What's your use case? It sounds like you want to be able to access the opensocial functions from your server, which will be possible through the REST apis when they are released.
~Arne On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:44 PM, babygodzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmmm that sounds like the gadget sending a GET and POST request to the > app server. what about the other way around? that is, the app server > sending a GET or POST request to a user's gadget? > > On Mar 4, 12:31 pm, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > At present, gadgets can issue asynchronous requests and retrieve a > > text, JSON, or XML response. The requests can be used to fetch > > information from a server or post new information to a server. All > > users have a unique ID, which you can send along with these requests, > > and certain parameters can be signed in order to verify the > > authenticity of the request. More details are provided in the > > OpenSocial API specification: > > > > http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/spec.html#remote > > > > This is not intended to be a substitute for the REST API, but you can > > use it in the meantime if your application requires a server-side back- > > end. Please let me know if you have additional questions on this. > > > > - Jason > > > > On Mar 4, 9:22 am, babygodzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > I've been looking around for tutorials on how to modify a widget's > > > content from a remote Java app, but I couldn't find anything, or maybe > > > I just wasn't looking at the right place. In any case, my questions > > > are simple: > > > > > 1) Is it possible to do so with the current Open Social 0.7? > > > 2) How do I identify each user? Is there a persistent session key or > > > anything like that? > > > 3) How do I POST new content into the widget? > > > > > I wish the REST API would come out already. It'd be so much more > > > simpler than this gadget stuff... > > > > > Thank you!! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" 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-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
