You might want to checkout the scala http library, dispatch: http://databinder.net/dispatch/
Cheers, Tim On Dec 22, 7:46 am, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well from your Snippet method you can just use HttpURLConnection, or > Apache Commons Client to make remote requests to other services. Of > course typically you won't do this directly from the snippet method > but from a Service layer of your application. One you get the response > (say it's an XML) you parse it using Scala XML class and the extract > relevant information using pattern matching or by some other means. > From here you just construct the NodeSeq that the Snippet/View needs > to return. > > As a side note ... > If those requests are taking a long time, you can wrap your snippet in > <lift:lazy-load> ... and it will be loaded asynchronously. There is > another attribute (lift:parallel="true")that you could specify to a > snippet that it will be run asynchronously allowing other snippets to > process and the result will be merged into the HTTP response right > before sending the response to the client. Note that you need to set > LiftRules.allowParallelSnippets > > Br's, > Marius > > On Dec 22, 8:39 am, "Neil.Lv" <anim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > How could i send a HTTP get or post request in the Snippet or Views > > in the Lift? > > > For example, the weather API . > > > I want to send an HTTP get request or post request to another > > website that it supplies some > > APIs, then in the lift we can receive the return data such as XML > > data, so we can use these XML or Json data > > in the Snippet or the Views. > > > Thanks for any help! > > > Cheers, > > Neil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
