[orkut-developer] Re: thousands of friends, user selection.

2008-12-01 Thread Vijaya
You can pre-fetch the friends list during the app initialization and even store it locally in your app if you can afford staleness of the data. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" g

[orkut-developer] Re: thousands of friends, user selection.

2008-11-28 Thread David Wilson (entertainment cloud)
Is it considered bad form/possible to pre-fetch all of the users friends on app initialisation? this seems like a large data set, that may not be used in the app interaction, but would reduce lag when the picker was needed. On Nov 28, 9:32 am, Vijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently the

[orkut-developer] Re: thousands of friends, user selection.

2008-11-28 Thread Vijaya
Currently the only filters supported in the API are HAS_APP and TOP_FRIENDS. You will have to implement your own filter to do the pattern matching that you need. This does sound like a strong usecase, so,you can propose an enhancement to the API at: http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Spec_