Re: How to open a URL in WO
Re: How to open a URL in WO
- Subject: Re: How to open a URL in WO
- From: Calven Eggert <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:23:39 -0400
Just checked out that link. this looks pretty cool. Anyone else in the WO community use it? If so, what are your impressions?
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/
On 2011-07-13, at 2:14 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
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> On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Calven Eggert wrote:
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>> Geesh, after reading this I've realized that I missed a 'minor' detail. hehe
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>> My task is for a current WO application to import data from a new source, which happens to be a given URL. Far as I know it's read-only. (I can't imagine having to rewrite all my WO apps of over 10 years work. yikes, that would be scary)
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> OK, that should be a lot less scary. You will need them to provide some documentation on what exactly that URL returns. Then use something like this:
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/
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> to get the content. Parsing / handling the content depends on what the are sending back.
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>> one reply to this subject talked about REST. is this my solution?
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> I thought that ERRest was mostly on the production, not consumption side. I could be wrong. It may be of some use in parsing the response in any case.
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> Chuck
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>> On 2011-07-13, at 1:12 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
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>>> On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Calven Eggert wrote:
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>>>> I've just been told that instead of getting data from a database within my organization that I should be opening a URL and get the data that way. I have no clue how that would be done in Webobjects. Can someone please gently lead me in the right direction?
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>>> Read only? Full CRUD?
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>>> If you still want the result in EOs, then you need to write an EOF adaptor (e.g. like the JDBCAdaptor and the JNDIAdaptor). That is going to be a good bit of work. Maybe a lot of work. They want to replace what EOF does with an HTTP service that will (most probably) be slower. Unless you are using D2W, you might find that something other than WO is a better option.
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>>> If you just want dictionaries of read-only data, that can be considerably easier.
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>>> Chuck
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