Rich, Henry,
Thanks for your reply. It seems that OpenLaszlo supports PUT and DELETE
after all. I forgot that we could do setQueryType() on datasets. To my
surprise, Google pointed me to my own post that I made a few months back. =)
REST is cool. I'm now able to have both OpenLaszlo and Bourne shell
script front-ends, all with the same back-end code.
[ simon.cpu ]
Rich Christiansen wrote:
Hi Simon,
I have successfully implemented a REST architecture in PHP by using
OpenLaszlo with Drupal. I had to write a REST server for the 'service'
(is that what it's called?) module. I discovered by my own frustration
that Flash doesn't support all HTTP verbs, so I believe I just defaulted
to GET in all instances. If your service is only going to be accessed
by the OL app, however, that doesn't matter too much - as I recall, the
real power of the verbs is derived from how modern web browsers make,
cache, and ask for permission to do the requests. If your service is
only going to be accessed by the OL app, then there should be no problem
using GET (and/or POST) in all instances.
In addition to the workarounds already posted, you technically could do
the REST integration via JS in the host browser, using the interface
between the browser and the OL app for communication. However, having
done a fair amount of OL/browser interfacing myself, I recommend against
this option.
-Rich
Simon Cornelius P. Umacob wrote:
Hello,
I'm a bit curious, has anyone of you here tried implementing REST
architecture with PHP and OpenLaszlo? I'm curious, did you use HTTP
PUT for updating the data and HTTP DELETE for deleting the data? Do
the major browsers support them?
In an ideal world, all four HTTP verbs should probably be used;
however, in actual practice, I have this strange feeling that I'm
limited to GET and POST only...
Thanks,
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