I have created a few apps that help users to generate pdf-documents. I create some templates and let users enter some forms, the data is submitted, inserted and a PDF is returned.
As this feature became popular I now have a generic function in a web2py model where I pass the function list with paragraphs and heades that gets added to the document. A lot of time saved, so far so good! Now here is the problem: People have started asking me if they could use my service from their servers. I kind of need to figure out how to convert my PDF-creating function to service. I now just want some advice on where to start. I feel that letting people submit their txt using post_vars will be messy and wont work with special characters. My thought at the moment would be to set up a soap service that receives the data for the document and stores it in the database. The service then returns a url with an uniqe key. The controller uses the key to fetch the data from the database and creates the PDF on the fly. What do you think? How would you solve this task? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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.
