Implementing simple web interface, how?
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
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).
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
Use REST.
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"
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.
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.
Thanks @Evgeny Shvarov for the recommendation