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Matt Todd

Improve Client Integration

Reported by Matt Todd | January 19th, 2008 @ 09:59 PM | in Release 0.6.0

Halcyon Clients integrate awkwardly, particularly for well defined client objects like ORM models like ActiveRecord.

A reasonable and sexy solution to including functionality into objects like ActiveRecord models should be available.

For example, a possible solution could include the following code producing the expected results: 

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Halcyon::Client::Integrations('http://localhost:5457')
  def self.authenticate(user,pass)
    instance_eval do
      post("/user/auth/#{user}", 'password'=>pass)
    end
  end
  def permit?(key)
    get("/user/permit/#{key}")
  end
end

This can be tricky for conflicting names of properties in the actual object for clients that provide custom methods (which is highly recommended to begin with).

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Matt Todd

    Matt Todd February 7th, 2008 @ 02:08 AM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”

    These changes won't be available until 0.5.0.

  • Matt Todd

    Matt Todd February 9th, 2008 @ 10:36 PM

    • Milestone changed from “Release 0.4.0” to “Release 0.5.0”

    Use this when referring to how to implement a simple Plugin for Rails:

    http://projects.jkraemer.net/act...

    For instance, this is how it would be invoked: 

    class Report < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_halcyon_client 'http://localhost:6467/'
  def status
    halcyon :status, id
  end
  after_create {|o| halcyon :generate_report, o.id }
end

    Or something like that. Should work out some details about having to write halcyon everywhere when your client could be called Axe or FishMonger or ReportManager or whatever.

  • Matt Todd

    Matt Todd March 7th, 2008 @ 02:07 AM

    Some changes to the client design may change how this is done, but this is still a huge necessity.

    One particular change will be the move from Halcyon::Client::Base to just Halcyon::Client.

  • Matt Todd

    Matt Todd April 14th, 2008 @ 03:21 PM

    • Milestone changed from “Release 0.5.0” to “Release 0.6.0”

    Moved to 0.6.0.

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