Feature Request: Usable JSON-RPC API

[Oroku Saki]

The existing JSON-RPC Django implementations out there are limited and hackish. I've experienced:

this one: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/JSONRPCServerMiddleware (which is simple but not very Django-ish as it uses )

and this one: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/JSON-RPC (which starts out with the right idea of using views, but doesn't seem to Djang-ish upon further investigation:

from jsonrpc import jsonrpc_site
import myproj.myapp.views # you must import the views that need connected into urls.py and what is jsonrpc_site?
urls += patterns('', (r'^json/', jsonrpc_site.dispatch))

I think that JSON-RPC is important enough for an official well architected / well documented implementation that works well within the normal functionality of Django but I'm not experienced enough to offer a solution. That said, I am willing to spend a couple weeks working on it, with direction from more experienced programmers on here. (Maybe the existing frameworks are great and I'm too much of an amateur to understand their architecture. If that is the case, let me know and I'll close this and shut up.

My only initial thoughts are:
1) Perhaps the API should allow for an API class of API methods and when you register the class the methods become available.
2) Maybe the focus should be less on JSON-2 or 1.1 specs (since there appears to be some ambiguity in that group anyways) and more on usability and flexibility.

[Oroku Saki]

I'm serious about contributing a lot of time to this with the advice of some pros so if this is the wrong place for this request, please help me before deleting it, as I would love to contribute.

[Alex Gaynor]

I'm of the opinion that this shouldn't be something in Django itself, marking as DDN.

[Oroku Saki]

If somebody with experience in this area can help me spec this out, I will build it. I can code and have quite a bit of OOP experience (ie, I write good code), but I have little JSON-RPC experience. Seeing how popular all API related technologies are becoming, it would be nice to have a well implemented well interfaced version.
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The middleware version I mentioned doesn't allow for access to request so you get no easy session access, no URL based queries (like www.myapplicationsite.com/json/myaccountnumber/). Needless to say, this is not ideal.

[Oroku Saki]

After much searching, I've come across the holy grail: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Jsonrpc. Closing this ticket.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.3 deleted