[BioSQL-l] Web front-ends to BioSQL

[Mark Schreiber]

I'm not against a DAS API to BioSQL but one strong point for a webservices
API is the number of generic programing tools and workflow tools that can
consume webservices.
Maybe the DAS API could be a wrapper to a webservices API? Could this be
done by intercepting the DAS calls and reformatting them as webservice
calls?

- Mark

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:

> I agree, but I also think one of the questions that should be devoted
> significant thought to is in which ways and to what extend such a
> web-service API needs to be or has to be different from DAS (or DAS/2, which
> allows write-back).
>
> The DAS model is a bit different from BioSQL's in that it doesn't
> distinguish between sequences and sequence features. But I'm not that alone
> suffices to motivate a completely different API.
>
>        -hilmar
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Mark Schreiber wrote:
>
>  Hi -
>>
>> My feeling is that the diversity of languages and frameworks within
>> languages would mean that a generic web front end to BioSQL will and
>> should never materialize. What would be a lot more sensible is a
>> generic API in the form of a webservice or collection of webservices
>> that could be used by (theoretically) any web frame work to generate a
>> website.
>>
>> User preferences and requirements will be far too diverse for a
>> generic web front end.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On 1/31/09, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Another article (as pointed out by Heikki on bioperl-l):
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Healthcheck-Perl-The-Perl-Future--/features/112388/0
>>>
>>> The last section is all on MVC-oriented frameworks.
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Gudmundur A. Thorisson wrote:
>>>
>>>  We use Catalyst MVC framework for our project (
>>>> http://www.hgvbaseg2p.org
>>>> ). Very good stuff, we combine it with the DBIx::Class ORM and
>>>> Template Toolkit as the templating engine. Totally recommended.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>              Mummi
>>>>
>>>> On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:45, Chris Fields wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Perl web application framework: Catalyst and Jifty (have not tried
>>>>> them myself).  RoR gets a lot of press, but I understand the RoR
>>>>> devs tend not to listen to the core ruby devs and (as a
>>>>> consequence) had recently run into issues with the 1.8.7 ruby
>>>>> release, detailed by the always-entertaining chromatic here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/37125
>>>>>
>>>>> chris
>>>>>
>>>>>  My $0.02, and I'd be keen so see what comes out of this. If
>>>>>> there's something I can do to tip the balance towards something
>>>>>> tangible happening, let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        -hilmar
>>>>>>
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