autocomplete list behavouir

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:42 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 08:53 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >> 
> >> You are thinking version 3.0. I'm thinking MUCH simpler
> >> 
> >> - URL to request unique ID (let's make them 64bits so we don't run out
> >> so quickly)
> >> 
> >> - second URL where you deliver the data simply with a structured
> >> request -
> >> http://subsurface.hohndel.org/divesites.html?lat=xxx.xxxx&long=yyy.yyyy&site=URL-encoded-location
> >> 
> >> - third URL where you can pick up the data from (just some JSON -
> >> maybe you include a data range in the URL to make it easier to pick
> >> relevant ones) 
> >
> > Would something like this follow your idea ?
> > https://gist.github.com/3820711
> >
> > This is quick and dirty, I don't make use of the templates and the DB
> > doesn't exist yet but that can be rather quickly fixed.
> >
> > I do think that the date and time could be sent by the phone (although
> > we can make the time optional).
> >
> > If this follows your idea I'll expand on this :)
> 
> Yes, this very much follows my idea :-)
> 
> One request:
> 
> Call it Subsurface Companion or something like that (and capitalize
> Subsurface where you use the name). SubWeb sounds odd to me :-/
> 
> Also, I assume that normal users would never use URLs 2 and 3, so I
> don't think we even need to offer them in the web interface, do we?
> 
> URL 2 would be used by the phone app
> URL 3 would be used by subsurface itself to get the dives / locations

That's right although imho the user shouldn't even see the first one. I
need to make things more user friendly.

Btw, regarding the framework, is flask and SQLAlchemy fine for you?
I can look at others if needed but I like flask also for its limited
number of dependencies.

Pierre