GAE-OpenSocial Question

[Timothy Fisher]

I have a question about what is possible with GAE-OpenSocial. Let me
describe what I would like to do.

I have a Rails application that I would like to add OpenSocial support
to. Currently there is not a Ruby port of Shindig, so I would look to
something like GAE-OpenSocial to add that support. My question is,
can I set up GAE-OpenSocial such that it is pulling the social data
(people, activities, profiles) from my application. So in other
words, I'd like to plug in to GAE-OpenSocial from both the top and the
bottom.

So as an example, if someone used one of the OpenSocial API's to
request users, I'd want that request to go to GAE-OpenSocial and
eventually come back to my app to grab the users from my database. I
have users exposed via a RESTful web service.

Tim

[Ram Sharma]

Hi Timothy,

You can use also PHP or Java Shindig. Just a few file you need to customize and it would work with your application. there are some good opensource examples to help you in that (http://code.google.com/p/esprit and http://code.google.com/p/zing)

If you want to use GAE-OpenSocial then it is also possible. Your container will have shindig URL pointing to GAE-OpenSocial and GAE-OpenSocial will be talking to your APIs to create/update data in your database. But for this your applications should provide all the APIs for which you need shindig to work like people, activities and application data.

In all the cases you need to customize few files either in GAE-opensocial or PHP or Java Shindig. These files are basically intended to interact with your database or APIs for persistent data.

--
Ram Sharma
Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt Ltd

[Fisher, Tim]

Ram,

 

Thank you for your response.  Yes I do understand that I could use the Java or PHP version also.  However, I like the GAE version because it is very easy to host at no cost on the GAE platform. 

 

Tim

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Subject: Re: GAE-OpenSocial Question

[Akash]

HI Tim,

You can use the GAE-Opensocial in the same way as PHP/Java shindig
versions.
We are working on Restful API and will be available by 30th Oct, 2009.

Aakash