I am having difficulty getting a <content type=url> gadget to render properly in the Java distribution. The problem that is occurring is that the UserPrefs stored in the gadget xml are not being passed to the rendering url in anyway. Because of this the rendering url just uses default values it has for everything.
My current test gadget is a google gadget stock chart ( http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113570023379904426818/StockCharts.xml ). When using gmodules server through http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113570023379904426818/StockCharts.xml the userPrefs inside the XML get passed along to the rendering url. On my local setup of the java Shindig, none of the variables get passed along to the rendering url. I also modified that same stock chart gadget( http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/325531/IBM/stocks.xml) and changed its default user prefs to see if any changes were happening. gModules passes these values along, while my Java installation does not. I know gmodules does this properly, and i have spent a lot of time searching around without any luck. If anybody can point me to some resources about this problem or anything similar let me know. I also spent some time trying to find bug requests about this feature, or anything that states that this feature would not be supported. If i understood the opensocial .9 spec properly Section *3.1.3.6.c* describes that user prefs should be passed to the rendering page. If not please correct my understanding of the spec. Currently i have the beta3 trunk running and debugging through eclipse on my local machine. I have stepped through some breakpoints and code. The href object that is being passed to the redirection code does not contain any values in the 'query' parameter and i was unable to see where the code tried to pass userPrefs or other variables to the rendering site. Thank you. -Razvan
