The group working on OpenSocial templates is working on a proposal for how to declaratively define the set of data passed into templates.
In discussions, it looks like OpenSocial may need a declarative syntax in other places: - Data preloading - (possibly) to define what data gets sent to the 3rd party server for the type="proxied" proposal Because this impacts other parts of the spec, we'd like to encourage people interested in this topic to get involved in the design. There will be opportunity to give input at all phases of the process, and the final decision is always put up to a vote on the main spec list. However we'd much prefer to hear your feedback sooner. An example of the kind of syntax we're looking at: - Replacing req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER), "get_owner"); - With <os:PersonRequest key="get_owner" id="OWNER"> and links: - Template discusison group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/os-templates/ - In progress proposal for pipelining: http://wiki.opensocial-templates.org/index.php?title=OpenSocial_Data_Pipelining So... please get involved if you have ideas about how data requests should be defined. Evan
