Hi Kogan. You're actually talking about two things here: extended network access (e.g. friends of friends) and the REST API, which will enable you to query for friends using Java or any other other HTTP- aware language. Unfortunately, neither is available at this point -- although orkut's sandbox has support for version 0.8 of the OpenSocial JavaScript API, extended network distance is not implemented yet and the OpenSocial REST API is still in development.
When/if extended network distance is supported by orkut, it's quite likely that you may not be able to query for a user's friends if they don't have your application installed in the same way that your app can't access the viewer's friends if he/she doesn't have the app installed. This is not intended to discourage data portability but rather protect the privacy of users who may not want to share their information with your app. So while your application sounds great in theory, it may be difficult to implement given the permission issues. Of course, you're more than welcome to build a proof of concept, but that will have to wait until extended network distance is supported which is not as high a priority as finishing REST API development. If you want to chat about this more, join us in the OpenSocial IRC channel tomorrow where we'll be answering questions about the orkut platform: http://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/09/extended-office-hours-this-thursday.html - Jason On Sep 17, 12:08 am, Kogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Hello, according to the Blog, the SandBox does support > OpenSocial 0.8 (right? this is our first question...) > > now, regarding the question above - it regards this other post (of my > partner) > -http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/... > (and this general post that explains about the application we would > like to develope > -http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/...) > > So, the thing is - at some points, a user initiates a certain request, > which calls for the need to retrieve his friends, and their friends > (until a certain depth degree...). > So, we need to run a BFS algorithm to do this. And this is what we > asked above: because we wanted to do it on our back-end server (using > java - more convinient etc..). > > What do you suggest we do then? (do it all using JavaScript, on our > app's xml file? or is it possibe the way we described it above?) > > Thanks a lot :) > > Kogan. > > On Sep 17, 1:40 am, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > orkut does not allow you to fetch friends of friends at this time. > > Currently, your app can access the application's owner's friend list > > as well as the current user's if he/she has the application installed. > > OpenSocial 0.8 provides a way of fetching the friends of an arbitrary > > user but orkut doesn't support this just yet. > > > - Jason > > > On Sep 15, 9:28 am, Roey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to recover my freind's friends list, and their friends > > > list etc > > > > is there any chance to do that BFS\DFS algorithm from my back-end > > > server? > > > > Thanks in Advance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
