On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Umashanthi Pavalanathan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > As part of the GSoC project on 'Adding Social Features to PhotArk' [0], > currently I am working on building a social API for PhotArk. > The purpose of this is to enable support for social features in the PhotArk > back-end and to enable persisting social data. As discussed in an earlier > thread [1], I am planning to build the API based on the Open Social data > specification 1.0 [2]. It has two parts: Primary Social Data[3] and > Additional Social Data[4]. Supporting the primary data is essential. I > would > like to know the thoughts of you about supporting the additional social > data, considering its usage in PhortArk. > Can you please explain a bit more what are additional social data > In my opinion, it will be fine to use String data type for fields like > Address, Organization, Name (firstname & lastname) etc. Your valuable > thoughts are much appreciated. > Yes I think String data type for the above fields are fine. > > > [0] > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PHOTARKxWIKI/Adding+Social+Features+to+PhotArk > [1] > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html#01141 > [2] > http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/1.0/Social-Data.xml > [3] > > http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/1.0/Social-Data.xml#primary-social-data > [4] > > http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/1.0/Social-Data.xml#rfc.section.3 > > Thanks, > ~Umashanthi > -- Avdhesh Yadav http://www.avdheshyadav.com http://twitter.com/yadavavdhesh
