Make JSON-RPC jQuery plugin work with GAE ProtoRPC

Question

I am trying to make these two libraries work together. But I am not sure they can connect out of the box. Before using JSON-RPC plugin I did it successfully with standard $.ajax functionality. Could you please give me some short example of how a client-side function should look and the entry point for this on GAE side.

Or maybe there should be a special ProtoRPC jQuery library created to make this work easily?

JSON-RPC plugin homepage

Answer 1

ProtoRPC doesn't use the JSON-RPC message format. It uses a simpler format where each API method provides its own endpoint, rather than one endpoint that takes a method name as part of the request dictionary.

Here's the example they provide for $.ajax:

$.ajax({url: '/hello.hello',
          type: 'POST',
          contentType: 'application/json',
          data: '{ my_name: Bob }',
          dataType: 'json',
          success: function(response) {
            // The response is { hello: "Hello there, Bob!" }
            alert(response.hello);
          }
         });

Do you really need a special jQuery library for this? I'm not sure it can get much simpler.