I have recently been exploring the possibilities of AngularJS and so far it looks like a great framework for interactive forms and general data editing.
I would love to use it with web2py as I love the way web2py works and much prefer python to javascript :-) My main concern is that web2py's form validation and security features are really useful but would clash with the angular way of doing things. It seems to me that the way to get the two working together would be to create an alternative to FORM/SQLFORM/CRUD that instead of generating HTML would generate a json object containing all the field details and data for angular to then use to build the form or whatever interface is required. I would like to have a go at this but I know a lot gets done behind the scenes to generate forms and then validate the forms and generate error messages where validation fails. I don't want to try and recreate all these features from scratch so I'm thinking that maybe it is possible to reuse various methods and functions already used by the current form methods to do the same thing but generate json instead of HTML. What I would like to do is to be able to send a set of data (or a blank template) to the client using json and then have this data all posted back to web2py as json and have web2py validate this data and update/insert the relevant records.This data could be a single record, or a record and many linked records from another table. Does this sound feasible to those who know a bit more about how all these form methods work behind the scenes? Can anyone give me a few pointers? Even better has anyone already tackled this challenge who can share their work? It seems to me that this kind of feature could be very useful for the growing number of javascript front end frameworks available. Thanks. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
