Alan Burlison wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>
>> Is this AJAX API usable by other nodes in the opensolaris community?
>>
>> i.e., the ARC community needs these lists when creating a new ARC Case...
>
> It isn't really an API as such, it is more of a technique. There is a
> thin wrapper around XMLHttpRequest
> (http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/website/auth/trunk/AuthWebapp/web/javascript/Ajax.js)
>
> which is used to make the Ajax requests in the browser, and the
> framework I'm using (Stripes) vectors the AJAX requests onto the
> appropriate methods in the server code, e.g.
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/website/auth/trunk/AuthWebapp/src/java/org/opensolaris/auth/webapp/admin/UserCollectivesAction.java#98
>
>
> The server methods then query the database to obtain a collection of
> Java objects representing the records of interest, and these are
> converted by the Stripes framework into the corresponding JavaScript
> which is returned to the browser and evaluated.
>
> External applications won't be allowed to access the database directly,
> but there will be an XMLRPC interface which will allow you to obtain the
> information you require. How you ship that data across to the browser
> really depends on your choice of application framework.
Right. The "API" I was asking about is the server-side URL that XMLHttpRequest
talks to - I don't have access to the server that the database is running on,
so I can't write the code under that URL...
i.e., the user connects to arc.opensolaris, gets my page, and on my page there
is javascript that needs to get the list of cats/projects...
The browser can't cross connect to auth.opensolaris because of the security
protections in the browser, so it needs to contact arc.opensolaris for the
lists.
So, the Q is how can I (on arc.opensolaris) get access to the data? If the
URL is a stable API, then I can have my server grab the data by treating it as
a web service....
I'm assuming from this email that this will be your XMLRPC interface, but that
it isn't there yet?
Clear as mud?
-John
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