Yes, thanks for the reminder. Things have been busy at work and with a new baby at home, I've had some trouble finding time to work on it. Rest assured I do still plan on doing the work - it's just been very slow, and I've still got to get more familiar with git (recommendations welcome).
Ben ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tomasz Siekierda <[email protected]> > To: Jason H <[email protected]> > Cc: Robin Burchell <[email protected]>; Qt5-feedback > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Qt5-feedback] Web service functionality in Qt5 > > @QWebService idea in general - I've read IBM's view on RESTful WSes, > and it seems not particurarly hard to implement on top of existing > QWebMethod code. I'll try doing that soon. I'll also investigate usage > of XmlPatterns in some experimental branch, as it will require major > changes in QWsdl. In the meantime, I've still got other important > features to add to the project, as specified in http://goo.gl/L1C6X, > and in docs (BTW, Gitorious' wiki is also fully editable, feel free to > use it, too). And, as I learn from today's feedback topics, QUrl will > also change, and I use it a lot. > Anyway, I've introduced another switch, and many bug fixes into the code > today. > > @Jason - there was some talk on serialization on Qt5-feedback, but I > don't remember the results. True, that would be a useful feature > (although, to be honest, AFAIK it is at least partially done even now > - just see how QSettings stores various data. And QSettings getts > stuff from QVariant). > > @Prashanth - right then, welcome aboard, I guess. As I've mentioned > before, I still have lots to do in current (reading, converting) code, > so I won't do much (anything, in fact, at least in the coming few > weeks) in terms of server functionality. If you want to, you can start > doing that yourself. You probably have to contact guys working on > QService, and arrange some common ground with them (QtService was > proposed in June by BRM - bm_witness at yahoo.com, on this mailing > list). > > To say again - any help would be greatly appreciated, not only by me, > but possibly by community at large :) > > On 17 August 2011 15:34, Jason H <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that any RPC/JSON(JavaScript)/SOAP(XML)/Python/QtDataStream etc >> serialization work should be done as an independent or reusuable work. I > can >> see converting to/from a QObject to any format as useful beyond web >> services. If you are going to support XML and JSON, then might as well eave >> room for other formats as well... >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Prashanth Udupa <[email protected]> >> To: Tomasz Siekierda <[email protected]> >> Cc: Qt5-feedback <[email protected]>; qt next > <[email protected]>; >> Robin Burchell <[email protected]>; Konstantin Tokarev > <[email protected]>; >> Jason H <[email protected]>; Peter Hartmann > <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:29 AM >> Subject: Re: [Qt5-feedback] Web service functionality in Qt5 >> >> Hi Tomasz, >> >> >> @Prashanth - very interesting project, seems powerful. But - we are >> talking about web service functionality, which means that apps written >> not only in Qt (but indeed, any other language/ framework) would need >> to contact it flawlessly (which in turn means communication using >> established protocols, like SOAP). Is that possible in GCF? I'm not >> saying no, though - I'll need to read a bit more about it. >> >> Yes. We can support multiple message formats in GCF. Currently we have a >> custom XML message format. We will be supporting JSON soon. It would not be >> impossible to support SOAP. >> So, in theory - we should be able to mix web-services written using GCF/Qt >> with other web-services by using SOAP and/or JSON. >> Best Regards, >> Prashanth >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Qt5-feedback mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback > _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
