Hi all,
I am bringing this up every once in a while. There is no need to discuss the need for it again. I am simply interested in a proof of concept and collecting thoughts.
GNUmed has a wxpython based client. It is a wrapper around GTK on GNU/Linux. In the past I have wondered what it would take to hack a web interface for GNUmed.
There a far too many web toolkits to choose from. One of the ideas is to use a toolkit that will allow reuse of existing code as rewriting (e.g. the middleware) not feasible.
Toolkits that come to mind and have some userbase are Django, Turbogears and Pylons. All of them provide access to the PostgreSQL database and make use of python. However all of them are designed to talk to the database bypassing our middleware. Replicating the middleware makes no sense.
It is possible to reuse the midlleware we have. It can be done through XML-RPC. Mere chance has it I came across TinyERP Web on freshmeat. Digging a little deeper it looks like the solved the same problem. They have a default GTK-Client and now came up with a web-client based on Turbogears. They use XML-RPC. I am not sure if they use it to access what I would call the middleware. However if anyone wants to have a go at this here is their code to look at http://www.openerp.com/download/old/eTiny-1.0.1.1.tar.gz If you are going to attempt that I recommend to:
- create a webbased log-in dialog which resembles the fat client dialog.
- reuse GNUmed's python middleware for the connection
- glue it together by using XML-RPC to talk to the middleware
- implement a page that shows that you are actually connected to the GNUmed database
There is a project called 'medical'. It tries to implement an EMR on top of OpenERP which is the current version of TinyERP - the software the above webinterface is for.
http://medical.sourceforge.net/
Have fun,
Sebastian
I am bringing this up every once in a while. There is no need to discuss the need for it again. I am simply interested in a proof of concept and collecting thoughts.
GNUmed has a wxpython based client. It is a wrapper around GTK on GNU/Linux. In the past I have wondered what it would take to hack a web interface for GNUmed.
There a far too many web toolkits to choose from. One of the ideas is to use a toolkit that will allow reuse of existing code as rewriting (e.g. the middleware) not feasible.
Toolkits that come to mind and have some userbase are Django, Turbogears and Pylons. All of them provide access to the PostgreSQL database and make use of python. However all of them are designed to talk to the database bypassing our middleware. Replicating the middleware makes no sense.
It is possible to reuse the midlleware we have. It can be done through XML-RPC. Mere chance has it I came across TinyERP Web on freshmeat. Digging a little deeper it looks like the solved the same problem. They have a default GTK-Client and now came up with a web-client based on Turbogears. They use XML-RPC. I am not sure if they use it to access what I would call the middleware. However if anyone wants to have a go at this here is their code to look at http://www.openerp.com/download/old/eTiny-1.0.1.1.tar.gz If you are going to attempt that I recommend to:
- create a webbased log-in dialog which resembles the fat client dialog.
- reuse GNUmed's python middleware for the connection
- glue it together by using XML-RPC to talk to the middleware
- implement a page that shows that you are actually connected to the GNUmed database
There is a project called 'medical'. It tries to implement an EMR on top of OpenERP which is the current version of TinyERP - the software the above webinterface is for.
http://medical.sourceforge.net/
Have fun,
Sebastian
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Toolkits that come to mind and have some userbase are Django, Turbogears and Pylons. All of them provide access to the PostgreSQL database and make use of python. However all of them are designed to talk to the database bypassing our middleware. Replicating the middleware makes no sense.
What do you think about using ORM in GNUmed in order to abstract things a bit?
Otoh, amongst Django, Turbogears and Pylons I'd always choose Django...
However, Nokia advertises Qt as "Qt: Everything you need to create web-enabled desktop, mobile and embedded applications."
Sincerely,
Gour
I have no idea about the ORM concepts. I was told in a forum that ORM does not make sense for GNUmed when a middleware already exists.
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