Implementing simple web interface, how?

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Cacio Watt · Aug 28, 2022

#Beginner #CSP #Frontend #InterSystems IRIS

Hi,

Over time I have created an house-automation solution based on IRIS:
90% of my code is pure ObjectScript, with the most recent 10% being the use of Python libraries for specific tasks.
All of the above being terminal based up to now.

I would like to expose some configuration options / parameters via a very simple web page, to be serviced with the IRIS private web service (so I don't want to use an external Webserver just for this..)

My question:
how should I approach the creation of this simple, one page, web page?
Should I write it manually, in the "old" CSP way, copying some examples from SAMPLES, or is there an easy and fast way to generate such a basic input page using some existing libraries and/or tools?

I am Mac based, using VS Code.
This is purely for my own internal need and use, so security/scalability etc play no role.

Thanks

Product version: IRIS 2022.1

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Robert Cemper · Aug 28, 2022

Your keywords >90% COS + SAMPLES indicate your background.
if you don't intend to win a prize in a contest adapting some CSP Samples will be fastest. Forget any ZEN.
And just call the CSP class. never the .CSP itself.
what I mean:
NOT http://localhost:56773/csp/samples/form.csp
BUT http://localhost:56773/csp/samples/csp.form.CLS

It's my quick and dirty approach

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Mario Sanchez Macias · Aug 29, 2022

To me, the simplest is CSP. You require an HTML file with some Server Side code, and you already have some samples.

A more modern (but also simple) would be REST. You require a little extra setup with ObjectScript class (To handle the REST) + HTML code + Javascript Code to call the rest pages.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2022-08-28T07:39:00-04:00

Nowadays I would not recommend plain CSP files at all, and for sure, and totally no ZEN.

I see that you use Python in some cases, I may recommend you use Django in that case, I wrote a few articles about it recently.

Or just do REST with %CSP.REST class, and do plain web application on plain HTML and JS, or may use ReactDOM (my application as an example).

score 1 · Answer 2 · 2022-08-28T14:12:50-04:00

Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 28, 2022

Use REST.

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score 0 · Answer 3 · 2022-08-29T05:11:08-04:00

I suggest to give a try Kozo by @Sean Connelly. It's a WYSIWIG editor for CSP pages that supports ObjectScript, SQL, charts, and other fancy visualization options.

can be easily installed ZPM:

zpm "install kozo"

score 2 · Answer 4 · 2022-08-31T07:01:32-04:00

I can also reccomend IRIS RAD Studio by @Henrique Dias and @José Pereira
- a simple and good-looking ready-to-go interface for persistent classes in IRIS.

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2022-09-12T20:20:06-04:00

Henrique Dias · Sep 12, 2022

Thanks @Evgeny Shvarov for the recommendation

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