Lighting talk: a quick technical presentation on how to use jquery.pyproxy to add lightweight AJAX in Python.

1. Prettig Personeel
jQuery.pyproxy
Vincent Pretre - Zest software
14-09-10 - Plone user day - Rotterdam

2. Prettig Personeel
Products.plonehrm
collective.sendaspdf
collective.pdftransform
jquery.pyproxy

4. jQuery.pyproxy
replace KSS to handle Ajax
modify the DOM with Python

5. jQuery.pyproxy
easy to use on both client and server side
keep jQuery syntax
as extensible as jQuery

6. jQuery plugin
pyproxy: binds a
call to an event
pyproxy_call:
executes an Ajax
call and processes
the result.

7. Python module
@jquery: defines a
view as callable by
jquery.pyproxy
JQueryProxy: object
used to modify the DOM
extend_grammar:
defines plugins syntax

8. To infinity and beyond
Limitations:
chained call
save the query
function as parameters
Used on production for
months
Plone & Django versions.
Can be extended to other
frameworks