[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Webserver with Ajax and XML

[Darklord]

Ok, as promissed, im reporting on what i have done.

Here is the code for the prototype i have been working on, to test the concept and check some of the changes needed to implement it.

The code isnt meant to be added, just for checking and commenting; it was done against the code on SourceForge cvs (public, of course).

Following are some notes of implementation, covering what i have found out, done and thought about.

[Darklord]

Implementation Notes, part 2

For now, it still needs to login from the webserver to access the XML (to get the session id); a XML login is needed, but the changes were not worth it for a prototype; an also implemented http response with code 403 "Forbidden" is returned if a valid session id isnt given.

For the webserver to know that a XML response is wanted, a "channel" parameter is passed in the url with the value XML.

Also, to get the info, a "request" parameter is passed; there are two requests implemented, "testXML", for testing purposes, and "getStats", that gives the info needed for the bar (and some more).

So, the url to get the xml for the stats would be like this:

CODE

http://[webserver url]/?ses=[valid session id]&channel=xml&request=getStats

(case sensitive)

This is the request used to update the stats bar.

The format of the XML returned is also something that needs to be discussed in a future step.

A problem found was that the locale on my machine would interfere with the javascript notation expected (the simbol for decimals and thousands were switched); the easiest solution found was changing the application locale to english_USA while composing the XML reply, and restoring it after.

Another one, related, was with the translated strings used for the webserver; to process the data, a single language needs to be used, but this brings the problem with updating some of the fields; more on this below; the solution adopted was using english as the chosen language of the data.

This post has been edited by Darklord: Jun 5 2006, 22:20