I was wondering if anyone has ever tried anything like this before: I have an application that will be running mostly from data via Python API calls. This means that I won't really need to use the database at all. The problem with this approach, is that some important web2py features are only available when using the DAL. I'll use CRUD and SQLFORM as an example, but also plugins like PowerTables all require the DAL and table definitions.
I had thought of loading some of the API's information into a database, and working off of that, and periodically refreshing but I'd have to do that every 30 seconds or so and that's a lot of extra work that could potentially introduce bugs and make debugging harder. So my question is: Is it possible to define a set of table definitions (reference fields and all) and pull information from the API instead of from the database so that I could use things like CRUD and PowerTables?
