Here's the situation: I'm creating an RESTful internal API as an app in our project. Our 'main' app (we'll call it main) is a client of the API app. Since we're building the API piece by piece as we use it, the emphasis on all of this is simple simple simple -- with our eye on eventually opening up pieces of the API to the public.
The general flow looks like: request => main app handling => API client => API logic. Because right now both of the apps live in the same project and are being served from the same boxes (and the API won't be running on a separate machine for a while), I figured, hey, why not just fake an HttpRequest from the main app logic and pass it over to API? That way, we don't need to worry about exposing the internal URLs, we don't need to worry about authentication right now, it'll be simple. Right now the API client I've written takes an HTTP method, path, and params, uses resolve(path, api.urls) to get the view, and then calls the view using a fake HttpRequest that I populate myself. The one problem is that I'm finding it much harder to fake the HttpRequests than I thought -- namely because the RESTful handlers on the API side are expecting things like request._get_post_and_files() to be present. So, my thoughts: a) Continue using the lightweight API "client" I've written, but instead of building a HttpRequest, fake a WSGIRequest instead (with the _minimum_ data needed) b) Patch the django test client to deal with PUT and DELETE and use that as our API client c) Import the API urls.py into the main urls.py and call the API methods by generating actual HTTP requests I'm not crazy about c) since it requires more infrastructure work now. Any thoughts? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
