Hello Arne, I have posted a question here but haven't heard anyone from google yet. Can you please help.
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut/browse_thread/thread/6cc6cc9afbb66173 Thanks Nemesh On Jul 4, 7:34 am, "Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We worked this out in the IRC room but I wanted to post the answer > here in case someone else found this thread wondering the same thing > (sorry for the chatlog transcript, but I didn't want to misrepresent > what was said): > > <kurrik> > the response of that will be an object like { "<user id>" : <key,value > data> } > if the user doesn't have any data, I don't believe that they will show > up in that object > so if nobody has that data, then you should get { } back > > <PSobota> > ok.. would that object have any name or it's a dynamically created > object? > > <kurrik> > just dynamically created - should be what you get out of the getData() > call > if you set data, you should see something in there > > <PSobota> > { "<user id>" : <key,value data> } is this a dictionary of > dictionaries? what would be this called? > > <kurrik> > you can think of it that way > in js, it's all just "objects" > but objects <==> dictionaries for the most part > > <PSobota> > i am looking for a way to test whether that has nothing inside.. but > looks like js doesn't have a dictionary syntax > like.. have i gotten {} back? init the data to some string > > <kurrik> > I see > hm, I'm actually surprised that I wasn't able to find a better way to > do this > assuming the response is called "obj" > var keys = 0; > for (var i in obj) if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) keys++; > if (keys == 0) { > <init the data> > > } > > On Jul 3, 1:04 pm, Pedro Sobota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is there a way to check what data type is being returned from my > > dataResponse.get(key).getData() calls? > > > From the docs: > > > "Calling dataResponse.get(key).getData() returns the actual response > > data for a successful request. Here are response data types associated > > with common requests: > > > * When you request the viewer or owner, you get an > > opensocial.Person object back. > > * When you request a group of friends, you get an > > opensocial.Collection of opensocial.Person objects." > > > I am requesting a storage value and it would make sense to receive a > > null should there be no value stored with that name, but I get instead > > an object that doesn't equal to false, null or anything else, and that > > I can't check the type of, and a false hadError(), meaning the > > response was sucessful. > > > Thanks, > > > Pedro Sobota- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
