Awesome, great info!

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, John Hjelmstad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gabriel:
>
> Great to hear! As luck would have it, Charles Severance recently wrote up
> some documentation on how to add a new API to the social-api server here:
>
> http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2010/07/playing-with-shindigopensocial-adding-a-new-feature-and-a-service/
>
> I suspect this will provide a nice bootstrap for your needs, in concert w/
> the spec itself. Parameter name "body" should give you access to the
> request
> body, from [Social]RequestItem.getParameter(...).
>
> As for the implementation itself, perhaps this is obvious but I'd suggest
> something like:
> 1. Introduce base interface for persistence ie.
> ContentUpload[Persistence|Service], with operations read(...) and
> write(...), in:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/java/social-api/src/main/java/org/apache/shindig/social/opensocial/spi/
> 2. Introduce default implementation (eg. filesystem-based) for #1.
> 3. Write ContentUploadHandler in:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/java/social-api/src/main/java/org/apache/shindig/social/opensocial/service/
> ,
> with persistence @Inject'ed
>  - Implements the real semantics of the API per spec.
> 4. Don't enable use of the default handler (#2) by default; you don't want
> to enable new functionality that uses nontrival hardware resources w/o
> service providers being aware. Instead document the default handler (for
> testing) and indicate how a custom such handler may be supported.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Gabriel Guardincerri <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I'm going to start adding this feature to shindig, I will be working with
> > the Java version. Any start points/advices about this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Gabriel Guardincerri <
> [email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > I'm interested in having that feature, so I could probably contribute
> to
> > > Shindig instead of making a workaround. Do you have an idea of how hard
> > > would it be to add this to Shindig?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gabriel
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:31 PM, John Hjelmstad <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Gabriel:
> > >>
> > >> afaik you're not missing anything. This part of the opensocial 1.0
> > >> spec isn't implemented in Shindig yet. We'd be happy to accept
> > >> contributions. Do you use php, java, or both?
> > >>
> > >> John
> > >>
> > >> On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, Gabriel Guardincerri <[email protected]
> >
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this questions, but
> it
> > >> seems
> > >> > to be the more active. Please let me know if I need to post it in
> > >> another
> > >> > list.
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm using Shindig and I would like to be able to store files, things
> > >> like
> > >> > images, videos, word documents, etc. I've tried to do that but it
> > seems
> > >> to
> > >> > the REST services don't support headers with content types like:
> > >> >
> > >> > Content-Type: image/gif
> > >> > Content-type: multipart/form-data
> > >> >
> > >> > On the other side it seems that Opensocial Spec
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
> http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/1.0/Core-API-Server.xml#Content-Uploadhas
> > >> > a spec for doing that.
> > >> >
> > >> > So, am I missing something? If not, is this going to be supported or
> > >> there a
> > >> > way to extend Shindig to support this?
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks in advance,
> > >> >
> > >> > Gabriel
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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