[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread Timothy Perrett
Lift is perfect for these kind of REST abstractions... its what I do almost exclusively and I find Lift makes this process very smooth. My advice would be to go for a JSON api - nice and lightweight for streaming to an iPhone. Cheers, Tim On Jul 9, 1:43 am, Raphael erzengelr...@googlemail.com

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread marius d.
You can also use REST + Record Please see here: http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/b125f9d4e9ca10c8/5f871b2cf9f7099b?lnk=gstq=REST+%26+Record#5f871b2cf9f7099b It is a mechanism for automatically building Record objects from REST query string params. Hence Lift

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread Timothy Perrett
Good point marius - I know DPP committed to completing record DB support before 1.1, but any ideas when he is planning to implement it? Id say thats the next big lift feature. Cheers, Tim On Jul 9, 9:27 am, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: You can also use REST + Record Please see

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread marius d.
On Jul 9, 12:14 pm, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.eu wrote: Good point marius - I know DPP committed to completing record DB support before 1.1, but any ideas when he is planning to implement it? Id say thats the next big lift feature. Not sure yet but AFAIK he's also thinking to

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread Timothy Perrett
That would be pretty sweet - although right now I think most people would be happy with some base level persistence :-) Record is exciting though - especially looking forward to having a unified crud model for various backends. Cheers, Tim On 09/07/2009 11:12, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread Raphael
So there is no framework like ActiveRecord in Rails that both builds the objects and persists them to a DB? On 9 Jul., 10:27, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: You can also use REST + Record Please see here:http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/b125f9d4e...

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-09 Thread marius d.
What conditions the existent Mapper does not currently satisfy in terms of builds the objects and persists them to a DB? ... build Mapper objects from query strings? Br's, Marius On Jul 9, 3:13 pm, Raphael erzengelr...@googlemail.com wrote: So there is no framework like ActiveRecord in Rails

[Lift] Re: Web service with DB access - Lift required?

2009-07-08 Thread DFectuoso
Since i (personally) have no background in java, and have no idea how to get a request in a container(such as tomcat or jetty) to call me code inside a war file... if I where you i would set up a very simple lift app(it will take care many things like the db connection and other stuff). Keep in