i do a lot of:
post_data = json.loads(request.body.read())
...
return json.dumps(retval)
works nicely for me. :)
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 10:09:15 PM UTC-8, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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> On 18 Nov 2012, at 9:54 PM, Jason Brower <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
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> I still don't get it. To me it looks like @service.json is all about
> taking data in the URL parameters and turning it into json code. I am
> wanting to build the server to receive much more data than could ever be
> including in that URL. Or am I missing something in the documentation.
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10#Remote-procedure-calls
> I want the server to TAKE json data and then RETURN json data.
>
>
> service.json passes URL parameters to the specified method in your
> controller, which has to do its own parsing of the POST body. This is how
> the service.jsonrpc handler does it:
>
> data = json.loads(request.body.read())
>
> Your controller method needs to do that, too. If you don't want to use any
> of the URL parameters, you don't need to.
>
> Alternatively you could forget about Service altogether, and just do all
> the JSON stuff in your controller.
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> On 11/19/2012 07:43 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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> On 18 Nov 2012, at 9:14 PM, encompass <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
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> Let's say for example I have the example code from the json website:
>
> {
> "glossary": {
> "title": "example glossary",
> "GlossDiv": {
> "title": "S",
> "GlossList": {
> "GlossEntry": {
> "ID": "SGML",
> "SortAs": "SGML",
> "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized
> Markup Language",
> "Acronym": "SGML",
> "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
> "GlossDef": {
> "para": "A meta-markup language, used to create
> markup languages such as DocBook.",
> "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
> },
> "GlossSee": "markup"
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
> And let's assume this is sent data from the phone.
> How would I build the controller to part this? The example here from the
> book didn't tell me much. At least that I can see.
>
>
> JSON-RPC requires that the top-level JSON object be in a certain format,
> with specified members, and the return object is similarly defineds. Unless
> you want to redefine your JSON objects, you can't use JSON-RPC.
>
> There's a JSON service as well, but you have to do your own parsing. You
> can look at gluon.utils.Service.serve_jsonrpc to see how the JSON-RPC
> service does it. I'm not sure why the JSON service doesn't decode the
> incoming object, but there you are...
>
>
>
> :/ @service.jsonrpc
> def getTasks():
> todos = db(db.todo).select()
> return [(todo.task,todo.id) for todo in todos]
>
>
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> On Monday, November 19, 2012 7:05:49 AM UTC+2, encompass wrote:
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>> The application on the mobile devices already exists and works. I need
>> to make many applications that work with the applications for testing and
>> so forth.
>> The application currently sends the JSON data to a webserver so I just
>> want to make web2py the server instead of the "other framework".
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:48:02 AM UTC+2, Marin Pranjić wrote:
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>>> JSONRPC should be used if you want to implement RPC service but if you
>>> only need to send json data, you can do it that way or another.
>>>
>>> How would you send the data? Something that works in the background or
>>> manually, from web browser?
>>>
>>> Anyway, the issue can be how to do it on your mobile device (depends
>>> or your needs), not the web2py as a server :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Jason Brower <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>>> I have a mobile device that sends various data using json to a server.
>>>> I would like this server to be web2py.
>>>> How would I do this?
>>>> Am I on the right track here?
>>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10#JSONRPC
>>>> Or am I looking in the wrong place.
>>>> There will be a large amount of data sent.
>>>> BR,
>>>> Jason Brower
>>>
>>>
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