Re: [SGapi] New SGAPI method: otherme - Brad Fitzpatrick - com.googlegroups.social-graph-api

9 messages in com.googlegroups.social-graph-apiRe: [SGapi] New SGAPI method: otherme

From	Sent On	Attachments
Brad Fitzpatrick	11 Jul 2008 16:04
Ade Oshineye	13 Jul 2008 09:24
Brad Fitzpatrick	13 Jul 2008 18:43
Brad Fitzpatrick	13 Jul 2008 18:46
Ade Oshineye	14 Jul 2008 09:45
Brad Fitzpatrick	14 Jul 2008 10:05
Dale Newfield	15 Jul 2008 13:38
Brad Fitzpatrick	15 Jul 2008 13:50
Brad Fitzpatrick	30 Jul 2008 11:39

Subject:	Re: [SGapi] New SGAPI method: otherme
From:	Brad Fitzpatrick (brad...@google.com)
Date:	07/15/2008 01:50:08 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.social-graph-api

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Dale Newfield <Da...@newfield.org> wrote:

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:

The "otherme" method takes a list of URLs already. I'm not sure why you'd need the code below.

The original service accepts multiple URLs and has the fme (follow "me" links) argument. I'm still unclear as to how this "otherme" query differs from "lookup".

As I said in my email, it's the same data, organized differently. It also de-dups stuff using ident_is and pk_is attributes (only visible in lookup's sgn=1 mode). That is, if fme=1 would both my sgn://myspace.com/?pk=123 and sgn://myspace.com/?ident=bradfitz nodes, and those were known to be identical, the otherme API combines those.

It's basically just an easier way to access the data when that's the exact question you want to see answered (Given some URLs, what are the other ones?) without walking the often-nasty data structure that is returned by lookup.

- Brad