Cassie, Thank you for the reply. Just a few more questions: 1) When you mention 'asking the gadget server' how would I go about doing this from the ActivitesService?
2) When you mention evaluating an activity on the way out, do you mean when I display the activity on my SNS? Thanks a lot, Brandon On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Validating the activity would be specific to your SNS. Do you allow > activities to be created for just the currently logged in user? Or can a > user create an activity for their friends? Do you have a length limit on the > title size? etc etc. That's all up to you. > > As for template expanding - I'm not sure if anyone has this yet. The idea > here would prob be to ask the gadgets server for the message bundle > corresponding to the titleId and then you would have to expand that template > using the activity's templateParams field. You could also evaluate on the > way out instead of on the way in so that you can present summaries of > activities. > > I don't think we will have more info than that until someone actually does > it... > Hope that helps. > > - Cassie > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Brandon Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm working on implementing an ActivitiesService for my SNS and I've >> come across this line: >> >> // TODO: Validate the activity and do any template expanding >> >> Any suggestions on how to validate an activity, or do template >> expanding. I'm especially interested in template expanding because I >> have a gadget I've written that is using it. I've looked around the >> Shindig PHP and noticed several references to Substitutions and such, >> but wasn't sure how to access any of that from the ActivitiesService >> class. Thanks, >> Brandon >> >> -- >> Brandon Peters >> > -- Brandon Peters
