On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks Adam for answering my question on the spec list. So here is my
> question: The various model objects say in their header:
>
>  * Base interface for all address objects
>  * see
> http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/reference/opensocial.Address.Field.html
> .
>
> and
>
>  * Base interface for all name objects.
>  * see
> http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/reference/opensocial.Name.Field.html
>
>
> So do they track the Javascript side of the spec? Because if they do,
> then there should be a translator somewhere between the REST/RPC code
> (which, according to Adam) uses a different field name. But, again
> according to Adam, it is the other way around. The Javascript field
> name gets translated to the REST/RPC names. IAW: It seems that
> FORMATTED would be correct, not UNSTRUCTURED. At least for 0.8.1.
>
> As SHINDIG-764 was applied, I guess, we are really shooting for 0.8,
> not 0.8.1 with the first release.


No, it's 0.8.1.  The JS did not change from 0.8 to 0.8.1 (because of the
lack of a versioning strategy for JS, I'm told), the wire formats did (to
align with Portable Contacts).happened

Why am I nagging on this: Our implementation has a pretty anemic
> profile model ATM and UNSTRUCTURED is one of the fiew fields that we
> support. Changing its name means that our backend people need to
> modify their code.


The proper name - for the bean and for the JSON - is "formatted".  SVN
revision 723617 needs to be rolled back.  SHINDIG-764 should have been
closed as not-a-bug.

-- Adam


>
>    Ciao
>        Henning
>
>
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