Great, thanks Chris!
G.-
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to the spec ANY key that is unique should be able to be specified
> by the indexBy field.
>
> So the ID is one, and the name might be :)
>
> Cassie and i had a conversation on the list about this before and we
> decided to make a general functionality for this in the social services that
> reworded the data array's, so that the containers don't have to bother with
> this, but we also agreed it's a pretty ugly construction to begin with :)
>
> I'd say ... damn it all and just do whatever the gadget requests ... in
> other words if they want to set indexBy to gender ... just reword the array
> to 2 entries, one for male and one for female, with both containing only the
> last entry (since the other ones are over-written every time). Thats a lot
> easier then to decided for the container what fields are or are not unique..
> and if the gadget requests something stupid, it's their problem and not ours
> :)
>
> So i'd go for something like:
>
> foreach <results> as <result>:
> newOutput[ <result key> ] = <result>
> return newOutput
>
> simple, dirty, effective :)
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Gonzalo Aune wrote:
>
> Hi people,
>>
>> im working adding the indexBy param to the query as the 6.5 section of the
>> RESTful API Spec says, and i was wondering how it exactly works:
>>
>> a) The unique key is choosed between the results, ie:
>>
>> {"name":{"familyName":"Aune 2","givenName":"Gonzalo
>> 2","unstructured":"Gonzalo 2 Aune
>> 2"},"gender":{"displayValue":"Male","key":"MALE"},"id":"2"},
>> {"name":{"familyName":"Aune 3","givenName":"Gonzalo
>> 3","unstructured":"Gonzalo 3 Aune
>> 3"},"gender":{"displayValue":"Male","key":"MALE"},"id":"3"}
>>
>> The unique keys are id, familyName, givenName, unstructured, but no the
>> gender
>>
>> b) The unique key is the one of the OpenSocial spec, ie, the 'id'.
>>
>> I think the option A is the right, but im asking you people to help me
>> with
>> this =)
>>
>> G.-
>>
>
>
