On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jerry Hamby <jerryha...@vdex.com> wrote:
> I use Apigee UserGrid, also known as App Services. I love it and I won't > go back. > http://apigee.com/docs/app_services > > I use to do Coldfusion CFCs and MySQL before I discovered the power and > flexibility NoSQL type databases and REST statements. > All the open APIs use REST, so this works very well except for one factor, > I can't find a way to do REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements in Actionscript. > My solution was to set up an Amazon EC2 account, run Node.js (Apigee has a > Node SDK) and establish a socket. So I couldn't completely get away > from a backend server I did force myself into Javascript. At least my > costs are very low and I can build apps using web, desktop or mobile > constructing all > my business logic inside the client. > > I also setup a Amazon S3 account and found some Actionscript code to > upload my images while storing my image database records on Apigee. > Apigee also has file storage but they didn't add that feature until after > I had got the S3 stuff working. > > I got a free year from Amazon and Apigee is free up to some ridiculous > amount of calls per month, I think 3 million. > I haven't tried Parse or backendless yet. Again the downside to any of > these services is the same, Flash doesn't have a native way > to handle REST "PUT" and DELETE" statements. If anyone can show my how to > get around this issue in Actionscript I would appreciate it. > > Maybe finding a solution for this REST gap in Actionscript would be a > great project for the Apache Flex community. > > Have you tried the as3httpclient library? [1] Thanks, Om [1] https://github.com/gabriel/as3httpclient/blob/master/EXAMPLES.md > > On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Stephen C wrote: > > > I am curious to get the groups feelings on these cloud backends with air > > projects. Like parse and backendless, i have played with these, and i am > > toying with the idea of moving to one so i do not have to maintain my > > php/mysql backend and let someone else deal with it. > > > > I would also be interested in others. > > > > Thank You, > > Stephen C > > >
