On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 11:09:27 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:38:57 PM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote: >> >> if the request comes in either as a POST or as a PUT it has a body (since >> all examples report a faily nested query structure, I'd say it's the case >> vs a simple querystring in a GET) >> >> If the body carries the correct content-encoding, it's automatically >> parsed into request.vars. You can still read the raw body as usual in >> request.body . >> >> > Thanks, that helped me to know what to look for. I got the Grafana stuff > installed, it does the fake-json-source ok, and with FF developer tools > I'm seeing the traffic to my nascent endpoint. > > When configuring the datasource URL, it does a GET to the base URL (the > one just for "checking in", return an HTTP 200; I put a little status json > into the response body just for grins). When you configure a panel (the > youtube videos they provide are important here) and select a metric , it > will do an OPTIONS and then a POST. > > I had put some CORS headers into my response, because FF is seeing me > return data when it accesses the Gravana server. [Sidebar question: does > the book cover anything about valid CORS? I didn't find it if it's there; > fortunately, there were some good posts in the GG archive. The book does > have little bits about providing protection against against black-hat > CORS.] The request to me seems to come from the client JS -- since it > shows in the network panel -- but FF gives CORS errors if I don't have the > headers. > > So now I just have to make a good response to the metric requests. > > /dps > > I may have to force the response to ASCII, and I don't remember how to do that. My JSON is currently being decoded as 36 or so objects, each a single character, while the fake source response is being decoded as a single compound object (per the FF devtool network tab), and the Grafana display is saying "datapoints is undefined".
My content header line says "application/json;encoding/utf-8", theirs says only "application/json". /dps >> >> On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 10:50:23 PM UTC+1, Dave S wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to implement a simple json endpoint for Grafana. Does anyone >>> here have experience with doing this? >>> >>> <URL: >>> https://github.com/grafana/simple-json-datasource/blob/master/README.md> >>> >>> I'm looking at using @service.json, but I'm not sure how to get the body >>> on a /query. >>> >>> (The sample fake-simple-json-datasource is a server written in >>> javascript! It doesn't make clear if the /query is a POST or a GET, and if >>> it's a GET how the body gets done.) >>> >>> /dps >>> >>> -- 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.
