Thanks very much for these explanation, but yes it would be good if
Google can soon explain better (and improve) this makeRequest
function :)
Victor
htpp://www.osocial.net
On Jan 20, 7:20 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> So before I start... I'll say that most of this DID NOT all come from
> the spec.. but from trial and error and firebug. So don't blame me if
> these methods break when they fix all the Orkut errors.
>
> Eugene: With reference to 'Maps', at this point it looks like the code
> is expecting { contentType:"json" } or similar (see the orkut 0.6
> iframe source code line 592). If you dig into the code there is only
> mention of contentType "json" or contentType "dom" or default... which
> is 'as is'. The identifier is 'contentType', in the current code at
> least.
>
> I was finally able to get some simple text data through... but not
> without jumping through a bunch of hoops:
>
> First notice on the source line 584 that the text coming back from
> your server is trimmed, so any string that comes from your server must
> be prefixed with "throw 1; < don't be evil' >" (or 27 characters) that
> will be auto-trimmed. ("throw 1; < don't be evil' >" is the string
> that they use to trim the text... see lines 565 & 584 of the source.
> The note in the source code implies that this won't be an issue for
> long.)
>
> Next thing is that their code expects your server to output a JSON
> object. Not only that, but the object should contain a property named
> with the url of the requested file (unescaped) containing a property
> named 'body' that contains the textual data. (who knew?)
>
> Here's what the output string i tested with looks like (in php):
>
> echo "throw 1; < don't be evil' >{ 'http://www.iwiddit.com/test.php':
> { 'body' : 'this is a test' } }";
>
> Here's what the request (app code) looked like:
>
> var url = 'http://www.iwiddit.com/test.php';
> var params = { contentType:"html" }; // this will call
> default in the switch statement (redundant)
> opensocial.makeRequest( url, retDat, params );
>
> function retDat( dat ){
> document.body.innerHTML += dat;
> }
>
> The result was as expected... on orkut (yes it works).
>
> The file I used for testing is atwww.iwiddit.com/testing/make_request.xml
> The output from my server can be seen
> atwww.iwiddit.com/testing/make_request.php
> The contents of the php file can be seen
> herewww.iwiddit.com/testing/make_request.txt
>
> *** Obviously if you decide to implement with these methods (I
> wouldn't until you hear it from Google, otherwise it'll probably break
> soon.), you'll have to make sure the url in the returned data matches
> yours... if you look at the source of the current 0.6 iframe (lines
> 565 - 616) you'll understand why...
>
> Hope all that helps some,
>
> -Dustin /www.iWiddit.com
>
> On Jan 16, 11:07 pm, ejpark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So I'm calling:
> > opensocial.makeRequest(MY_URL, MY_CALL_BACK);
>
> > The request successfully reaches my server, but upon return, the
> > container tries to parse my response as javascript. How do I set this
> > to html?
>
> > The spec says that 'opensocial.makeRequest' accepts a third parameter
> > to set ContentType, AuthenticationType, etc. Any examples on how to
> > setup this third parameter?
>
> > Eugene
> > Flixster, Inc.
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