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Ah man, this is perfect! finally a way to get simple servers running with very little hassle. One major feature I would like is the ability to specify cells fo
by IIAOPSW 11y ago
Ah man, this is perfect! finally a way to get simple servers running with very little hassle.
One major feature I would like is the ability to specify cells for I/O. Eg in some sort of "my api" console I could say "/custom_api, {stuff:A5, things:A6}, B2". Then requests to GET /custom_api would plug in the key-value of "stuff" into A5 and "things" into A6 and then respond with whatever is in B2.
Once more useful features are up, the ability to disable parts of the API (eg dump the whole spreadsheet) would be necessary.
Obviously you wouldn't build a large app with this, but I could see many traditional businesses using it for more than just prototyping.
- michaeloblak 11y agoThanks for the ideas! I'll consider them.
- osullivj 11y agoYou can do that with SpreadServe[1] now. Instead of Google docs it uses real Excel .xls spreadsheets and supports VBA and XLL addins. It turns your spreadsheets into async scriptable servers. There are Python & Java APIs. [1] http://spreadserve.com http://spreadserve.com
- comrh 11y agoIs this open source anywhere or just closed beta?
- osullivj 11y agoSome OSS here: https://github.com/SpreadServe https://github.com/SpreadServe Sign up for the beta here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/spreadserve https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/spreadserve AWS hosted instance: http://54.148.111.119:8888 http://54.148.111.119:8888 Docs: http://spreadserve.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://spreadserve.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- julienmarie 11y agoYou can do that also with http://calcfusion.com http://calcfusion.com ( disclaimer I work there ).