BTW, what happens if the mime type is incorrect? Does the Req.xml method
fail in a graceful way, or do you get exceptions?
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote:
>
> Deriek,
>
> Appreciate your response. What I did was change the case to just
>
> case Req("api" :: "company" :: Nil, "", PutRequest)=> () =>
> saveCompany
>
> and in saveCompany I just extracted the Req object from S.request
> open_!.
>
> As long as the body of my request is of the right mime type ("text/
> xml")
> everything works great.
>
> Glenn...
>
> On May 18, 1:36 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The URL is defined by the match list in the Req object. In your case,
> you're
> > defining your match as :
> >
> > case r @ Req("api" :: "company" :: Nil, "", PutRequest)=> () =>
> > addCompany(r)
> >
> > Your List is ("api" :: "company" :: Nil), So your URL would need to look
> > like
> >
> > http://.../api/company
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Tim,
> >
> > > If I have a PUT dispatch case like so:
> >
> > > case r @ Req("api" :: "company" :: Nil, "", PutRequest)=> () =>
> > > addCompany(r)
> >
> > > and the handler is looking for something in r.xml like this:
> >
> > > req.xml match {
> > > case Full(<company>{parameters @ _*}</company>) => {
> > > for(parameter <- parameters){parameter match{
> > > case <companyName>{name}</companyName> =>
> company.name
> > > (name.text)
> > > case <line1>{line1}</line1> =>
> company.line1(line1.text)
> > > case <line2>{line2}</line2> =>
> company.line1(line2.text)
> > > case <city>{city}</city> => company.city(city.text)
> > > case <state>{state}</state> =>
> company.state(state.text)
> > > case <postalCode>{postalCode}</postalCode> =>
> > > company.postalCode(postalCode.text)
> > > case _ =>
> > > }
> > > }
> >
> > > what would my PUT URL actually look like? The lift book shows
> >
> > >http://www.pocketchangeapp.com/api/expense- PUT - addEntry(request) +
> > > XML Body as an example, but I don't really understand that in the
> > > context of third-party
> > > app sending the request.
> >
> > > On May 17, 2:16 pm, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote:
> > > > > but I haven't figured out how to PUT documents from
> > > > > a non-lift resource into my lift app, since that
> > > > > requires that you can somehow access lift's Req object via a URL
> >
> > > > Hmm - im afraid your just plain wrong here... it needs nothing of the
> > > > sort. I have lift applications that are 100% back-end process, and
> > > > have no UI, or rather, the UI is an objective-c cocoa desktop
> > > > application. No magic included. Lift is extreamly good at building
> > > > REST services as it has a very flexible HTTP handling mechanism. I do
> > > > wonder though, if you already have a GET dispatch, what you cannot
> > > > figure out how to do PUT? (look at net.liftweb.http.PutRequest and
> how
> > > > its used in Req pattern match)
> >
> > > > @barry: You can do what you want without any issues. Lift is
> > > > implemented as a filter so can co-habbit with other servlets etc.
> Lets
> > > > assume that you implement the lift element under /badger - configure
> > > > your web.xml correctly then only /badger/* requests get passed to
> > > > lift. Technically speaking there is no difference in serving XHTML
> and
> > > > XML... its all XML at the end of the day; its just that your browser
> > > > can make sense of the micro-format ;-)
> >
> > > > Whatever you have your persistance teir configured with, you can just
> > > > layer lift on top for a REST service - it really is that easy.
> >
> > > > Cheers, Tim
>
> >
>
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