Hello,
Ah that's interesting to know..
Well, in general the Entity ID can be anything that "makes sense" for a
particular context type.
Note that the IContext.open() method returns a String. This is supposed to
be the Entity ID of whoever opened the context. In the case of contexts that
are UN/PW authenticated (such as yours), it often makes sense to simply use
the UN as the Entity ID.
E.g. if I open my Google context with username "markus.sabadello", then it
makes sense to also use that as the Entity ID. I saw that your
IContext.open() implementation already returns the username, which is
exactly what I mean :)
So I think all that's missing is that you should return an IEntity if
someone calls IContext.getEntity("markus.sabadello"), if possible...
Markus
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Mohamad Raja Gani
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> There was no option in GData API at that time to map the authenticated user
> account to an IdAS Entity. But, when I searched the latest GData API
> (Version 1.33) documentation today, I could find a new ProfileEntry class
> that contains the logged-in user profile. I will try this out tomorrow and
> let you know if I could retrieve the user details.
>
> Can you please explain how should I expose this user's IdAS Entity from
> IContext? For example, is there a standard Entity ID that I can use to
> return the authenticated user Entity from IContext::getEntity(entityID) API?
>
> Thanks,
> Mohamad Raja
>
> Markus Sabadello wrote:
>
> Hi Mohamad,
>
> Not sure if you are still doing anything related to the Google CP which you
> contributed to Higgins, but I have a question.
>
> If I understand correctly, if I use it to access my "markus.sabadello"
> Google account, the CP will map all my Google contacts to IdAS Entities with
> some attributes. My question is, does it (or could it) also map my OWN
> account ("markus.sabadello") to an IdAS Entity? Or only my contacts?
>
> Or in other words, does the Gdata API you are using provide a way to read
> anything interesting about my own account, or only about my contacts?
>
> The reason why I'm asking is that if the CP could expose one's own account
> as an IdAS Entity, then we could use UDIs (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/UDI)
> to point to Google accounts in a globally resolvable way.
>
> thanks
> Markus
>
>
>
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