On 14 September 2012 00:02, Chris Cunnington
<smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12-09-13 5:09 PM, Colin Putney wrote:
>>
>> Chris and Hannes,
>>
>> I've added a form example to the examples application. Besides only
>> working with text inputs, I also noticed that it only works with POST
>> form submissions, because I haven't implemented parsing of query
>> parameters yet. Also, the example exposed a couple of bugs, so you'll
>> have to update several other packages as well. The perils of living on
>> the bleeding edge! ;-)
>>
>> Colin
>>
> Excellent. The timing is great. I'm looking at something and this is just
> what it needs.
>
> I kept getting AnObsoleteALFormResource errors, which were odd. I take it
> they are addressed by that terminal #with:[]. Closing over stuff can be a
> pain.
>
> I've been hacking on ReflectCore. I've been converting it to an Ajax app,
> which I think it needs to be. The problem is its input and its output. The
> input is a URL the output is pure JSON. The input needs to be a form asking
> for a selector and the output needs to be formatted HTML. I've got the
> second part. I'll add the form tomorrow.

Not that I've actually touched Reflect-Core in a while, but my
intention was to have a RESTful JSON-in-JSON-out API: POST /something/
{"stuff":"here"} to add something, and so on. I hadn't thought about
forms in the slightest, mainly because I don't care about HTML. Unless
I've misread, and "form" here means "something in Altitude's domain"
rather than "an HTML form tag".

frank

> Wordpress has ways of offering JSON based RSS instead of XML, so The Weekly
> Squeak box on a future squeak.org homepage could be switched over easily.
> Strange to say, but Altitude has opened my eyes to JSON APIs and mashups.
> Serving your own data exclusively has become passé. That's not exactly news,
> I guess,  but it does snap a few things together.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>