Oh Okay. got my answer. sorry, was replying to an old post. Sorry n thanks.
Jason wrote: > Hi JSON. My mistake -- you're absolutely right. No VIEWER information > will be returned if the current user does not have the app installed, > and this is by design. > > Long story short, no, there is no way of getting around this > limitation at the moment; I imagine that the original consensus was > due to the fear that developers could store the IDs in order to track > users; even though this is fairly anonymous, if the user were to > install the application in the future, it would then be able to relate > all of the previous data (stored prior to the installation) with the > user. I don't see this changing, but you can always file a new request > in the public tracker and I'll take it to the orkut team. > > http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/wiki/IssuesTab?tm=3 > > - Jason > > On Sep 4, 9:31 am, JSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello Jason, >> >> Thank you for your reply. Actually, I was thinking if a user does not >> have the app installed - that the VIEWER object is not available and >> hence we can't even access opensocial id of that person? Is there >> another way of getting opensocial id? >> >> ~ JSON >> >> On Aug 29, 1:43 pm, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Yes -- if a user doesn't have an application installed, he has not >>> given that application access to his personal information in either >>> view. Basic info. like name, OpenSocial ID, and thumbnail/profile URL >>> should be available, even if the current user doesn't have the >>> application installed. >>> >>> - Jason >>> >>> On Aug 28, 12:49 pm, JSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> My understanding is VIEWER info is only available to an app if the >>>> user has app installed. Is that true for both canvas view and profile >>>> view? >>>> >>>> ~ JSON >>>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
