[OpenSocial] Re: Error Submitting a New Application (Please Help) - justin kruger - com.googlegroups.opensocial-api

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From	Sent On	Attachments
Anuj	20 May 2008 09:56
Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)	20 May 2008 10:11
justin kruger	20 May 2008 10:32
Aakash Bapna	20 May 2008 10:38
justin kruger	20 May 2008 10:42
Arne Roomann-Kurrik	20 May 2008 10:55
Anuj	20 May 2008 14:51
justin kruger	20 May 2008 15:16
Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)	02 Jun 2008 10:44

Subject:	[OpenSocial] Re: Error Submitting a New Application (Please Help)
From:	justin kruger (just...@gmail.com)
Date:	05/20/2008 03:16:00 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.opensocial-api

YES, i will add a flash example ASAP if you do.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <api....@google.com> wrote:

This is great advice. I've been an advocate for a wiki interface like hi5 and facebook. Ideally this would reside on opensocial.org, so we've been holding off for the time being while the OpenSocial foundation gets up and running.

A quick solution would be to open up the opensocial-resources wiki for public editing. Thoughts?

~Arne

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:43 AM, justin kruger <just...@gmail.com> wrote:

yeah, hi5 has their game face on. ;-p

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Aakash Bapna <aak...@live.com> wrote:

Even i agree the documentations is not well linked its all scattered across gadgets, orkut, opensocial, opensocial-resource etc.. A wiki can solve the problem.. like the Hi5 went for wiki.

Thanks

~@@k@sh http://aakash-bapna.blogspot.com

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 12:32:34 -0500 From: just...@gmail.com To: open...@googlegroups.com Subject: [OpenSocial] Re: Error Submitting a New Application (Please Help)

Arne, the documentation is a good start, but can you just let it go wiki?

As we find things out, we can update the docs. For example:

*articles are not well linked in to from the api calls that are discussed in said articles. I know i have had to point people to the articles a few times.

*http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/reference/opensocial.DataRequest.html#newFetchPersonRequest it claims you get a person object back, and links to it, but you have no idea how to take that until you realize that you need to read the callback. for a first time user, this is confusing.

*there needs to be more examples, the jQuery docs do a great job of this, and the wiki even allows you to store script.

*many containers are either out of date with 0.7 like ning, or they do not implement the spec fully. for example: many containers do not implement

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.7/reference/gadgets.Prefs.html which is a gadget core object. i have had to replace that functionality with custom code to fetch "onload" user settings that are required to draw the app. it would really be great as we solve problems and create work around, to again have one place to post to, instead of an email list, that even though is indexed, it is not unpalatable as things change for each network.

*we should be able to verify functionality of each function for each network and see which networks support it if its a new function, and if it is an old function, which ones don't. kinda a praise and promotion for the leaders, and some encouragement for those social networks that are lagging.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google) <api....@google.com> wrote:

Hi Anuj,

I'm sorry to hear that you don't find the OpenSocial documentation unfriendly to developers. Can you list the resources you used and what parts you found unfriendly? We try to improve our documentation over time and your feedback would be valuable.

With regard to your application submission, this form is only for discussing the OpenSocial APIs in general, not specific containers. If you have orkut questions, please check out http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut

Thanks, ~Arne

On May 20, 9:56 am, Anuj <anuj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yesterday night i was finally going to launch my first orkut application after weeks toiling over not so developer-friendly opensocial documentation and i was disappointed get another error while submitting my application.

On "Submit Your Application" pagehttp://sandbox.orkut.com/AppDirectorySubmit.aspx i get the following error while submitting my orkut application

_______________________________________________ There was a problem submitting your application.

* Gadget already in directory at URL "http://www...................xml"

_______________________________________________

Just wondering if orkut is not accepting any new application or something else is wrong.

Please help me!!!

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