SmartGWT / ASP.NET integration - how to do simple calls

[piotrgal]

Hi all,

I’m trying to find ways to integrate SmartGWT as a GUI client for .NET server-side / back-end.
I have read all kinds of articles and docs about DataService / RestDataService / etc, and all topics revolve around the data-service interfaces / architecture.

However I’m interested in something simpler – I would like to just call operations on the server, not data related, just simple calls like passing some args and getting back some values.
What are the best / recommended approaches to do that in SmartGWT (and SmartClient btw) ?

(I mean just for current / latest versions of SmartGWT / GWT / SmartClient)

Best regards,
Peter

[Blama]

Hi piotrgal,

did you read the Quick Start Guide PDF already? This might be the best start for you.

Best regards
Blama

[piotrgal]

Hi Blama,

Of course I have read the quick start PDF and could not find answer to my question there - it was also all about data-service stuff.
Can you point me which chapter do you mean?

Regards,
Peter

[Isomorphic]

Most of the time, even simple calls should be represented as DataSource operations. You will definitely want to implement the infrastructure for DataSource operations, probably using the approach shown here:

https://isomorphic.atlassian.net/wik...th+ASP.Net+MVC

Once this is in place, the simplest thing for even a non-data-related call is to just represent it as a fetch. This also allows it to be queued with other requests, and to be easily called by components such as a DynamicForm.

For the more unusual case of integrating with a pre-existing server call that you can’’t change, see RPCManager.sendRequest() and RPCRequest.useSimpleHttp.