1100, Volker Mische wrote: >>> An additional feature would be that you can return any arbitrary JSON to the >>> view that will be attached to the resulting document. An example would be >>> returning a distance between a point specified in the query and a geometry >>> in >>> a document. >> >> I'm not sure I understand what it means to attach something to a JSON >> document. >> > > What I meant with "attach" is, that the result (custom JSON) from the > external service has to end up somehow in the final output of the view. >
This sound like something you could do by having say, a python or ruby (or js) view server that would query the external service while processing the view. Should be doable with the current trunk. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
