Hi R. Your application should only be able to access information for users who have the application installed. This means that for guest users (users who are viewing an application on another profile but don't have the app installed themselves), the VIEWER object will be null, and hence, viewer ID, name, and other properties won't be available. opensocial_viewer_id is being passed with all signed requests regardless of whether the current user has the app, but this is a bug:
http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/issues/detail?id=168 OWNER refers to the user who installed a given application while VIEWER refers to the user using that application at a given point in time. If user A installs the application, he represents the OWNER (and possibly the VIEWER if he is interacting with the application on his own profile). If user B visits user A's profile and begins using the app, now he represents the VIEWER, but his information won't be available to the app if he doesn't have it installed himself. In this case, your application should show only OWNER data which is always available. These articles have more on roles in OpenSocial: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/persistence-0.8.html http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/datarequests/datarequests-0.8.html Please let me know if you have any more questions on this. - Jason On Oct 6, 9:49 am, rd-london <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Wonder if anyone can help. > > I have an 0.7 OpenSocial appln that is currently successfully > performing a signed makeRequest, and for the application owner is > returning the following all fine: > > viewer.getId(); > viewer.getDisplayName(); > viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.NAME); > viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL); > viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL); > > However, when someone who is a friend of the owner uses the > application (and where the friend does *not* install the application), > the output of getId() is zero, and the others are all empty. So it > doesn't seem to work for a 'viewer'. What's very peculiar though is > that the raw GET data sent by the signed makeRequest call contains > what seems to be a valid "opensocial_viewer_id":"______" (did contain > a sensible value). > > This is all in the Sandbox. Can't use 0.8 as this also needs to run on > other containers that only use 0.7. > > Anyone any help with this? > > Many thanks, > R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
