Hi all, Both versions 0.8 and 0.9 of the OS Gadgets API spec include the following language regarding the process for outputing gadget content in 0.9 section 3.1.3.6.c ( http://www.opensocial.org/Technical-Resources/opensocial-spec-v09/Gadgets-API-Specification.html#process ):
-------------------------< Start Snip >--------------------------- For type URL gadgets, the provided URL MUST have the following parameters added to it: a. up_<name>=<value> for each provided user preference. b. lang=<language> and country=<country>, from the provided request Locale. c. libs=<jsLib>, where <jsLib> is a comma-separated list of URL path fragments relative to the server's JavaScript request handler path. These fragments are added to the JS path by the type URL target to load gadget API JavaScript into its execution context. a. The server SHOULD consolidate all libs into a single request to minimize the number of HTTP requests made by the client browser. -------------------------< End Snip >--------------------------- In particular, I'm interested in sub-bullet "a", which I believe describes the behavior I see on http://hosting.gmodules.com whereby the URL specified in a Content type="url" gadget has appended to it name value pairs for each user preference. What is curious is that, while gmodules handles this type of request as I'd expect, we've not been able to get the Java version of shindig (beta 3, I believe) to do the same. We've checked out the code and ran it through the debugger and it appears that the href object passed to the redirection code does not contain values in the query parameter, that I thought might have the userpref values within it. So for a simple Gadget such as: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113570023379904426818/StockCharts.xml <UserPref name="Symbol" display_name="Symbol" default_value="QQQQ"/> <UserPref name="Duration" display_name="Chart Duration" default_value="1y" datatype="enum"> <EnumValue value="3m" display_value="3 months"/> <EnumValue value="6m" display_value="6 months"/> <EnumValue value="1y" display_value="1 year"/> </UserPref> <Content type="url" href=" http://finance.diagramics.com/GoogleGadgets/StockCharts/StockCharts.aspx "/> So via url: http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/113570023379904426818/StockCharts.xml , gmodules passes that to diagramics.com as: http://finance.diagramics.com/GoogleGadgets/StockCharts/StockCharts.aspx?up_Symbol=QQQQ&up_Duration=1y&lang=en&country=us&.lang=en&.country=us&synd=ig&mid=0&ifpctok=-3826154864153791449&parent=&libs=7XmBcHbMdDM/lib/libcore.js,Key5alrYVUI/lib/libfinance.js . However the same request through Shindig yields: http://finance.diagramics.com/GoogleGadgets/StockCharts/StockCharts.aspx What I'm wanting to understand is whether this is simply function that hasn't been implemented yet, if I'm not understanding that aspect of the spec, or if perhaps we've configured or are using our shindig instance incorrectly. Is there someone who can help me understand please what we should be expecting to happen here? Thanks in advance for your help, John Gerken Senior Architect, Emerging Internet Technologies IBM Emerging Technologies Software Group [email protected] IBM Internal Blog: http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/[email protected]/ IBM External Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/etech
