Dustin - thank you for the incredibly useful reply! I now understand the differences and this should help those in the future confused by the same things.
On Nov 13, 12:42 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Imagine you created a gameappand would like to storedatafor it. > > GlobalData: Thisdatais available on a large scale, that is, it is > available to your application regardless of where it is placed. Forinstance, > if Jane and Jill both place your game application on their > profile, the globaldataset and retrieved will be exactly the same > for both Jane and Jill's copy of the game. This could be useful for > storing something like High Scores. > > InstanceData: Thisdatais available only to the specific copy > (instance) of the game (app). So if Jane and Jill both place your game > on their profile, the game will be able to store uniquedata. In this > case, Jane's game cannot access Jill's game's uniquedatastorage > (instanceData) and likewise. An example use for this may be if a game > requires the 'state' of the game to be saved or you would like to keep > High Scores separated for eachinstance. > > PersonAppData: relates to adatastore for an individual with > relation to theappon a global scale. Meaning that both Jill and > Jane's copy of the game will be able to access the samedatafor a > Person, but other applications will not have access to your > application'sdatafor that person. The key here is that you're > storingdataunder a person with relation to anapp. So if you try to > access thatdatafor the same person from a differentapp, it won't > exist. An example use would be 'High Scores for Jill' (or jane), or > allowing users to save their game. > > On Nov 10, 6:12 pm, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sure I'm just not looking in the right place, but I can't seem to > > find any description of what the differences between the Global, > >Instance, and Person versions of Persistentdataare. Can anyone > > explain what each one is? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial API Definition (was OpenSocial Developers)" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
