[Gambas-user] Gambas WebPage

[Caveat]

Nice one Benoit!

Will you call this technology GASP (Gambas ASP) or GAWP (GAmbas Web
Pages)? :-)

Will we have access to the Request and Response just like in asp/jsp?
How will we get params from decorated url/post?  It would be nice if
there were a standard means of accessing the params by name...

Kind regards,
Caveat

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 11:06 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have started the support of a new kind of "form" in the IDE, the 
> "WebPage".
> 
> WebPage is an HTML page with ASP-like syntax. It is implemented in the 
> gb.web component.
> 
> The IDE now can edit WebPage, but cannot compile them.
> 
> Actually it is "just" a matter of modyfing the compiler so that the 
> WebPage is transformed into Gambas code that generates the final HTML.
> 
> At the moment, the following ASP-like syntax will be implemented:
> 
> - <% ... %> to insert any Gambas code.
> 
> - <%= ... %> to insert the result of a Gambas expression. Html$() will 
> be automatically called.
> 
> - Maybe something like <%INCLUDE ... %> to include a WebPage in another one.
> 
> Note that the WebPage is a file with a ".webpage" extension, and that, 
> they have their own class file attached (like any form).
> 
> That way, you don't have to put all your code inside the HTML. Just what 
> is needed.
> 
> Internally all WebPages will inherit the WebPage class, and will have a 
> "Render" method to render their contents (i.e. print to the standard 
> output - don't forget that a Gambas web application is a CGI script!). 
> They can be startup class too.
> 
> I'd like to have the thoughts of Gambas users about that: what kind of 
> syntax you would like, what ideas you have...
> 
> One idea I have would be a standard syntax for the URL received by the 
> CGI script, so that the displayed WebPage would be automatically 
> selected from it. It could be something as simple as 
> "http://myapp.com/<form name>".
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
> 
> Regards,
>