Do the Google Friend Connect support opensocial.requestSendMessage() method

[baroon bikas]

Hi All..... I was wondering whether GFC supports opensocial's -
requestSendMessage() . If not when GFC is going to enable the same.
Since GFC says it follows OpenSocial v0.8 for Javascript API and I
don't see anything regarding same on the GFC help site...

[Bob Aman]

OpenSocial really only requires that the function exist. If you try
to call the function, Friend Connect gives you back a not implemented
error code as per the specification. This is the correct behavior for
implementations that don't support messaging through the API.

-Bob

[baroon bikas]

Thanks Bob for the information on the same. Well is GFC going to
implement this in near future, or this is not in there TODO list at
all.

[Bob Aman]

>> > Hi All..... I was wondering whether GFC supports opensocial's  -
>> > requestSendMessage() . If not when GFC is going to enable the same.
>> > Since GFC says it follows OpenSocial v0.8 for Javascript API and I
>> > don't see anything regarding same on the GFC help site...
>>
>> OpenSocial really only requires that the function exist.  If you try
>> to call the function, Friend Connect gives you back a not implemented
>> error code as per the specification.  This is the correct behavior for
>> implementations that don't support messaging through the API.
>

> Thanks Bob for the information on the same. Well is GFC going to
> implement this in near future, or this is not in there TODO list at
> all.

Short answer is that I don't know. We have a messaging system now,
but exposing it to the API would require quite a bit of
security-related work. We wouldn't want to expose it through the API
in such a way that spammers could use it to send messages to any GFC
ID or any member of the community. So for all intents and purposes,
there is no ETA on this feature.

-Bob