[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

[Ian Bicking]

Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Blake Winton wrote:
>>> I'd personally love to see a common set of request/response/session
>>> objects (a la Paul's webstack) be adopted.
>>
>> Isn't that what WSGI offers?
> 
> Perhaps I need to look closer but my assumption after a pass through the 
> PIP a while ago was that it was more of standard way of getting the 
> information to and from the framework ("middleware") and likely not 
> meant to reach the presentation and controllerish code.

Well, at a certain level you could create the request object that you 
desire given the WSGI environment, and possibly extract that environment 
from request objects that already exist.  However, that leaves an API 
disconnect that would probably be a bit uncomfortable.  Admittedly, for 
ZPTKit I made a dictionary-like request object to make the transition 
from Zope easier (and because dictionary-like requests are easier to use).

I would like to see a more limited set of request object APIs, but you 
can't really do that in a backward-compatible way.

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