[Laszlo-user] laszlo not supporting REST?

[Gregory Denton]

Revisiting this topic searching for cleaner SOLO REST support: I'm not
a Flash programmer so don't know the lingo here, but...

Is is possible to "run in the AIR player environment" with a
laszlo-compiled app? How is this done? What are the other
benefits/drawbacks?

Alternatively, has anyone had any luck integrating AJAX calls outside
laszlo with a laszlo-compiled app?

Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Henry Minsky <hminsky at laszlosystems.com> wrote:
> In the DHTML runtime, you may use any REST request method.
>
> The Flash 8 player  just does not natively  support anything besides
> GET and POST,and it appears that flash 9/10 won't do PUT or DELETE
> either, unless you are running in the AIR player environment.  For the
>  Flash 9 player in a regular browser, it appears to be limited to GET
> and POST, at least according to how I read the AS3 documentation.
>
> Note however, , if your application is making proxied request rather
> than a SOLO request, the proxy server (LPS) can perform the REST PUT
> or DELETE methods. So if you are willing to deploy your application
> with proxied
> data requests, then you could use these methods in a Flash application.
>
> [regarding the Flash 9 player, here's what the AS3 docs say for
> flash.net.URLRequest]
>
> method  property
> method:String  [read-write]
> Language Version :      ActionScript 3.0
> Runtime Versions :      AIR 1.0, Flash Player 9
> Controls the HTTP form submission method.
>
> For SWF content running in Flash Player (in the browser), this
> property is limited to GET or POST operation, and valid values are
> URLRequestMethod.GET or URLRequestMethod.POST. For content running in
> Adobe AIR, if the content is in the application security domain, you
> can use any string value; otherwise (if the content is not in the AIR
> application security domain) you are still restricted to using GET or
> POST.
>
> Note: If running in Flash Player and the referenced form has no body,
> Flash Player automatically uses a GET operation even if the method is
> set to URLRequestMethod.POST.
>
> The default value is URLRequestMethod.GET.
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:19 PM, doug livesey <biot023 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi -- from scouting around the net, it looks like maybe Laszlo won't support
>> proper REST, as it doesn't support any verbs apart from GET and POST.
>> Is that correct?
>> How are people getting around it?
>> I'm a Rails developer, and for me to be able to embrace Laszlo, I'll really
>> *need* REST.
>> Cheers,
>>    Doug.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>
>