Presentation of the Space proposal for OpenSocial 3.0 summit.

1. Space proposal for OS.next
Evgeny Bogdanov
February 28, 2012
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2. Content
Why Space??
Main spec changes
APIs
Points to discuss
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3. Person model
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4. What is missing?
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5. Space model
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6. Space/Group confusion
Not to confuse with OpenSocial groups!
Group - to tag people (like circles in Google+)
Friends
Relatives
Best friends
Project partners
Space - a context shared by several people
University course
Facebook group
OpenSocial group on Google Groups
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7. Space support in spec
Context = {
id : User-Id / Space-Id ,
type : @person / @space ,
object : Person / Space
}
Gadget gets its context
opensocial.getContext
// or
osapi.context.get
Security token
st=Viewer-Id:Context-Id:1:1:1:1:1:Context-Type
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8. Main APIs changes
Get people
Before: /people/User-Id/Group-Id
Space: /people/Context-Id/Group-Id [/Context-Type]
Get appdata
Before: /appdata/User-Id/Group-Id[/App-Id]
Space: /appdata/Context-Id/Group-Id[/Context-Type][/App-Id]
Get groups
Before: /groups/User-Id[/Group-Id]
Space: /groups/Context-Id[/Group-Id][/Context-Type]
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9. To discuss
JS getContext API
APIs (backward compatible??)
AppData (some clarifications are needed)
Groups vs Groups+Roles
Implementation in Shindig (incremental)
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10. Questions
Thank you for your attention!
http://docs.opensocial.org/display/OSD/Space+Proposal
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