I agree, Twisted is not a web application framework. So the question is
this: do we want/need a web application framework for Onionoo? It
seems like it is such a straightforward service (process one of a very
few different request types, send back a JSON response) that maybe any
web application framework is overkill.
According to Sathya, Cyclone does have some functionality for converting
dicts to JSON (of course, so does the json standard library module) and
sets response headers properly automatically. So that also makes some
of the coding easier and possibly more maintainable. The latter is
definitely not to be sneezed at; I just don't have enough experience
with either Twisted or Cyclone to know whether it makes up for the
additional dependency.
- Norman
On 7/10/12 3:04 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Norman Danner <[email protected]> writes:
Based on a quick look, it seems like Cyclone provides a slightly
nicer way to specify how to handle the various requests than does a
plain Twisted web application. Are there any other advantages to
using Cyclone as opposed to plain Twisted?
From what I understand of the two systems, Twisted's "web stuff" isn't
really intended as a "web application framework" (yet?) and you'd
probably want Nevow or Twisted.web2 for that anyway. Cyclone and
Tornado, OTOH, *are* Web frameworks. The advantage of Cyclone being
that it's based on the core Twisted async "stuff" rather than
Tornado's homebrew (and hence supports more things, has tests,
cross-platform support, etcetera).
Using Cyclone would also allow you to use txtorcon, as it's based on
Twisted too :)
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Norman Danner - [email protected] - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University
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