Hi jhouk-

Sorry for delay in response -- there was a mistake in the protocol doc. The
createWavelet operation actually creates a new wavelet inside a new wave. I
have updated the doc.

You would be able to accomplish that using the new API.

- pamela

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:49 AM, jhouk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pamela,
>
> Thanks for mentioning this again--I had missed it the first time it
> was announced.  Can you go into a little more detail how we would use
> a robot RPC in the new wire protocol to create new waves?  The closest
> thing I can find is the robot.createWavelet() API, but the description
> of that API states that the wavelets are created "within the robot's
> current wave" and the WaveID is one of the wavelet parameters (that we
> presumably wouldn't have a value for yet if we're trying to create a
> new wave).
>
> There seem to be a lot of developers, my team included, who would love
> to use Wave embedded in our sites, but many of us will need to be able
> to create new waves programmatically for this to work.  Is
> robot.createWavelet() how we would do this, or should we be looking at
> another API?
>
> For example, suppose I was building a Forum tool that used embedded
> waves instead of traditional, slow forum mechanisms to share posts.
> When a user clicked "New topic" on my site, if I was using Wave, my
> backend code would need some way to create a brand new wave from Wave
> to embed in the new topic.  The robot RPC seems like a good mechanism
> to do this, but I don't see actual support for this sort of task in
> the new API.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> --Justin
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 6:07 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The new robots API is something we've mentioned in the
> forum/tracker/office
> > hours, and will be based on the new Robots Wire Protocol draft that we
> > posted here. There are various improvements, but one of the primary
> > improvement is the ability for robots to make calls actively (i.e. not in
> > response to events).
> >
> > We are working to release it before mid-February (so you can write
> > Valentine's Day robots :).
> >
> > We'll be previewing sample robots made with it at a few upcoming events -
> > the LCA Wave mini-conference, and the Melbourne GTUG event.
> > There are public waves for both of those events, so you can watch them
> for
> > relevant notes.
> >
> > - pamela
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM, qMax <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > Seems like i missed something.
> >
> > > What is the new robots API?
> > > What are the improvements?
> >
> > > Robot client libraries were not updated for last month.
> > > Are they available only in Melbourne?
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