An interesting experiment with JSON, Postgres and Omnis
Paul Mulroney
pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au
Mon Jan 16 19:16:47 EST 2017
> On 17 Jan 2017, at 1:00 AM, omnisdev-en-request at lists.omnis-dev.com wrote:
> On 15/01/17 07:26 PM, Paul Mulroney wrote:
>>> On 14 Jan 2017, at 1:00 AM, omnisdev-en-request at lists.omnis-dev.com wrote:
>>>
>>> My point is merely that I've talked to plenty of developers whose needs
>>> are small enough that learning a completely new environment is complete
>>> overkill compared to creating a couple of remote forms in a technology
>>> they already posses the skills in. Not everyone is in the market for
>>> building a full fledge all bells and whistles website and mobile behemoth.
>> We're in that boat - we have a thick client application, that only requires certain features to be web based/mobile based, so it's relatively painless to go from Omnis thick client to wmClient or jsClient.
>>
>> We're doing a slightly bigger project, and for that I'm looking at using Bootstrap for the website part, Omnis as the middleware and Postgres as the backend. We're planning to build a RESTful API in Omnis and have the website use that. We'll still have thick clients connected to the same system as well, so it's going to be an interesting one!
>
> I'm curious what has you think you need a RESTful API. What is your use
> case? I'm not arguing that you should or shouldn't need one. If you
> expose a RESTful API, how do you intend to display the JSON or XML that
> Omnis returns?
Hi Clifford,
Thanks for your message! Good question!
It's more about an opportunity to try a new technology. I could implement my own API with a bunch of web calls etc, but I thought using an existing structure might be a better way to go. The website will have some financial aspects to it and I would rather implement that in Omnis where I am way more confident in my skills.
Regards,
Paul.
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