From: Matt Todd <chiology@...>
Date: 2009-01-25T00:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop <-> Web

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There's not much in Halcyon you'll find beyond what you've already learned
here. The interesting bit, I guess, would be the PostBodyContentTypeParser
middleware. Apologies for the name, haha. I wrote the middleware to
compliment Halcyon since everything coming out of it was JSON I figured it
should at least support it coming in.
Halcyon behaves very similar to what's going on in your application...
essentially it breaks down to a simplistic pattern: always have a resource
(a hash or an array of hashes, for example) to respond with as JSON objects.
A lot of the time it was just calling #to_json on an object as the body of
the response. Aside from that, everything is as you'd expect.

I recommend JSON wholeheartedly.

Matt



On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
> wrote:
> > I also learned from the Sinatra list that there is a Rack middleware
> > module you can load which which will perform the parsing of JSON POST
> > data for you, so it just ends up in params. Tidy.
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/sinatrarb/msg/6579132bee5fc0b2
> >
> >
> http://github.com/rack/rack-contrib/blob/44322288f263dda0743183529efe4e04a240e76c/lib/rack/contrib/post_body_content_type_parser.rb
>
> If sole purpose is to ferry back JSON back forth, one may have a look at:
>
> http://halcyon.rubyforge.org/
>
> Also, why bother converting JSON to YAML on ruby side? Marshalling
> Ruby objects to JSON is equally easier. If you are using AR or
> something it already has support for that, otherwise JSON gem already
> comes with support for marshalling built-in types which can be easily
> extended to custom classes with to_json method.
>
>


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