[PWA API] Re: Orkut and Picasa - Akash - com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

3 messages in com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api[PWA API] Re: Orkut and Picasa

From	Sent On	Attachments
Akash	06 Jul 2008 10:02
Jeff Fisher (Google)	07 Jul 2008 13:08
Akash	13 Jul 2008 22:40

Subject:	[PWA API] Re: Orkut and Picasa
From:	Akash (akas...@gmail.com)
Date:	07/13/2008 10:40:58 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

Thanks Jeff for quick response. I have decided to use Google App engine.

On Jul 8, 1:09 am, "Jeff Fisher (Google)" <api....@google.com> wrote:

Hi Akash,

Unfortunately there is no nice way to log in to the user's Picasa Web Albums account by re-using the fact they are logged into Orkut. You still would have to use AuthSub or OAuth to have the user authorize access to your code:

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthSub.html

There is not a JavaScript client library available at this time for PWA, partially because doing image uploads through JavaScript is difficult, it might be better if the PWA API was more like the YouTube API and allowed for doing HTML form posts to upload.

Is this for an OpenSocial gadget? Have you considered using Google App Engine for the backend?

http://code.google.com/appengine/

Cheers, -Jeff

On Jul 6, 10:02 am, Akash <akas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am writing an application where user uploads images from an orkut application to her picasa album. In this problem space I have two questions.

Authentication:- When the user is in orkut application she is already authenticated by her google id. Now the question is that how the authentication should be handled to enable user to upload images own picasa album.

Image Upload:- Any pointers on how to upload images from the orkut application? I am wondering whether any javascript api are available to enable this?