[Zope3-Users] url traversal and jsonserver

Pete Taylor baldtrol at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 15:08:08 EDT 2006


hi all,
i've been looking at jsonserver recently, and am very impressed. 
however, my question doesn't really involve jsonserver functionality,
so much as it does a bit of url traversal indirection.

i have a simple "dashboard" like approach to a particular user
interface design, where most of the content displayed to the user is
determined by content associated with her/his principal id.  like
principal annotations sorta, only I needed/wanted a little more direct
control.  also, all of the content for a user is held in a
registration utility, in ++etc++site.  i've been using viewlets and
formlib to give the users access to their data without actually having
it in the standard traversal path.  that way no smart user can think
"hmm, my url is some/path/my_user_id, let me ry some/path/johnsid"
etc.  to them my.site/Consumer" is all they need to see, which I like.

what i would like to do is set up jsonrpc:view's for a number of the
different content objects that the user has access to in her/his
content directory.  the trouble, for me, comes in when i need to give
the javascript a ServiceProxy address.

while i can probably figure out how to pass a particular url path to
the javascript through some tales construction, it occurs to me that
the object that jsonrpc view is actually providing a json-rpc view ON
is under ++etc++site.  i can't really pass that to the javascript,
since I don't think ++etc++site is going to let the javascript (with
the current principl's authority) connect.

so what I'm wondering about is how to expose content held in a
traversal path like
"http://my.site/++etc++site/MyRegistrationUtility/ConsumerStuff/some_user_id/stuff"
to a json-rpc ServiceProxy.

is it possible?  is there a way i could get at this more indirectly? 
would principal annotations provide a better means of url exposure for
picking up a serviceproxy?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or comments!
Pete

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