Addressbook

Introduction

This page describes how to setup the Addressbook example application using the Flex SDK and SQLAlchemy.

This example demonstrates loading and saving persistent objects with lazy-loaded values.

Check the SQLAlchemy Adapter page for more info on using SQLAlchemy with PyAMF.

A live demo can be found on the PyAMF blog.

Contents

• Addressbook
  • Download
  • Gateway
    • Options
  • Clients
    • Flash Player
    • Python
      • Options

Download

Clone the PyAMF repository with:

git clone git://github.com/hydralabs/pyamf.git pyamf
cd doc/tutorials/examples/actionscript/addressbook-example/python

Alternatively, if you just want to have a look, you can browse the example online.

Gateway

Note: make sure you have SQLAlchemy >= 0.4 installed.

The remoting gateway for the Adobe Flash Player and Python AMF clients starts on http://localhost:8000 when you launch the development server:

python server.py

You should see something like:

Running SQLAlchemy AMF gateway on http://localhost:8000
Press Ctrl-c to stop server.

Options

When you run python server.py –help it will display the various options available for this example server:

Usage: server.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PORT, --port=PORT  port number [default: 8000]
  --host=HOST           host address [default: localhost]

Clients

Flash Player

You can simply open the SWF file and it will connect to http://localhost:8000.

Python

The Python AMF client can be started by running the following from the python folder:

python client.py

You should see something like this for the client:

Added user: Bill Lumbergh
Load users:
    1. Bill (2009-12-26 19:45:22.522754)

And the server prints:

2009-12-26 20:45:22,470 DEBUG [root] remoting.decode start
2009-12-26 20:45:22,471 DEBUG [root] Remoting target: u'ExampleService.insertDefaultData'
2009-12-26 20:45:22,471 DEBUG [root] remoting.decode end
2009-12-26 20:45:22,472 DEBUG [root] AMF Request: <Envelope amfVersion=0>
 (u'/1', <Request target=u'ExampleService.insertDefaultData'>[]</Request>)
</Envelope>
2009-12-26 20:45:22,536 DEBUG [root] AMF Response: <Envelope amfVersion=0>
 (u'/1', <Response status=/onResult>u'Added user: Bill Lumbergh'</Response>)
</Envelope>
localhost - - [26/Dec/2009 20:45:22] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 57
2009-12-26 20:45:22,541 DEBUG [root] remoting.decode start
2009-12-26 20:45:22,541 DEBUG [root] Remoting target: u'ExampleService.loadAll'
2009-12-26 20:45:22,541 DEBUG [root] remoting.decode end
2009-12-26 20:45:22,541 DEBUG [root] AMF Request: <Envelope amfVersion=0>
 (u'/2', <Request target=u'ExampleService.loadAll'>[u'org.pyamf.examples.addressbook.models.User']</Request>)
</Envelope>
2009-12-26 20:45:22,545 DEBUG [root] AMF Response: <Envelope amfVersion=0>
 (u'/2', <Response status=/onResult>[<models.User object at 0x10285c750>]</Response>)
</Envelope>
localhost - - [26/Dec/2009 20:45:22] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 865

Options

When you run python client.py –help it will display the various options available for this example client:

Usage: client.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PORT, --port=PORT  port number [default: 8000]
  --host=HOST           host address [default: localhost]