(This request is on the wishlist page, but this provides a forum for
discussing it)
Offering a method tentatively called 'container.supports()' will allow
developers to test various features of the container.
For example, ning (as of this moment) doesn't appear to support canvas
pages. That's
You're absolutely right and I think google should at least be more
sympathetic about us, tell us that this feature is not working yet and
let us know if or when this will be ready instead of letting us -
developers - get all excited about it and then get hugely disappointed
with all this
Can't you dump the variables into cookies?
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Documentation clearly states this _should_ work, but indeed my own
first steps into this area also have shown that it doesn't yet.
so far they've really just implemented the people gadget api, and the
rest seems to be mostly work-in-progress, true 'alpha' and not 'beta',
let alone google
I want to access my orkut profile information using java.
Reading the docs I found I need to use this:
People Data API
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/gdata/people/developers_guide_protocol.html
I tried the following code to authenticate:
GoogleService myService = new
If an OpenSocial app can get a lidt of my friends and send it anywhere
via Ajax, It's possible to export my friend list?
/Jacob
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Yuppers, getting the same error with the scope equaling
sandbox.orkut.com/feeds
other API's like the Calendar work fine for me as well.
I guess, I'll come back at some point in the future and try again.
On Nov 6, 3:51 pm, Patrick Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am attempting to use the gData
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I have been trying for past 5 hours and i am still getting :
opensocial is not defined
var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();
can anybody guide me into this? Please note that i am getting the error even
using the example provided in the open social documentation
I think the situation and my experience is far worse. You cant build
an app that does any multipage flows. As soon as you leave the
main page (instantiated by gmodules.com), you get opensocial
is not defined errors. Forget multipages, I thought I was being
smart and created a frame pulling
person.getField ('picture') doesn't work for me. It keeps returning
null for all persons. Am I doing something wrong?
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Same here... getting the same error about opensocial not defined.
Jerome
On Nov 7, 12:31 pm, TylerKeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im getting the same thing. This wasnt happening last night. This is
new today.
On Nov 7, 10:22 am, OpenSocialCoderInSF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get this
Also consider that having a common data API will eventually allow for
the sharing of resources between networks. We just need to continue
the momentum and keep moving forward.
You are right... I am just skeptical... It is still a very promising
concept. A very very promising concept... I am
trying to get google calendar information so attempted authentication
in js as follow:
function logMeIn() { scope = http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds;;
var token = google.accounts.user.login(scope);}
which is straight from the calendar api examples.
instead of expected authentication page,
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:16:32AM -0800, MrGamma wrote:
Unless this OpenSocial concept intends to actually connect people
across networks allowing them to share their resources... friends
lists, messages, ect... then it does nothing but provide a way for you
to develop software for someone
Has anyone tried using behaviour.js with their OpenSocial gadget? I
can't seem to get the rules to apply to the iframe. No javascript
error thrown. I've been able to hook up Prototype and Scriptaculous,
but not Behaviour.
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I've just connected to my application and found that my user ID has
changed, so all my previous application settings were lost.
Has anyone else found this?
I'm hoping that this is a one-time update thing inside the sandbox,
because if we can't rely on user IDs being a unique identifier, then
I get this opensocial nto defined error from the javascript console
when loading my Gadget in orkut..this code is taken from the
examples..
At:
I cant do anything interesting with opensocial till they fix
the contenttype=url flows.
I'm not so sure anybody is going to be able to take out facebook... er
um... do anything interesting with openSocial... not until OpenSocial
becomes an open source project...
anybody tried including pictures (ie MediaItems) to the Activity? I
haven't had any luck with this at all...
On Nov 6, 5:52 pm, Suhail Doshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you add some friends on Orkut you'll notice that there is a feed of
application installations for sandbox users only at the
Hi Everyone,
OpenSocial features in Orkut are currently unavailable for everyone.
The 'opensocial is not defined' is due to a 503 when trying to fetch
the opensocial.js file.
We found the source of the problem and we're working to fix it now.
I'll post an update when I know more.
Sorry for the
Hi Everyone,
OpenSocial features in Orkut are currently unavailable for everyone.
The 'opensocial is not defined' is due to a 503 when trying to fetch
the opensocial.js file.
We found the source of the problem and we're working to fix it now.
I'll post an update when I know more.
Sorry for the
when using orkutor xapi instead of ot, the auth would pass.
but, still can't get any information. :) It is said that the dataAPI
hasn't released yet.
So keep waiting :) Or try other method. ..like hacking ^_^
joking...
On Nov 7, 6:13 pm, tainic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to
try
var thumbnail = person.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL);
The thumbnail var is a string tha stores the relative thumbnail address..
On Nov 7, 2007 9:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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person.getField ('picture') doesn't work for me. It keeps returning
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:29:56PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
person.getField ('picture') doesn't work for me. It keeps returning
null for all persons. Am I doing something wrong?
Try this instead:
person.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL)
Can you tell us where you
Thanks for that. We had the same problem. It kept on caching the
serverside data that was being returned.
- hobnobLover.
http://www.hobnobLover.com/
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Thank you, yes the sample apps are broken to.
On Nov 7, 1:26 pm, Lane LiaBraaten (Google)
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Hi Everyone,
OpenSocial features in Orkut are currently unavailable for everyone.
The 'opensocial is not defined' is due to a 503 when trying to fetch
the opensocial.js file.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:13:32PM +0530, Shiv N Gautam wrote:
Paul : The code is given here.
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget.html
That's odd. I see that the code listed there used the THUMBNAIL_URL
callling conventions, not the getField('picture')
I did a google
Paul : The code is given here.
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/firstgadget.html
On Nov 7, 2007 7:21 PM, Paul Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:29:56PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
person.getField ('picture') doesn't work for me. It keeps
Olly (a colleague of mine here at New Bamboo) has written up a blog
post about OpenSocial and Ruby on Rails, some might find it useful
and you can check it out here:
http://blog.nbwd.co.uk/2007/11/7/opensocial-with-ruby-on-rails
He's also written a plugin you can download to make routing
I don't think containers (orkut,myspace,etc) are going to allow ads on
apps.
On Nov 7, 1:14 pm, OpenSocialCoderInSF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adsense asks me for a URL but I am usiong the google editor so I do
not have my own URL/domain.
How can I get this going?
According to the OpenSocial API, there are 3 types of Media Types, but
none of them work in Orkut...
opensocial.Activity.MediaItem.Type.AUDIO
opensocial.Activity.MediaItem.Type.VIDEO
opensocial.Activity.MediaItem.Type.IMAGE
If you check for these values in Javascript, you get a message saying
ability to build a mashup using data from different Portals as
enunciated here:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/opensocial_social_mashups.html
On Nov 6, 4:59 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
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We are working on implementing a tracker for collecting OpenSocial
Thanks, I had forgotten about the refresh interval directive. It
works.
My plan is to replace caching with a combination of persistent storage
and the activities API to detect when certain things have changed, and
call the remote server only in those cases. It could be days or weeks
between
Excellent question. I am facing just the same problem: as I see, the
OWNER would customize my app (that is, save options to *his*
PersonAppData) and whomever sees the gadget on the OWNER's profile
should see it as configured by the OWNER.
But the lack of the ability of passing OWNER to
The favicon does not appear in the stream. That code I am using is:
var streamTitle = 'Sample code for reading and writing activity
stream';
var stream_params = {'url': 'http://samplestream.com', 'favIcon':
'http://mydomain/myimage.gif' };
var stream =
I had a problem like this. If your dynamicly building HTML with js,
Make sure that you run your behavior code after the HTML code has been
rendered on the page.
On Nov 7, 12:12 pm, 321blastoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried using behaviour.js with their OpenSocial gadget? I
can't
K , if I use an Ajax update instead of a iframe , then I think the
variables should be accessible juss some thoughts...
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It's the nature of the Google Groups... Welcome to the community...
Google employees will stop by to give authoritative answers every now
and then... but generally... it's a real forum style community... What
exactly are you having problems with? I'm not actually knee deep into
a social app
Ok thanx for the heads up on Containers Group.
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container/
Found some good threads there that may as well be cross linked here
for those just as confused.
Hi5 will release their implementation as opensource when Google
releases SDK. (that's a cause of
Yes... I believe you could make your own transport as well...
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/iframe.html
That link above should work in more browsers from what I remember
specifically IE Mac 5.2 ( not that I think it matters any more ) and
then there is the ajax stuff...
Must be something with your account? It works for me... no
redirects... 200 OK
I get redirected to a login page if I am not logged into my account...
clear your cookies maybe? your cache? restart your browser?
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Actually... I take that back... they have to do something about
security otherwise your going to have social apps potentially de-
indexing webpages from websites for malware reasons... really... I
just don't know... Google places restrictions on websites if they find
bad scripts on them... Some
Hello Toxic,
JavaScript ( Ajax ) is executed from within the browser window.
Technically a container or social network serving the code could not
actually stop it from executing once it was loaded into the browser
window.
Since an Ajax call is executed from within the clients browser nothing
Hi,
Please see our latest announcement here regarding the hi5 developer
sandbox and the release of our javascript glue code.
http://www.hi5networks.com/developer/2007/11/hi5-opensocial.html
http://code.google.com/p/hi5-opensocial/
This is all alpha quality code, but we intend to move
Why aren't there answers for all these basic questions? Can't google
afford to get someone on this? Really really annoying.
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specifically the OAuth authentication stuff looks nice...
On Nov 7, 9:16 pm, MrGamma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the nature of the Google Groups... Welcome to the community...
Google employees will stop by to give authoritative answers every now
and then... but generally... it's a real
Cool, it works now. I missed that sandbox step even though it was listed.
On 11/7/07, Paul Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Andy:
Can you check the browser location bar and insure that you're on the
sandbox server? You can also enter this URL directly:
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the possibly newbee question, but are we limited to using
google's _IG_FetchContent() inside of our open social gadgets, or is
it possible to use the one's from our own toolkit?
A lot of our code currently uses prototype.js (1.6.0 as of writing),
and depends on its
When I try to access the sandbox.orkut.com site I get redirected to
the live site (www.orkut.com).
Why is this happening? Is it a problem with my developer account?
I did get an email from google telling me I had been given access to
the sandbox.
Has anyone had this problem?
Thanks,
Fernando
(This is on the wishlist page and is here to enable discussion)
Quite frankly I'm sick of signing up to all these services to test my
apps. And there's not that many of them yet. Therefore I'll probably
just stick to developing against one or two of the more popular
container hosts.
Obviously
On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:50 AM, RickMeasham wrote:
On Nov 8, 1:41 pm, Chris Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for the possibly newbee question, but are we limited to using
google's _IG_FetchContent() inside of our open social gadgets, or is
it possible to use the one's from our own
Added a wish for an open sandbox requirement on all Container Hosts
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Hi,
You cannot use your custom ajax call, it won't work, but ...
You can use the old-fashioned way = an iframe :)
This works and you can emulate an ajax call using an iframe.
Regards,
Ignacio.
You'd then have to parse the result: you don't get back the vanilla
content but instead get back
There does not seem to be a way to do this yet.
On Nov 7, 7:16 pm, reuben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone see a way to invite friends to install your app? I've
looked through the javascript part of the Activity API, and I couldn't
see anything that would lend itself to this. I remember
I'm not sure if it'll work properly.
As apposed to the google gadget that aren't user based, the openSocial
apps will need to get the owners details - his friends, etc.
So if you don't have an account on that container, it'll have no data
to give you, you couldn't add friends in order to test
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