I have a specific application in mind for using waves in a workflow. For the purposes of this discussion a workflow is one or more applications which shepard the user(s) through a process or processes. What I would like to do is either create the wave, and then pass an "identifier" (i.e. URL) for the wave to the first workflow application. Each subsequent workflow application would pass the wave- id to the next and so forth. In some cases the first workflow application might actually create the wave.
The basic idea is that each workflow application would append information to the wave related to its processing of the workflow: status, logs, artifacts, etc, and the workflow applications would really just be participants in that wave. In the end the wave is a record of what actually happened during the processing of that workflow, along with all the human interactions with the workflow- wave. I have not written a robot yet but I get the gist of how they work. Your robot only gets called when there is some event about the wave it needs to process. What I cannot see is how a robot can spontaneously update the wave with out setting up cron process to get cron events. If i want quick responses from my robot then I have to set the cron to poke the robot every minute (or more), and I don't see this as a good solution. What would be really nice is if there is some way some external agent could manipulate the wave given the wave-id. At a minimum this would be a "poke" request, that would cause the wave to send a poke-event to it's robots so they could take action on behalf of the external agent. Ideally the poke request would take some parameters to be passed on to the poke event received by the robot(s). You could then have quick spontaneous updates to the wave from external source, without having a cron send events every minute or so. Is there a way to do what I want now, or are there plans to add an API for this in the future? Cheers, Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
