Disabling cache in the Orkut sandbox

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)]

Orkut's sandbox caches your gadget to improve latency. This is
undesirable during development, so to bypass caching on a given Orkut
page, please append &bpc=1 to the URL of the page itself:

For example:

Cached:
http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?uid=x&appId=x

Not cached:
http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?uid=x&appId=x&bpc=1

Please note that you do not append bpc=1 to the url of the gadget you
install.

~Arne

[Abhinav]

Hi,
I keep getting "Information is temporarily unavailable" when i append
&bpc=1 to the url and click enter. I am using Firefox. Can someone
please help me out?

Abhinav

On Nov 21, 1:54 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"

[Gavi]

just started playing with the API. This is the exact information i was
looking for.

thanks


On Nov 21, 4:54 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"

[imro...@gmail.com]

I guess it will work,,,,,adding &bps=1 sure does enable the bypass
option.
Haven't tried my hand at it as yet.....

[runwolf]

That work for me !!!

[Barry Welch]

Yeah, but, when we deploy to production and the Spec XML is cached...
how long does this caching last, and will it expire? Can I manually
expire the cache for this? Because, lets say my app gets 500 users and
I find a bug or want to add a new feature and so I change the code.
How do I make sure that all my users are getting served latest app
spec?

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)]

Hi Barry,

The way the sandbox currently works is that the same cached
version is served to all users who are not specifying &bpc=1 in their
querystring. This is why you can put &bpc=1 on a URL, view the
updated version, and then remove &bpc=1 to see the older version
again. Currently, this cache expires after about an hour, so if you
make a change to your application spec, then your users should all be
viewing the updated spec after about an hour.

If expiring the cache is still something you would like to have,
then please add it to the feature requests page:
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial/web/opensocial-feature-requests

Hope this helps,
~Arne

[Barry Welch]

Arne, I think it makes sense to have this, so I will put in the
request.

FYI

My Use Case:
If I update my backend server to change an API call for my client js
app, for example, its possibly going hose the cached instances. At
deploy time, I want to make sure that the client spec and the server
are in sync. Of course, this is only an issue if I actually have
active users ;).

[wisdomaccess]

Arne

What is appId ?
I used uid for appId, but don't work.
Thank you for your help

Christina

On Nov 21, 4:54 pm, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)"
<api.kur...@google.com> wrote:

[jeet.simran]

Hi Arne

I had installed my app from last month but every time when i click my
app from the left bar ..it will open always the page that i had on
first day..every time i have to add the bpc=1 in the url to run the
app..is the cache of the app not cleared after an hour
automatically ..if yes than why my app installed from so long time
doesn't appeared with changes yet.. is i always have to add bpc=1..in
url..or is there any alternatively permanent..so i can show my app to
someone ..and it will run properly.

Thanks
Simran

[Lane LiaBraaten]

Hi Simran,

Can you please post a link to a profile page with the app on it so I
can take a closer look?

Thanks,
Lane

[jeet.simran]

Hi Lane

Here is my profile link please have a look on my profile and let me
know the issue the app is family list

http://sandbox.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=9909705199539874010

Thanks for Reply
Simran

[Ilya Nikolayev]

Lane,

Can you respond to Simran's post below?

-Ilya

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)]

Hi Jeet,

I've taken a look and I'll be filing a bug to get this issue
resolved. It appears that when I load
http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?appId=946071177235&uid=9909705199539874010,
I get nothing in the tabs (an earlier version of your gadget?), but
when I load http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?appId=946071177235&uid=9909705199539874010&bpc=1,
then the application works (I get a family tree view, etc). Can you
give me an approximate time between these two versions (in terms of
hours/days/weeks)?

Thanks,
~Arne

[simran singh]

Hi Arne

  Thanks for checking my app,I not really give the exact estimate, but It is almost more than a month.I had added this app when sandbox is launched for public.You will estimate the second week when the sandbox is public.

Thanks
Jeet