Permission support in Shindig

[Roopa Trivedi (rotrived)]

Hi,
I'm new to Shindig and am trying to figure out if Shindig supports the
opensocial.hasPermission api.
Acc. to the docs, Shindig supports Open Social API 0.8.1 and 0.9. The
hasPermission api is included in both these versions.

I tried running the attached sample within Shindig and I get a msg
indicating "Requesting permission is not implemented on this
container.". Is this expected or am I using it incorrectly?

If I need to direct this request to a separate mailer, pls let me know.
Thanks,
Roopa

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 
<Module>
  <ModulePrefs title="Checking for Permission" >
 
    <Require feature="opensocial-0.8"/>
  </ModulePrefs>
  <Content type="html">
  <![CDATA[
    <h2>Owner:</h2>
    <div id="owner-output">No data.</div>
 
    <h2>Viewer:</h2>
    <div id="viewer-output">No data.</div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      /**
       * Request permission for the VIEWER if the app does not have it.
       */
      function requestPermission() {
        if (opensocial.hasPermission(opensocial.Permission.VIEWER)) {
          requestData();
        } else {
          var reason = "To demonstrate permission capabilities";
 
          opensocial.requestPermission(opensocial.Permission.VIEWER, reason, onPermissionRequested);
        }
      };
 
      /**
       * Handle the response for the request for VIEWER information.
       */
      function onPermissionRequested(response) {
        if (response.hadError()) {
          switch(response.getErrorCode()) {
            case opensocial.ResponseItem.Error.NOT_IMPLEMENTED :
              alert("Requesting permission is not implemented on this container.");
              break;
 
            default:
              alert("There was a problem requesting permission: " + response.getErrorMessage());
              break;
          };
        }
        requestData();
 
      };
 
      /**
       * Request the OWNER (and VIEWER if we have permission).
       */
      function requestData() {
        var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();
        req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER), "owner");
 
        // If we have permission to see the viewer's info, then add it to the request.
        if (opensocial.hasPermission(opensocial.Permission.VIEWER)) {
          req.add(req.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.VIEWER), "viewer");
 
        }
        req.send(showData);
      };
 
      /**
       * Shows the response from the request for Person data.
       */
      function showData(data) {
        var owner = data.get("owner").getData();
        var ownerOutput = document.getElementById("owner-output");
 
        showPerson(owner, ownerOutput);
        if (opensocial.hasPermission(opensocial.Permission.VIEWER)) {
          var viewer = data.get("viewer").getData();
          var viewerOutput = document.getElementById("viewer-output");
          showPerson(viewer, viewerOutput);
        }
      }
 
      /**
       * Prints information about a person.
       */
      function showPerson(person, div) {
        var name = person.getDisplayName();
        var thumb = person.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL);
        var html = '<img src="' + thumb + '"/>' + name;
        div.innerHTML = html;
      }
 
      //Execute requestData when the page is done loading
      gadgets.util.registerOnLoadHandler(requestPermission);
    </script>
  ]]>
  </Content>
</Module>