Re: [Zope] zope form server and workflow
- Original Message - From: Tim Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] zope form server and workflow Thanks for your comment. I am interested in zope partly because it does seem to be perfect for REST while python is well suited for JSON. If you know of any open source zope or plone applications that are particularly RESTful please let me know. I'd like to learn from others rather than re-invent. Deciding how to slice your resources up into http calls seems to me to be a lot like defining an object hierarchy. Experience matters. To me REST is a 'design philosophy' rather than a technology and can be implemented using almost any infrastructure (but zope is a really good place to start!)... if you are interested in JSON here is some info on a zope implementation: http://zif.hill-street.net/jsonserver Jonathan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] zope form server and workflow
- Original Message - From: Tim Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: zope@zope.org Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:13 PM Subject: [Zope] zope form server and workflow I'd like to get zope developers advice. I'm interested in the possibility of developing a system by putting together several zope instance that talk to each other via web services. I'd like to use zope as a RESTful server but I am novice zope user. I have only built one product and that was over a year ago. What I would like to do is the following: I'd like to be able to use zope as a url addressed storage system for e-forms. These are forms like you would find in a hospital clinic. There would be a gui interface that would be separate from the zope server (maybe it would also run in a different zope server but it could also be built in php or jsp). This sounds like a very straight-forward application that could easily be implemented in zope. If you want a relational db for storage, there are several, i personally like mysql as the ZSQLDA interface does everything I need. You could use ReportLab to dynamically generate pdf docs if you need them. You can google for zope xml-rpc if you want to use that approach. hth Jonathan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] zope form server and workflow
I'd like to get zope developers advice. I'm interested in the possibility of developing a system by putting together several zope instance that talk to each other via web services. I'd like to use zope as a RESTful server but I am novice zope user. I have only built one product and that was over a year ago. What I would like to do is the following: I'd like to be able to use zope as a url addressed storage system for e-forms. These are forms like you would find in a hospital clinic. There would be a gui interface that would be separate from the zope server (maybe it would also run in a different zope server but it could also be built in php or jsp). The gui pulls a blank e-form by calling http://hospital.org/form_service/patientCareForms/12465.pdf and pre-populates it with patient data taken from the session. Gui then stores the partially completed e-form. MRN is a unique number associated with a patient and FIN is unique to the MRN as well as the current encounter (or visit to the clinic) http://hospital.org/cardiovascular/MRN/FIN/date/uniqueid_12465.pdf then at a later time, gui recalls the same e-form http://hospital.org/cardiovascular/MRN/FIN/date/uniqueid_12465.pdf and sends it to a users mailbox. The mailbox is a zope workflow service http://hospital.org/workflow_service/dr_phil/date/uniqueid_12465.pdf Dr. Phil signs it and sends it to become part of the final medical record and stored in a relational database. The eform data is processed http://hospital.org/workflow_service/process_eform/12465.pdf And the pdf is sent for storage: http://hospital.org/stored_forms/cardiovascular/MRN/FIN/date/uniqueid_12465.pdf Is this possible in zope? Is it even a good idea performance wise? The tough part to me is 1. calling a url with two consecutive url parts that are dynamically generated: /MRN/FIN 2. doing inserts into dynamic areas such as the final storage step. A system like this is would let the physician's use e-forms that look just like the paper forms they are used to and it could be scaled up quickly. ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
