On Jan 21, 11:34 am, eoc <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello- > > This is probably a dumb question for folks who know what they are > doing, so please bear with me. I'm in the process of designing an app > that is essentially a 'bridge' application. In other words, if an > action is called within my app, within that action I need to be able > to communicate with one or more external web services, process the > results, and then return the processed results as the response. > > So, if you don't mind me asking, what is the best way of doing this? > It seems that the WebOb request and response objects are incredibly > powerful but must be used within a WSGI context (perhaps I am wrong on > this?) How would I initiate a request to an external service that > isn't wsgi if I were able to use Request/Response? > > Or is this a situation where I would use a different approach for > external communications, such as httplib2, within the action? > > Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.
I wrap urllib2.Request for communication with REST-esque services. I don't use WebOb for this, but you might be able "inject" the urllib2 response into a WebOb response.
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