Folks- (I guess this is sort of OT, so if anyone knows of the correct place to post "HTTP Parameter Design best practice questions", feel free to point me in the right direction)
Since I'm using pylons and people here tend to be smart and polite I'm asking for feedback. I'm need to send a datastructure around on the client and server sides for my application. A python tuple representation might look like this: ((key, (value1,value2,...)), (key2, (value3, ....)), (key3, (value4, ....))) A dictionary-esque version might look like this: dict( key=((value1,value2,...)), key2=((value3, ...)), key3=((value4, ...))) Where key and value are semi arbitrary strings (should only be ascii)). If I have a python object like above I can pass in this python object to my template and create an analogous javascript version pretty easily. My question has to do with sending this data back in a form. One way to do it is create a form parameter for each key and value. Instead of using the key as the actual key, I could use some predetermined naming scheme, so the parameters would be sent like this (assuming the actual values are the names of the variables above for simplicity sake, and assuming that "..." means no value): K1=key1 V1=value1 V1=value2 K2=key2 V2=value3 K3=key3 V3=value4 Then when processing I can just iterate over all http parameters and if the start with "K" followed by an int I assume they are part of this dictionary, and then recreate my mapping on the server side. Another way would be to try and create a long string and put some psuedo-unique delimiters in the string ie: MYDICT=key1||value1||value2,,key2||value3,,key3||value4 Neither of these solutions feels good to me. But I think out of the two I prefer the former (just to avoid the delimiter actually occurring in the string, (probably wouldn't in practice)). If anyone cares to share experiences/comments passing around similar structures, I'm all ears. thanks matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
