Using the BaseX REST interface from JavaScript

> Hi, > > I'm new at this, so please excuse if I missed something obvious... > > BaseX implements a REST interface via basexhttp and JavaScript > frameworks like Ext JS allow you to use a REST interface for accessing > data. So I thought it may be possible to create a Web interface to a > corpus stored in BaseX that enables users to search the corpus and > update the annotations *without* writing server-side code. > > The first obstacle I encountered is that under the same-orgin policy > browsers consider localhost and localhost:8984 two separate domains and > inhibit XmlHttpRequests calls, and basexhttp seems not to support > cross-origin resource sharing (see <http://enable-cors.org/>). > > Using BaseX as a data store for an Ext JS component without having to > write server-side code seems very attractive. However, I'm now > wondering whether this approach makes sense at all. Has anybody tried > to do something like this? > > Thanks in advance! > > Best regards > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <mxp at cl.uzh.ch> > Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich > Phone +41 44 63-54313 | OpenPGP public key ID 0x1614A044 > * OUT NOW: Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology > * <http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-23137-7> > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

On 2011-12-17, Maximilian Gärber <mgaerber at arcor.de> wrote: > you should have a look at this basex sub-project: > https://github.com/micheee/xquery-webapp-skeleton > > Great stuff for developing web applications using XQuery - and you are free > to define your own REST-style API.