Suggestion method for client and server communication.

kinrpg

Greetings friends,

I'm testing the following. I have a webservice running a database. In this database I have the history file of the player's events.

I want the game I've done in Gideros to connect to that server and download a list of XML or Json with this player history data and make that data available in an array or a variable.

Which method do you think is best for lua/gideros?

Soap? XML? Json? Sql? Get and Post HTTP?

Thank you.

hgy29

Do JSON over HTTP, either REST or JSON-RPC.

Soap is really complex to implement, far too rigid imho. XML is quite difficult to parse and generate. SQL is not really an exchange protocol, and anyhow you should never expose direct database access to the internet.

JSON on the other hand is quite fast to process, and gideros as a plugin for that, and UrlLoader will do the http part.

My servers have JSON-RPC support so I use that since I find it easier to deal with than REST, but most webservices I know do JSON REST.

kinrpg

Tanks
I teste this.

talis

If you have time, a tutorial on this subject will be great contribution @kinrpg to the community

Apollo14

If you have time, a tutorial on this subject will be great contribution @kinrpg to the community

Truly!

kinrpg

talis said:

If you have time, a tutorial on this subject will be great contribution @kinrpg to the community

Leave it to me. When I do this I will document a step by step.

talis

Perfect @kingpr , i wish you luck. It will be really a great contribution.