[Radiant] Consume web service from extension

[Sean Cribbs]

You might look at the LDAP extension for some ideas.  KCKCC.edu uses
(or used) the extension to hit an LDAP server on another machine.  The
concept is basically the same -- wrap the external service in some
object semantics you can live with, then write tags that allow you to
display the data.  Other than that, I have no experience interfacing
with web services.  If your backend Rails app is RESTful,
ActiveResource should do the trick.

Sean

On 5/15/07, Bill Rowell <billr578 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm relatively new to Radiant CMS.  I've had a little success with
> understanding how to develop extensions to do custom things for me in a new
> site I'm developing.  One thing I'd like to be able to do is consume a web
> service I wrote in another Rails application from my extension.  Is there
> any easy way to do this?  I was trying to do some things from my page class
> for my extension, however it hasn't worked out.  I'd appreciate some
> pointers if anyone has any advice on the correct way to accomplish this.
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Bill
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