I'm a relative Maypole newbie and I'm trying to plan for the future. I
know that in the future I would like to be able to make calls to my
application from Mambo CMS (PHP based) via SOAP or XML::RPC. I want to
make sure that what I am putting together right now will be able to grow
into that with ease. And in fact, it has been hinted at on the Maypole
site that a SOAP interface may eventually appear.
In a Maypole view class I am able to call methods which are
automatically created by has_a or has_many relationships. e.g.:
[% item.address.city %]
In this example the "item" (assume it's a person) has_a address which
has a city. In reality Class::DBI is going to do all the work here and
make some SQL queries on our database and return the information - all
transparent for me.
If this was done with SOAP what would happen? The Template Toolkit
and/or Mason (which is actually what I'm using) is relatively tightly
coupled to the model class. If I was making a remote procedure call what
would happen? Would the "address" method of the "item" object
automatically make a SOAP call to the backend? And if it did, would all
the automatically generated methods be :Exported? Or would the entire
object including has_a relationships (with possibly circular references)
be serialized and sent over the wire?
Would it be a good idea to package up all needed information into a
simplified object to be serialized right in my model class, or should I
keep making calls like the above example?
Does that make any sense at all?
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