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okfn / dataproxy

Web application (targeted at appengine) to proxy data from certain data types into a JSON-P data type so that users can create mashups against remote data sets.
http://jsonpdataproxy.appspot.com/
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Convert to Flask #5

Open rufuspollock opened 12 years ago

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

We are currently using a prototype "pipes" framework from James Gardner which is no longer in use (a legacy of the original genesis of this on a hackday in Autumn 2010!)

We should switch to Flask on Appengine - cf https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template

Aside: should we also switch from app-engine to say Heroku so we can use pure Flask without faffing around?

nigelbabu commented 12 years ago

Switching to Flask probably makes it easier for new contributors to help out. Flask has good documentation and a nice community. I'm not so sure about Flask on Appengine, mostly because I've never used Appengine before and I've always deployed my flask apps directly on a server I own.

As someone who's not touched Google Appengine, this code is a bit hard to grokk and hard to setup an env for. Switching to pure Flask is what I'd vote for, and I might be able to find time to help if someone can help me understand the current code base.

rossjones commented 10 years ago

The env for appengine is a single .yaml file which does your routing ( https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig#Python_app_yaml_About_app_yaml ) and using flask is pretty well documented - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/getting-started-with-flask

morerunes commented 10 years ago

I've been writing some flask applications recently, and if you want me to take a whack at migrating this codebase to flask let me know. I'd certainly be interested in trying!

-- edit --

Maybe I'll just give it a try and make a pull request. I just realized this issue has been open for two years.

rossjones commented 10 years ago

Thatd be cool.