The need to represent data from web services inside a web2py app must be a fairly common requirement, I think. I certainly need(ed) to for a project.
I used a sqlite mem db for each page (I was calling Amazon AWS through boto, get lists of stuff, etc.). I did three things to represent my data. Firstly, I called some aws APIs and store the result in dicts and lists in session. Secondly, I used sqlite mem db DAL object , iterated inserts to these from the dicts/lists , and built sqlform.grid from these. Thirdly, I used sqlform factory with IS_IN_SET for my lists and dicts in session, so I could provide drop down lists of AWS responses in forms. This was a small, but useful app, which was used by no more than about 6 people, so it worked well. Don't know how well this will scale with the sqlite mem db (probably not well). I'd love a component that would populate grids and lists from arbitrary data, such as from boto or indeed any other web service call. On Thursday, 10 September 2015 22:42:30 UTC+1, Luis Valladares wrote: > > Hello! I'm trying to use SQLFORM.grid (or something like this) to my > website, but this page doesnt have a database because it consumes all the > data form a service, so i ask the service for the list of records in a > table and i recieve it in json format and transform to dictionary. > > What i want to do is use this dictionary to create a grid (Like the > SQLFORM.grid) but the grid doesnt work if i dont specify a query, there is > a way to create a grid without query and instead with a dictionary? > > Thanks for any help you can give! > -- 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/d/optout.
