On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Is the current metadata implementation documented somewhere? I'm working > on > a Firefox extension that could benefit from using such a service. No, just in source -- if we migrated it to a format closely matching the social data calls (JSON-RPC only at this point), most of the documentation would be done for us already. > > > ~Arne > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd actually like to see the metadata call reworked significantly to > > closely > > resemble the social data calls, and then we can provide JSONP support for > > all of them with some shared common code. > > Note that I'm *not* suggesting that social-api support the metadata call, > > simply that the metadata call can be used with the same syntax. This > makes > > it so that a client that has been authored to consume social data can now > > also consume gadget metadata. > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:42 AM, John Hjelmstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I've recently been talking with a few parties who are interested in > using > > > /gadgets/metadata functionality via JSONP. It's understood that use of > > the > > > API this way would be somewhat limited due to URL length restrictions, > > but > > > that seems reasonable since most use cases involve retrieval of > metadata > > > for > > > a single gadget. > > > This seemed reasonable to me since gadgets themselves contain no > > sensitive > > > information. The biggest con I had in mind is that callers would need > to > > be > > > careful about what UserPrefs (et al) they send as a GET. > > > > > > I'm happy to do the implementation myself, but wanted to air this idea > > with > > > the list in case I'm missing something key. > > > > > > Proposed impl: > > > > > > > > > /gadgets/metadata?req=<url-encoded-equivalent-of-POST>&callback=<arg.matches([a-zA-Z\.]+)> > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > --John > > > > > > > > > -- > OpenSocial IRC - irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial >
