RESTful support for Activities and more

[Pierre Henri Kuate]

Hi,

The OpenSocial Java Client has recently added support for querying
activities.

I would like to know if it is supported by Orkut (in the sandbox) and
if not, do you have an ETA for when it will be?

Same question for more recent APIs like Albums and MediaItems.

By the way, I did try and it failed with the response:
[{"id":"activities","error":{"message":"notImplemented: The service
activity is not implemented","code":501}}]

Thanks.

[Vijaya]

Currently orkut does not support activities using REST, but we'll keep
you informed when we do.
On the other hand Albums and MediaItems are supported on orkut.

[Pierre Henri Kuate]

I confirm that accessing Albums work :)
I had some issues with my client-library... More here:
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-client-libraries/browse_thread/thread/933d4f255b2786d3/bc52359545bb19ac

I noticed that, if friend1 and friend2 both have installed the gadget
and given access to albums, it is not possible for friend1 to request
the albums of friend2 (I get a notAuthorized error).
This should certainly be possible! And it would be nice if friend1
could access friend2's albums even if friend2 hasn't installed the
gadget.
The idea is that, since you can browse your friends' albums using
Orkut, you should be able to do the same via a gadget. As example, the
Facebook API allows that.

I also noticed that, when installing a gadget, the checkbox "Allow
access to photos" is not checked by default. I hope that it will be
checked by default when the feature goes to production. Reason: Most
people just click "Next"/"Ok" without reading and even if they do many
will not know if it should be checked or not. The result will be that
the app will not work, and even if the app shows a message requesting
that feature, it will be too late; most people will just uninstall the
app.

What do you think?