01-16-2008 Orkut Sandbox moving to 0.6 TODAY

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Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)

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Jan 16, 2008, 4:50:05 PM1/16/08
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As originally announced in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/63db53fd7c65089b
the Orkut sandbox is going to be updated with the 0.6 API today.

Please respond to this thread with any discussion or problems related
to this push.

Thanks!
~Arne

Prince

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Jan 16, 2008, 11:55:53 PM1/16/08
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Hai Arne

Why my version 0.5 applications are not working

how can i update my previous appluication
Raju

On Jan 17, 2:50 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
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> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Rajat

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Jan 17, 2008, 2:41:00 AM1/17/08
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Hi,

Is this push done? I can;t seem to add my application with either
<Require feature="opensocial-0.6"/> or <Require
feature="opensocial-0.5"/>
It just goes to no donut page.
My earlier added app which was running on 0.5 gives me 404 in canvas
mode.
Can someone please check and let me know.

Regards,
Rajat
www.toostep.com


On Jan 17, 2:50 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

vorun

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Jan 17, 2008, 2:49:25 AM1/17/08
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Is OpenSocial going anywhere? all i have seen is Orkut!




On Jan 16, 1:50 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
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> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

prince

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Jan 17, 2008, 4:11:09 AM1/17/08
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Hai is there any change

please help em arne

i want that immediately

Prince

On Jan 17, 2:50 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Rajat

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Jan 17, 2008, 9:28:50 AM1/17/08
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I think I have found the problem that is causing my widget to fail...

following seems to be offending code and it is causing my JSON string
to give error...

txt = txt.substr(UNPARSEABLE_CRUFT.length);
// TODO: safe JSON parser.
var data = eval("(" + txt + ")");

Can this be corrected???

Rajat

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Jan 17, 2008, 9:30:51 AM1/17/08
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Also adding <Require feature="analytics"/> is causing no donut for you
page that I was getting earlier. Is analytics no longer supported in
OS?

Dustin...@gmail.com

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Jan 17, 2008, 12:05:19 PM1/17/08
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The 404 Errors being experienced on Orkut right now (9:00am PST,
01/17) seem to be caused by apps requiring some of the iGoogle
features. In our case it was/is specifically the Tabs library (eg
<Require feature="tabs" />). Removing this line item cleans up the 404
error. Of course then we don't have tabs available without remotely
including the library.

So this begs the question: Are we going to be without?

The other thing we noticed is that this push seems to clear up the IE
errors (at least on a test box running IE6 and IE7), which is very
nice to see.

-Dustin / www.iWiddit.com

Marc Wessely

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Jan 17, 2008, 1:39:26 PM1/17/08
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Hello Dustin,

Ok cool to get the problem, but my app urgently need tabs , so how todo about thaT?

how can i include the tab library remotely? whats the url?

And why is it giving that error using tabs library? problem of gadget server interpreting that?

is it orkut specific problem or generally gadget related? Has it something todo with opensocial 0.6 version?

greetz marc.

Vanessa

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Jan 17, 2008, 1:54:58 PM1/17/08
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Hey Arne,

I now that the activities API changed in this new version and the
Stream object no longer exists. This probably changes how we get
Orkut's query string parameters (like appId), right?

Here is a sample of the code we use in version 0.5:
var stream = data.get('activities').getData()
['requestedStream'] ;
if(stream)
this.applicationId = stream.getField(opensocial.Stream.Field.APP_ID);


How do we get this to work on version 0.6?

Thanks in advance,
Vanessa.
On Jan 16, 7:50 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Vanessa

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Jan 17, 2008, 1:56:27 PM1/17/08
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Is there a list of changes that affect 0.5 code and how to migrate to
0.6?

On Jan 16, 7:50 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Dustin Jorge

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Jan 17, 2008, 1:59:34 PM1/17/08
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It started w/ the 0.6 push as far as I can tell, and I'm pretty sure
it's Orkut only.

I had just planned on waiting it out for a bit. That's a pretty ugly
error to leave untouched, so I'm assuming they're working on it.

We noticed other includes were causing errors too: miniMessages,
setTitle etc.


Marc Wessely wrote:
> Hello Dustin,
>
> Ok cool to get the problem, but my app urgently need tabs , so how
> todo about thaT?
>
> how can i include the tab library remotely? whats the url?
>
> And why is it giving that error using tabs library? problem of gadget
> server interpreting that?
>
> is it orkut specific problem or generally gadget related? Has it
> something todo with opensocial 0.6 version?
>
> greetz marc.
>

> 2008/1/17, Dustin...@gmail.com <mailto:Dustin...@gmail.com>
> <Dustin...@gmail.com <mailto:Dustin...@gmail.com>>:


>
>
> The 404 Errors being experienced on Orkut right now (9:00am PST,
> 01/17) seem to be caused by apps requiring some of the iGoogle
> features. In our case it was/is specifically the Tabs library (eg
> <Require feature="tabs" />). Removing this line item cleans up the
> 404
> error. Of course then we don't have tabs available without remotely
> including the library.
>
> So this begs the question: Are we going to be without?
>
> The other thing we noticed is that this push seems to clear up the IE
> errors (at least on a test box running IE6 and IE7), which is very
> nice to see.
>

> -Dustin / www.iWiddit.com <http://www.iWiddit.com>


>
> On Jan 17, 6:30 am, Rajat < rajatmalho...@gmail.com

> <mailto:rajatmalho...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Also adding <Require feature="analytics"/> is causing no donut
> for you
> > page that I was getting earlier. Is analytics no longer supported in
> > OS?
> >
> > On Jan 17, 7:28 pm, Rajat <rajatmalho...@gmail.com

> <mailto:rajatmalho...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > I think I have found the problem that is causing my widget to
> fail...
> >
> > > following seems to be offending code and it is causing my JSON
> string
> > > to give error...
> >
> > > txt = txt.substr(UNPARSEABLE_CRUFT.length);
> > > // TODO: safe JSON parser.
> > > var data = eval("(" + txt + ")");
> >
> > > Can this be corrected???
> >
> > > On Jan 17, 12:41 pm, Rajat <rajatmalho...@gmail.com

> <mailto:rajatmalho...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > Is this push done? I can;t seem to add my application with
> either
> > > > <Require feature="opensocial-0.6"/> or <Require
> > > > feature="opensocial-0.5"/>
> > > > It just goes to no donut page.
> > > > My earlier added app which was running on 0.5 gives me 404
> in canvas
> > > > mode.
> > > > Can someone please check and let me know.
> >
> > > > Regards,

> > > > Rajatwww.toostep.com <http://Rajatwww.toostep.com>


> >
> > > > On Jan 17, 2:50 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
> >

TylerKeen

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Jan 17, 2008, 2:04:40 PM1/17/08
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Google needs a QA department. I am suppose to show a open social 0.5
app I made a few weeks ago and now I cant unless they can fix the
FetchContent error they introduced that Rajat pointed out.

JevS

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Jan 18, 2008, 1:27:50 AM1/18/08
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After removing Require analytics and opensocialalexa, I am back with
my application http://www.openopensocial.com/apps/welcomeorkut10.xml
, except it not recognizes canvas mode anymore and user preferences
are not shown (which were implemented wrong anyway). But it is working
with IE now!
Cheers
Jevs

Renato Mangini

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Jan 18, 2008, 6:49:01 AM1/18/08
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On 1/18/08, JevS <jevgen...@gmail.com> wrote:
, except it not recognizes canvas mode anymore and user preferences
are not shown (which were implemented wrong anyway). But it is working

Jevs, the _args() parameter that contains the current surface mode is now "surface", instead of "mode" as it was before.
So, the code should be something like this:

var surf = _args()["surface"];
if (surf == 'profile') {
  getDataForProfile();
} else {
  getDataForCanvas();
}

Hope it helps.

Renato Mangini.

jude

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Jan 20, 2008, 3:08:24 AM1/20/08
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Hi,
With 0.6 version of opensocial Api

_IF_FetchContent does not seem to work , many people are facing the
same problem .

It was working fine with version 0.5 . Can any one from google please
look into this .

Cheers,
Jude

On Jan 17, 2:50 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Dinesh Kumar Subramanian

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Jan 20, 2008, 12:39:02 PM1/20/08
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Hi,

Its really frustrating to see the "Bad, bad server. No brownie points for you."

Nothing works I keep getting the same error message i cant even open
any pages with sandbox.orkut.com url.

So please if someone let me know how to get rid of it.

I know its something to with 0.6 push


Thanks
Dinesh

On Jan 16, 2008 3:50 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)

Jerome

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Jan 21, 2008, 12:11:55 AM1/21/08
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Hi Arne,

As other pointing out here, this update broke the iGoogle API features
included by <Require feature=""/>. No matter of the gadget uses OS 0.5
or 0.6, you get the dreadful 404 in the rendered area if you try to
include features like tabs, minimessages, analytics or setprefs.

At the same time, the little tool icon on the bottom left of the
gadget on Orkut has vanished as well, so it sounds like this is not
only the setprefs feature, but the user prefs management all together
that is gone. Is this just due to an issue with the update, or have
you deprecated all these features?

Jerome

On Jan 16, 3:50 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:
> As originally announced in this thread:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...

Rajat

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Jan 21, 2008, 5:36:10 AM1/21/08
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This is still a problem... I have changed my widget to use
opensocial.makeRequest even then I see that the JSON object that I
return is causing javascript error at the container as I have
mentioned earlier... Also after changing my code to use
opensocial.makeRequest instead of _IG_FetchContent it is now caching
the request and no matter even if I use bpc=1 it is still using the
cache.

Is anyone else facing such problems or is it me doing something
stupid? Has anyone found any alternative to get JSON strings to be
sent to the widget code?

Regards,
Rajat
www.toostep.com

Rajat

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Jan 22, 2008, 4:33:28 AM1/22/08
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I give up...

even if I try to send 27 chars before my actual data which clears up
the previous errors it still is expecting data in a very specific
format which is no where documented in the specs. From the following
code it seems that it is expecting json in the format of
{original_url: {body: 'actual data'} }
which seems insane. Before going to make changes to my app I would
request someone from google to confirm whether this is a bug which
will be corrected or is it the way we will have to implement our
apps ???

And for a change it would be nice to get a official response to this.

586 var data = eval("(" + txt + ")");
587 data = data[url];
588 var resp = {
589 text: data.body,
590 errors: []
591 };

Regards,
Rajat
www.toostep.com

Dinesh Kumar Subramanian

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Jan 22, 2008, 11:06:12 AM1/22/08
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Arne,

Please reply to this. I cant even oprn my orkut sandbox. it always
gives me bad server error. this is the fourth mail i am sending on
this regard but never got a reply from anyone from google.

So please let us know whats going on. If there is anything that we
could help it set it up. we are very much willing to do the same.


Thanks
Dinesh

On Jan 16, 2008 3:50 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)
<api.k...@google.com> wrote:
>

TylerKeen

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Jan 22, 2008, 3:58:02 PM1/22/08
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Hello?....... Google? Feel free to jump in here anytime.

Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)

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Jan 24, 2008, 1:43:26 PM1/24/08
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Hey, sorry about the delay in responding to this thread! This push
was the initial migration to have Orkut running on the Shindig project
and there were a few issues introduced that were not expected. The
team has been quite busy locking these down and it looks like things
have stabilized a bit.

RE: makeRequest() padding - The sandbox has been pushed again with
fixes to the makeRequest() function calls that don't require you to
pad return data. Currently, there's a known issue when requesting
FEED type content, but if your server is returning JSON, then you
should be able to get data back to your applications now.

RE: Sandbox 404s and donut errors - The recent push should have
addressed some of these issues, except for a known bug with type=url
gadgets. If you are getting consistent 404s/no donut errors (not
related to type=url gadgets), please post here again.

RE: Changes from 0.5 to 0.6 - We've updated the Orkut Developer's
Guide to show you how things have changed. Please check
http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/orkutdevguide.html for this
information. Post new threads about any code that you can't get
working under the new API and we'll try to help you out!

~Arne

Marc Wessely

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Jan 24, 2008, 2:10:27 PM1/24/08
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Hello Arne,

I am still getting 404 error, when i have added setprefs and tabs library but i need that for design of the gadget.
I moved now to hi5 container but would prefer continuing development on orkut since hi5 is missing some features i need.

i think also others realized that all gadget api libraries dont work at the moment.

marc.

2008/1/24, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) < api.k...@google.com>:

Dinesh Kumar Subramanian

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Jan 24, 2008, 3:28:43 PM1/24/08
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hi,
Now its different i am getting 502 errors

not even able to open sandbox url .
please help
Thanks
Dinesh

Jerome

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Jan 24, 2008, 3:36:44 PM1/24/08
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Arne,

I am still getting consistent 404. See this post for more details:
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/b6e63d0e7c2dea6e#

Let us know from the current iGoogle API features which one are
temporarily broken by the move to Shindig and which one are taken out
from Orkut permanently. Especially, what will happen with the User
Prefs management? The tool icon is gone from the bottom left corner of
the gadget area.

Thanks,

Jerome

On Jan 24, 12:43 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
> Guide to show you how things have changed. Please checkhttp://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/orkutdevguide.htmlfor this

Reinoud Elhorst

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Jan 28, 2008, 2:57:01 PM1/28/08
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http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/spec.html#corejavascriptapi notes user preferences as a requirement, so I would expect that to be available in Orkut shortly (or perhaps already is, under the new name of gadgets.Prefs)

Marc Wessely

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Jan 28, 2008, 3:22:20 PM1/28/08
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ok thanks will try

2008/1/28, Reinoud Elhorst <goo...@claude.nl>:

Sav

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Jan 30, 2008, 6:31:31 PM1/30/08
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Yeah, the sandbox URLs no longer work for me...
http://sandbox.orkut.com/

That makes it a little hard to develop ;)


On Jan 24, 12:28 pm, "Dinesh Kumar Subramanian"
<dineshkuma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Now its different i am getting 502 errors
>
> not even able to opensandboxurl .
> please help
> Thanks
> Dinesh
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 1:10 PM, Marc Wessely <wessely.m...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Arne,
>
> > I am still getting 404 error, when i have added setprefs and tabs library
> > but i need that for design of the gadget.
> > I moved now to hi5 container but would prefer continuing development on
> > orkut since hi5 is missing some features i need.
>
> > i think also others realized that all gadget api libraries dont work at the
> > moment.
>
> > marc.
>
> > 2008/1/24, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) < api.kur...@google.com>:
>
> > > Hey, sorry about the delay in responding to this thread! This push
> > > was the initial migration to have Orkut running on the Shindig project
> > > and there were a few issues introduced that were not expected. The
> > > team has been quite busy locking these down and it looks like things
> > > have stabilized a bit.
>
> > > RE: makeRequest() padding - Thesandboxhas been pushed again with
> > > fixes to the makeRequest() function calls that don't require you to
> > > pad return data. Currently, there's a known issue when requesting
> > > FEED type content, but if your server is returning JSON, then you
> > > should be able to get data back to your applications now.
>
> > > RE:Sandbox404s and donut errors - The recent push should have
> > > addressed some of these issues, except for a known bug with type=url
> > > gadgets. If you are getting consistent 404s/no donut errors (not
> > > related to type=url gadgets), please post here again.
>
> > > RE: Changes from 0.5 to 0.6 - We've updated the Orkut Developer's
> > > Guide to show you how things have changed. Please check
> > >http://code.google.com/apis/orkut/docs/orkutdevguide.htmlfor this
> > > > > > > > > > the Orkutsandboxis going to be updated with the 0.6 API
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