PyQT app accessible over network?

[Michael Torrie]

On 02/22/2013 02:49 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> Web2py does seem pretty attractive in that it seems to come with a lot 
> of functionality rolled in already.  It seems to be pretty easy to 
> deploy... since this would be more of a case where the volunteer match 
> directors are not necessarily computer gurus, and something that can 
> literally run from a USB stick on nearly any computer has its benefits. 
>   I've seen some examples (I think) of twitter-bootstrap in some other 
> demos of flask, and it looked reasonably attractive without being too 
> over the top.  web2py's DAL seems fairly straight-forward too.  Looks 
> like I may have to get more fluent in CSS & javascript, though...

If you just use web2py to implement the database calls and business
logic, and to implement a simple, clean API (RPC really) for the clients
to talk to, then you can still use your non-web UI tools like PyQt.  But
as an added bonus you can do a web interface as well.  You'll have
flexibility either way.  A client is a client, whether it's web-bases
and running on the same server, or a remote app using RPC over HTTP.

I think all web-based apps should expose a web service (an API).  that
way you have flexibility to do a variety of front-ends.  Normal web
browser, mobile browser, a standalone app (think android or iphone).

As far as doing client/server stuff with just a database engine, unless
you have tight control over the environment end to end, from a security
pov, it's not a good idea to expose the database engine itself to the
internet.  Better to put a restricted web services API in front of it
that handles all the authorization needs (access-control) on the
detailed level that you require.