Hey Tommy, Indeed, OpenSocial does cache a lot and this is for a good reason; If an OpenSocial gadget becomes popular, let alone on several networks, it can get hundreds of requests per second, and most dev's servers are not made to survive this kind of traffic; So caching doesn't only make the end-user experience faster, it also makes sure your servers can survive :)
However for development it can be a pain as you found out, if your developing in orkut the simplest way to by pass any cache's is to append ?nocache=1 to the URL. If you combine that with disabling your browser cache through firefox, you should have a completely cache-less environment. ps if your comming from a java env, you might want to check out the OSDE (OpenSocial Development Env): http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/ which allows you to do gadget development in Eclipse. I haven't tried it personally, but I hear lots of good things about it. -- Chris On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, developer.sawub...@googlemail.com < developer.sawub...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hey there, I'm developing a social app for a charity project and the > whole caching mechanism of the gadgets just drives me nuts. > > Recently I added my application to igoogle with the developer tools, > so I can uncheck the caching function for this gadget. Next i disabled > the cache of my Firefox with the web tools and deleted the contents of > it. But if I now change, say a few lines, in an external js File of my > gadget it's simply ignored. > > I already tried to set up a local shindig server, but I run in trouble > with the whole social data providing. > > > So my question is: How do you develop social apps, how is your process > looking. I'm coming from the standard java development branch and am > used to debuggers, test driven development etc. > > Is social app development, besides a firebug debugger, still trial and > error? And how do you make sure to disable the WHOLE cache in the > development state? > > Thanks very much for every hint, I'm really about to get crazy, > because everything I do seems to be cached.. > Tommy > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
