What is the top level "user story"? IE, what problem are you trying to solve? There may be an alternative approach to the detailed method you propose.
my 2p. -- Aaron Watters On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 10:22:29 AM UTC-4, Claude Vervoort wrote: > > Hello, > > Still new at notebooks and in particular extensions, so i'm not sure what > I am after is trivial or not the right way to look at it: > > So I want to add an end point to the notebook server that will receive a > POST and make the parameters it receives available in the notebook as > variables; the notebook would display an IFrame sending a request to an > external server, which responds by a form POST to that end point, which > would display a success page and ideally make those form post parameters > available in the notebook so they can be used in subsequent cells. > > So I looked at the various way to extend the notebook, and the custom > request handler offers a very simple way to expose a new endpoint. However, > I'm not sure how it can process the data it receives and add it to the > Kernel so it can be accessed directly within the notebook. I've browsed > through many examples of custom request handlers (thanks Github code > search!) but did not see any example that seems to do something similar. > > I've also looked at widgets, ipython extensions, but I do not see a clear > way yet. > > Any pointer appreciated, > > Thanks! > > Claude > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/f3d33602-48c9-4a5c-83e4-b6e5fc283654%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
