Hey Glenn, Don't worry about being a novice - we've all been there!
What kind of external data did you want to get? If it's service based e.g salesforce then you can do that with scala inside a lift app. Describe what you want to do and we'll advise on the best course of action :-) Cheers Tim Sent from my iPhone On 5 May 2009, at 18:41, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tim, > > Ahh... > > I see what you mean. Just bypass lift altogether. Now you see why I'm > just a novice lifter. > I suppose the same applies to retrieving data from external sources > (other than a db connection)? > > Thanks. > > Glenn... > > On May 5, 10:13 am, David Pollak <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:43 AM, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Tim, >> >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "programatic POST" or "post to the 3rd >>> part...", >>> but it seems a simple, yet necessary use-case to be able to post to >>> any available >>> URL and receive a response within the lift framework. >> >> If you're going to do a POST on an external resource, you can form >> the valid >> XHTML to post to that resource: >> >> <form method="post" action="http://myservice.com";> >> ... form body here >> </form> >> >> In this scenario, you're posting to an external server. Why would >> you >> expect something to come back to your Lift app? The HTTP request >> is being >> made on an external service. >> >> >> >>> Particularly if >>> one is doing mashups, getting >>> and storing data, RSS and Atom feeds, etc., it shouldn't be >>> extroardinary, yet I find no documentation, >>> or at least no coherent documentation, on how exactly to do that. >> >>> I think you are suggesting that I should post to a lift snippet that >>> wraps the HTTP request stuff, using plain >>> old Java EE, is that right? But why should that be necessary? If I >>> wanted to write Java EE servlets, I'd do it >>> from the beginning and not use lift at all. >> >>> By the way,I thought lift already wraps HttpServlet. Aren't there >>> some >>> method calls I can use to do the job? >> >>> Glenn... >> >>> On May 5, 5:45 am, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Glenn, >> >>>> If you are posting to an external URL im not sure there is a good >>>> case >>>> for using bind(...) as that binds served HTML with a server side >>>> function to be executed upon form submission. If you want to post >>>> directly to another URL that is not managed by lift, there is >>>> little >>>> point executing something on the lift side of things right? >> >>>> Alterntivly, if you want the post to the 3rd part to be >>>> transparent, >>>> you could do a programatic POST using Apache HTTP lib or >>>> something so >>>> that its transparent to the user. Is this the functionality you >>>> desire? >> >>>> Cheers, Tim >> >>>> On May 5, 7:15 am, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> This may be a dumb question from a lift novice, but here goes... >>>>> I want to post a form to an external url for processing. >>>>> Specifically, >>>>> I have in mind inserting a node into an Apache Sling instance >>>>> (JCR). >> >>>>> I have a form like so: >> >>>>> <lift:Sling.add form="POST" action="http://admin:ad...@localhost:8888/ >>>>> content/first"> >>>>> <entry:title/><entry:text/><br/> >>>>> <entry:submit/> >>>>> </lift:Sling.add> >> >>>>> and a snippet: >> >>>>> class Sling { >>>>> object title extends RequestVar("") >>>>> object text extends RequestVar("") >> >>>>> def add(xhtml:NodeSeq):NodeSeq = { >>>>> def processEntryAdd() = {println("You entered: " + >>>>> title.is + " >>>>> = " + text.is)} >> >>>>> bind("entry", xhtml, >>>>> "title" -> SHtml.text(title.is, title(_)), >>>>> "text" -> SHtml.text(text.is, text(_)), >>>>> "submit" -> SHtml.submit("Submit", processEntryAdd)) >> >>>>> } >> >>>>> } >> >>>>> Of course, lift removes the action attribute on the form, >>>>> substituting >>>>> just "/" for the url. >> >>>>> Does this call for a custom dispatch function? If so, what would >>>>> it >>>>> look like. I understand the path part is just >>>>> a list, but what about the context-path and how would I set that >>>>> up? >> >>>>> Glenn Silverman >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net >> Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp >> Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
