[Radiant] Consume web service from extension

[Bill Rowell]

Sean,

I took a look at this and it was very helpful.  It gave me some ideas to
create a solution, which I've written about here:

http://www.billrowell.com/2007/05/20/radiant-cms-web-services/

-Bill

On 5/15/07, Sean Cribbs <seancribbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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