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Thanks Tim. I tried the approach you mentioned since both my container and the gadget server are from the same origin, however the post fails with a 500 error. The message I get is "Unable to write JSON". I can't run the example either. It fails with the same error. Am I missing something? Tyrell Tim Thelin wrote: | The gadget server is what has the direct access to fields like title (the | metadata), but the gadget server does not make your gadget's chrome (the | outer parts like the title bar, settings button, etc). So when your | container starts making the chrome around a gadget, it needs to contact the | gadget server to get the metadata from it. This can either be done | directly (XMLHttpRequest) or indirectly (your webserver does the http | request, passing back the results to your page). | | javascript/container/sample-metadata.html is an example of doing it directly | using XMLHttpRequest, but it only works if the gadget server is on the same | origin as the container. | | More likely (like in my case) you'll have to do this request indirectly by | having your webserver make the http request to the gadget server. Once your | webserver receives the json metadata response, it passes it to the container | javascript for use. | | -Tim | | | On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Tyrell Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Hi, | | I'm writing a dashboard page using the Shindig samples as a guideline | and noticed that the 'Title' attribute defined in a gadget xml is not | read (at least in the sample container pages). | | Is there a way to get the value given in the title attribute to be | displayed in the UI widgets title? | | thanks, | Tyrell | | |> - -- Tyrell Perera Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cell: +94 77 302 2505 "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFISD5iehFdPcgGx7oRAj9DAJ90OWzLObqnWYaNyK6lDlt/7Hu/MgCfX3Xb zqnV4tYS4B5i0uzfUc2g+0E= =FPZg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
