If you are using Google Code, and let’s say that you want an issue addressed, like having ruby supported in GAE. Please, Please, PLEASE, use the star voting and avoid making comments that are simply “+1″. The more stars a defect has, the more attention it has, not the number of comments and especially the number of “+1″s.
Actually, you hurt the initiative to get an issue addressed when you make those comments. You see, when you star an issue, you receive emails when that issue gets updated or commented upon. So if an issue has 100 or so “+1″ comments, then whoever put a star on that defect is going to get 100 or so emails. After getting 20 inane emails, one might decide to remove the star from the issue, thus lowering it’s rating and hurting the campaign.
So please, if you want to help, just star the issue.
So after I used middleware to make browsers work with RESTful URLs in GAE, I started to write more than simple little methods and I’m trying to write a test application. Upon doing so, I ran into a defect with how request parameters are returned for a PUT request. To be fair, this is more of a problem with webob than with GAE, but I hope that this gets fixed because my attempts at monkey patching the problem have not worked out too well.
So there was much talk and whathave you about Google’s new App Engine, and after viewing the tutorials and reading the documentation, I thought it was pretty rad too. Because I was using rack for some previous stuff, WSGI felt right at home (probably because rack was modeled after WSGI). There was one thing that bothered me however. When writing a class using their webapp framework there isn’t any magic param name, like _method, that I could use to mock requests methods like DELETE and PUT since the browser doesn’t support those HTTP methods.
Well my friends, fear not. If you enjoy the sweet freedom of RESTful urls, I’m here to help. Since this is all built on top of WSGI, we can create a some new Middleware to sit before the application to resolve this little issue.
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