I'm an engineer who writes LZX code every day. I write client code that
interacts with back-end code via HTTP.
What goes on once the message is sent from the client to the server
doesn't matter to the client. The back-end could be written in perl,
PHP, Java, C#, etc.
The OpenLaszlo compiler generates code that runs in the client. You can
use an HTTP proxy to see each bundle of XML that goes back & forth
between my SOLO-compiled app and the back-end.
The client sends HTTP GETs or POSTs and the server responds. I don't
understand what kind of new serializer is needed.
I don't speak for Laszlo the company but as a developer who develops
using OpenLaszlo every day.
Cheers,
-e
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:16 PM, Matt Rosin wrote:
Dear Eliot,
Thank you very much for the info.
Looking at CPAN it seems conceivable the view from
Catalyst::View::REST::XML might even suffice, but I guess what we
really want is the full-blown Catalyst::Action::Rest (providing
Catalyst::Controller::Rest) with the XML::Simple serializer. Do you
concur?
Catalyst REST dispatcher:
http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/Catalyst-Action-REST-0.41/
Catalyst MVC framework: http://www.catalystframework.org/
Of course if LPS really compresses the XML into a binary format then
we really want to make a new serializer for OpenLaszlo. Can you
describe what this is?
Meanwhile I will study the data binding manual and see how it works.
If I have time which I don't really.. To tell you the truth, we really
need a CPAN module or at least a document on perl and OpenLaszlo to
specify what practice you recommend.
Does your company have any interest in improving this situation? I'm
basically coming back after a year and seeing not much changed in
terms of documentation however maybe OpenLaszlo and Catalyst have
advanced far enough to mash it together without needing too much
hand-holding..? I hope OpenLaszlo can become friendlier to the Perl
world.
Many thanks for your help on this list.
Matt
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