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4 points by thaddeus 5461 days ago | link | parent

Thanks for the reply.

I ended up using dbslayer to interface with mysql. And along with aw's json combinator + stefano's? http-get/utils - it works brilliantly!

http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer

http://awwx.ws/combinator/

http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/arc2.master/lib/http-get/

One note: I needed to change the dbslayer source code, prior to making the install, in order to eliminate the spaces that aw's combinator would choke on. It was a trivial change though...

[EDIT: Correction I was using an older version of aw's combinator - the new version handles spaces]

T.



1 point by aw 5461 days ago | link

That's cool. It's a neat idea that by default (if there isn't an explicit reason why you have to do something else), all interfaces can be HTTP, and as a bonus use JSON as your data interchange format...

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1 point by thaddeus 5461 days ago | link

Exactly. The concept is great. Even now when I am starting to learn haskell, the first thing I am doing checking out haskells' JSON parser to communicate via HTTP. Conceptually I can keep doing this and communicate easily across any language. And since SQL to URL is so basic I can re-use/apply dbslayer to any language too.

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1 point by aw 5461 days ago | link

Aha, I knew I'd seen some post that talked about this, and I found it: http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/why-http/

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