Hey Terry, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, terry <terry.ole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks chris thats a fair few things for me to start with. I've read > aboutthere being some stubs of code that I need to fill in inorder for > people to access information stored on my database, Ah when you wrote 'I have shindig installed' I assumed you had already done that., my bad :) > do you have any > information on where these stubs are? and the types of functionality i > should be providing in them for developers. The how and what depends a bit on if you're using the java or php variant of shindig (btw, you should be posting on the shindig-...@incubator.apache.orgmailing list, that's where all the people who can give shindig support hang out, see http://incubator.apache.org/shindig for details on how to subscribe). If you're using PHP Shindig (or even if you're using java it's still a nice example) the easiest way to see what's involved & what needs to be implemented is by checking out Partuza, http://code.google.com/p/partuza and a live version at www.partuza.nl Basically you need to implement the People, Activities and AppData interfaces (for php shindig see shindig/php/src/social/spi/{People,Activity,AppData}Service.php and partuza/Shindig/PartuzaService.php & PartuzaDbFetcher.php for a 'real' example on how to implement those). There are also interfaces for OAuth, Albums, Invalidation and Messages, but for a first deployment you should consider those to be optional.. the people, activities and appdata are the core services that gadgets use. After that you also need to implement an user preferences UI, support different views (profile and canvas are the two must-haves, and home and preview are 'optional', ie only if that makes sense on your site). Then you need to generate iframe's that contain the nav-params, user prefs, an encrypted security token, lang, country, etc.. That iframe business is a bit tricky, but again Partuza has a nice example of how to do that which you can trace starting from partuza/Application/Views/gadget/gadget.php Hopefully that'll help you get started, and if (read: when :) you run into any issues, please feel free to ping us (but preferably on the shindig-dev list) -- Chris
