Hi Anthony and Jelena, If the viewer is a friend of the profile owner, the viewer object should be available even if the viewer doesn't have the app, right?
I think the security constraint shows up when we have a viewer which is foreign to the app or the profile owner. Does this sound correct to you (I have been pulling some of my hair over stuff like that a few weeks ago)? Jerome On Mar 6, 2:23 pm, Jelena Kolokotronis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I think you can't get viewer object unless he has the app > installed. Security constraints. > > Jelena > > > > johnson.psgtech wrote: > > Hi, > > > I found this wierd behaviour today. > > > I wrote one application X which will greet > > visitors by their name whenever they start using it > > on my profile. I thought it would greet..but bad app..It dint. > > it greets with their username only if they also > > have my application X installed in their profile.. > > > Im using , > > > var opt_params = { }; > > > opt_params[opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields.PROFILE_DETAILS] > > = [ > > opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL > > ]; > > > req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER, > > opt_params), "viewer"); > > > to get the profile viewer's user name. > > > I tried this both in IE and Firefox. > > > Is it like... An application will get the user_name of VIEWER only > > if he/she also has the same application installed in his/her profile?? > > > --Antony- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@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-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---