Oh, this happens because OWNER has not been implemented (yet??) in the google OpenSocial APIs. It's documented actually, if you look at the docs.
So it's a known issue. Now, if we can READ the owner's variables, it should be logical that we should be able to also WRITE them. Except, of course, for the javascript security part, which is the undoing of a lot of the features for now. I was working on a profile counter yesterday, and came across this same problem. Updating the OWNER's variables is unsupported by Orkut. It actually returns an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR (see the response in firebug). Anyway, these internal server errors suck because they can also happen sporadically/spontaneously for now. And they don't give you any error info for getError(), which throws an error itself because the js lib is not expecting an internal server error. That said, I looked around the API and chose to use the InstanceData methods. Turns out, thankfully, an INSTANCE of a gadget is a persistent instance that stays on the owner's profile. Well, that's really all I need, anyway. Here is my counter. It even tracks who has been to your page (stalk your stalkers). I think it would be a cool feature and I'd even submit it to google for people to use. But it's a bit insecure (people can hack in and set any number over there). Hopefully not a lot else can be done, though. It runs completely without a backend server. CHECK IT OUT ON MY PAGE if you want: http://sandbox.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=6174874846961425460&bpc=1 Greg Magarshak On Nov 3, 5:14 pm, Mokele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this a known issue? > > var req = opensocial.newDataRequest(); > req.add(req.newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest("OWNER", "mykey", myvalue)); > req.send(mycallback); > > I can see in the test applications that the persistent data store > should be working, but using an equivalent of the example above I'm > not getting the desired results. Known issue, or am I missing > something? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
