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Thanks for the demo and source. I am trying out Backbone and GAE too. What I wonder about and asked on StackOverflow but didn't get a clear answer is how to joi

• joetyson 15y ago
  There isn't really a mapping between backbones models and protorpc. Backbone.js assumes the model layer is RESTful where protorpc assumes you will make method calls, each via a POST call. I'm interested in what a model layer would look like using protorpc. One idea is to take a similar path of abstraction as the underlying appengine datastore api does: use protocol buffers to express an "entity". So you might have: { entity_type: 'Book', entity_fields: [ { field_type: int, field_name: 'title', required: true } ] } This would be a proto definition called, "Entity". From here you could build procedure calls that send entities for doing common routines, such as updates, or deletes. If you can make a structure like this work, you can build an api with javascript which hides the protobufs from you all together.. When you call Model.get('Book').create({title: 'My book'}), it constructs the Entity protobuf and calls the remote call for creating a new entity. Just an idea! Also - protorpc is in fresh development, so it's a good idea to join the discussion group and make suggestions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-protorpc-discuss https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-protorpc-disc...