[Mapbender-dev] JSON RPC

[Christoph Baudson]

Has been approved by the PSC, see

http://logs.qgis.org/mapbender/%23mapbender.2008-11-10.log

Closed.


Christoph Baudson schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> although Mapbender is wanting to move towards a RESTful architecture, 
> I fear it will not happen until a version 3.0.
>
> In the meantime, I propose to use JSON RPC 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-RPC) as the standard protocol to 
> use for internal client server interactions. It's very close to what 
> we are doing now.
>
> Using a standardised exchange format will have the following advantages
> * less error prone
> * faster to implement AJAX code
> * define standard error messages (example: session times out; then a 
> user clicks a button, an AJAX request is triggered; the server side 
> replies that the session is expired with a well defined error code; 
> client responds to the error code and displays a standard message. You 
> don't want to do this manually for each AJAX call)
>
> I'm open to any other suggestions. I think using a wrapper is 
> inevitable. Please send your opinions and suggestions until Monday, 
> Nov 10.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christoph
>


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