How about creating your unique IDs with opensocial.getEnvironment().getDomain() + ID
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:08:22PM -0800, jdavid.net wrote:
>
> is there a defined standard/ registration to guarantee a unique id
> given a user on a social network.
>
> we are looking at providing a widget that will need to store data for
> the user beyond the user persistence data cache, and we will need a
> globally unique idea between all users on all networks.
>
> i read somewhere that google recommended userid(s) that look like
> {userid} is [A-Za-z0-9]
>
> hi5:{userid}
> myspace:{userid}
> ning:{userid}
> orkut:{userid}
>
> in theory this is grand, but if we are addressing things based on
> REST, then
>
> : becomes %3A in the url or
>
> hi5%3A{userid}
>
> which does not seem as clean
>
> if we used +,_,-,. we might have a cleaner global id
>
> http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5+{userid}
> http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5.{userid}
> http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5-{userid}
> http://externalprovider.com/userid/hi5_{userid}
>
> what does everyone else think?
> it would be nice if openSocial just returned the global id, rather
> than a local one, so that widgets and sdks are not adding them.
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