Re: Handling GET Requests & Redirecting
Re: Handling GET Requests & Redirecting
- Subject: Re: Handling GET Requests & Redirecting
- From: Kevin Hinkson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:22:13 -0400
On 2011-01-28, at 9:02 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>
> Le 2011-01-28 à 19:15, Chuck Hill a écrit :
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Kevin Hinkson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem.
>>>
>>> Let's say I have a Person object. How would I go about handling a GET request (with query strings) to delete a Person, save the changes to the database, and then redirect to a URL (not a WOComponent). Oh, and I need to have a Session available as well.
>>>
>>> Initially I thought about doing this as a WOComponent and calling one of it's methods from the constructor, but then there is no clean way
>>> to redirect the response. The alternative seemed to be to use DirectActions.
>>
>> That would work.
>>
>>
>>> But using this method seems to mean I will have to write a direct action for each
>>> "action" (like delete/add/edit) that I would want to perform on a particular EO. It gets even hairier if I would like to re-use these actions in an API. This seems a bit kludgy and very not the webobjects way so I think I'm missing something.
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>>
>> That sounds a lot like a REST interface. Have you looked at ERRest in Project Wonder?
>>
>>
>>> NB: My Session on awake, looks for certain cookie values, verifies hashes and loads a user account EO as a means of implementing Sign In "Remember Me", then cookies are updated and added to the response in the Session sleep method. It's a lazy man's Serialized Session Store. Does this sound like an appropriate use of awake and sleep? I also mention it in case it will mess with any response changes suggested for the redirect action. Thanks.
>>
>> I would not call it a Serialized Session Store, but I am not sure how it will play with ERRest.
>
> +1 for ERRest!
>
I checked out ERRest and it's working out perfectly. It's dead simple to use (so far). Thanks again guys.
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Webobjects-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden