Yup, I was going to reply with this as well. One draw back to this, however, is that it makes the app a little bit more complicated to test and debug, I've found, unless you concoct your own other test cases that import the pyAmf libs and test separately. Another thing you might want to think about is future expansion. If you decide to build off of your now AMF exposed API, how do other technologies interact? I kind of feel like I made a mistake going down the AMF path - I want to implement my API in other ways, but I have to rewrite it in JSON or some other destination agnostic transport protocol.
I guess long story short, stick with JSON, REST, SOAP, etc... it will make future expansion easier (if you can see it going that route). -Thomas On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Randy Barlow <rbar...@americanri.com>wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > solar declared: > > Is there a 'common' way to build apps with django and a Adobe Flex > > frontend? > > I'm about to do just that, and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of > > choices that you get by multiplying > > communication layers (REST, XML-RPC, SOAP) times data formats (XML, > > JSON, etc.) times Flex microarchitectures (Cairngorm, RestfulX, etc.). > > Obviously, not all of the above combine, but nevertheless... some of > > them are probably dead ends, and I'm wondering what people on the > > list usually choose for building "rich clients" on a django backend. > > My quick reply to you about this is that we're using Flex with Django > over the AMF protocol. We're using PyAMF to accomplish the RPC > protocol, and have implemented various object managers to be used over > that protocol to set and retrieve data. The AMF protocol allows the use > of ordinary Python data types, so no need to worry about XML or JSON - > just use strings, dicts, and lists as usual! > > - -- > Randy Barlow > Software Developer > The American Research Institute > http://americanri.com > 919.228.4971 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkqcFykACgkQw3vjPfF7QfU05gCgi9iJnXiOIWLxrE51Zjd4zdJ3 > P6oAniM4sPAXmNj0IYDzuwgPX5qt+2u+ > =fGXU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
