On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Ronan Dunklau
<ronan.dunklau@dalibo.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 16 avril 2015 15:46:51 Ashesh Vashi a écrit :
>> Hi Ronan,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@dalibo.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > I'm trying to dive into the PGAdmin 4 codebase, and one low hanging fruit
>> > that
>> > I saw was the handling of JSON data.
>> >
>> > The first patch is really trivial, and allows PgAdmin4 to run on system
>> > with
>> > case sensitive filesystems.
>> >
>> > JSON data should be returned to the client using an application/json MIME-
>> > TYPE. Flask already provides an easy way to generate JSON response, with
>> > its
>> > jsonify function.
>> >
>> > This patch does not change anything architecturally, it just ensure that
>> > the
>> > get_nodes method of each hook returns JSONizable objects, instead of
>> > building
>> > them manually.
>> >
>> > Moreover, there was a function already in place to return JSON document
>> > according to a certain layout (everything under "data", with metadata
>> > attached
>> > along the way), which was not used by the ACi tree. This patch also
>> > changes
>> > this format to ensure the json responses returned by the application are
>> > consistent.
>>
>> Thanks for the patches.
>> These changes are already been done in my current development work, which
>> is still a WIP. (Hence - it has not been checked-in/shared.)
>>
>> Thanks any way.
Oh, they are?
> Is there a public branch where I can see this WIP ?
I assume it's all on his laptop. We (the pgAdmin project) have never
published WIP branches that I can recall, except for GSoC projects.
> As for the other proposals regarding the structure of the javascript code and
> the module / hooks API, do you have any comment ?
It's been on my personal TODO for a little while to sort out that code
into a proper OO class hierarchy as you suggest. Is that something you
would like to take a look at Ronan? I won't be touching it for quite a
while as I'm overloaded at the moment (which is why I asked Ashesh to
help out).
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