Re-posting to shindig-dev > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:opensocial- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 6:00 AM > To: OpenSocial - OpenSocial and Gadgets Specification Discussion > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [opensocial-and-gadgets-spec] Query regarding SortOrder > > > Hi Shindig Dev, > > I was just looking at the code and tried to relate things with the > spec. I found some inforrmation from API reference and some from > Restful Specification. I am a bit confused with what I read. > > The point is related to SortOrder parameter in request. > > Accroding to API (0.8.1) > http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.8/reference/#opensocial.D > ataRequest.SortOrder > SortOrder can be Top_Friends and Name for the People (there is nothing > mentioned about activities & AppData sort order.) > > According to Restful protocol specification (0.8.1) > http://www.opensocial.org/Technical-Resources/opensocial-spec- > v081/restful-protocol > (section 6.5) > SortOrder can be Ascending or Descending, default ascending. It does > not say anything about service for which this SortOrder can be > used(People/Activity/AppData) > > > In PHP code > JsonDbOpensocialService::getPeople() uses CollectionObject to get > SortOrder and by looking seems that it is meant to work on TopFriends > and Name. > > and in ActivityService->getActivities() uses sortBy parameter but not > using sortOrder. by looking at the code it seems that it does not > expect anything related to sorting that is supported by the API. > > So, now my point of confusion is do we need sorting for Activities ? > if not then what is the meaning of sortOrder parameter in Restful > Apecification and ActivityService->getActivities(). Is it me who is > not getting it right or there is a mismatch in API refernce and resful > specification ? > > Please clarify. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:19 PM > Subject: Re: Query regarding SortOrder > To: [email protected] > > > It's important to keep in mind that shindig implements the OpenSocial > specification, and in this case indeed the specification doesn't say > much > about the sort order on activities and app data.. the same can be said > about > support for paging on the same result sets. > > There is a proposed patch to add paging to activities: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-668 but as Paul Lindner > pointed out in that issue, it might be better to apply the same > CollectionOptions on those result sets too. > > But, to be able to do this it first needs to become spec, and then we > can > implement it; So could you please post this question to the > opensocial-gadget-and-spec list? > > Thanks! > > -- Chris > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Astha Bhatnagar < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Shindig Dev, > > > > I was just looking at the code and tried to relate things with the > spec. I > > found some inforrmation from API reference and some from Restful > > Specification. I am a bit confused with what I read. > > > > The point is related to SortOrder parameter in request. > > > > Accroding to API (0.8.1) > > > > > http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.8/reference/#opensocial.D > ataRequest.SortOrder > > > > SortOrder can be Top_Friends and Name for the People (there is > nothing > > mentioned about activities & AppData sort order.) > > > > According to Restful protocol specification (0.8.1) > > > > http://www.opensocial.org/Technical-Resources/opensocial-spec- > v081/restful-protocol(section<http://www.opensocial.org/Technical- > Resources/opensocial-spec-v081/restful-protocol%28section> > > 6.5) > > SortOrder can be Ascending or Descending, default ascending. It does > not > > say > > anything about service for which this SortOrder can be > > used(People/Activity/AppData) > > > > > > In PHP code > > JsonDbOpensocialService::getPeople() uses CollectionObject to get > SortOrder > > and by looking seems that it is meant to work on TopFriends and Name. > > > > and in ActivityService->getActivities() uses sortBy parameter but not > using > > sortOrder. by looking at the code it seems that it does not expect > anything > > related to sorting that is supported by the API. > > > > So, now my point of confusion is do we need sorting for > Activities/AppData > > ? > > if not then what is the meaning of sortOrder parameter in Restful > > Apecification and ActivityService->getActivities(). Is it me who is > not > > getting it right or there is some mismatch in API refernce and resful > > specification ? > > > > Please clarify. > > > > Astha > > > > > Astha > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "OpenSocial and Gadgets Specification Discussion" group. > To post to this group, send email to opensocial-and-gadgets- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-and-gadgets- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >
