Prior to adding this to JIRA for Shindig I wanted to run it by the community to
see if anyone else has seen this before or if I might be interpreting the
OpenSocial API incorrectly.
I created a gadget which declares only one Content type (as outlined below) all
actual content and structure is being built in JavaScript and/or removed for
simplicity and security reasons:
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<Content type="html"></Content>
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Within the JavaScript I have declared to functions as defined below in a custom
gadget package called "myGroups" as to be able to have domain language for
accessing gadgets.views.ViewType information:
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myGroups.getViewName = function () {
return gadgets.views.getCurrentView().getName();
};
myGroups.navigateTo = function (destinationView) {
var supported_views = gadgets.views.getSupportedViews();
gadgets.views.requestNavigateTo(supported_views[destinationView]);
};
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Whenever the function myGroups.getViewName() is called the ViewType string
"profile" is always returned even after the successful request to view the
gadget within canvas was made with the following myGroups.navigateTo("canvas").
Though the gadget rendered in a maximized state the string which is being
returned for gadgets.views.getCurrentView().getName() is still "profile" and
not what I would expect "canvas".
A workaround / "fix" that I had to do was the following to the gadget.xml
specification.
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<Content type="html" view="canvas,profile,home"></Content>
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This leads me to believe that without explicitly requesting multiple views
Shindig will only assign one view to the single content tag declared. As a
fairly new (out of practice for 2.5 years) opensocial developer I wouldn't
imagine this was the intended use of this and that until I state otherwise if
there is a single content element within my gadget specification then that
content element should have support for all default views (similar to Android /
iOS application mentality ... just use the defined view to display on a device
which the application was explicitly designed/developed for aka "tablet
syndrome").
Am I just interpreting the views feature incorrectly or does this seem to be a
problem. I will be making a quick complete gadget to demonstrate this problem
this evening though wanted to start the discussion to be able to include in a
potential JIRA ticket.
Environment to replicate problem: Rave version 0.14-SNAPSHOT, Shindig version
2.5.0-beta2
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Trevor Mack
Software Systems Engineer (R501), Apache Rave
Application Development and Maintenance (KICS), R501
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