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OpenSocial Doc Review Part 1 : Data APIs are all AtomPub based.

November 2nd, 2007
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Starting to read through the OpenSocial API documentation the most striking feature is that ALL of the underlying data APIs are Atom and AtomPub based.

  • The People Data API exposes people (viewer, owner, friends) via Atom feed documents and Atom entry documents. However, there is no AtomPub support for this feed so people cannot be created/updated/deleted via API. I suspect this will cause some debate as it means some fairly critical data remains locked into the underlying OpenSocial containers
  • The Activities Data API exposes activities (news feeds etc) as a Atom feeds. The Activities data feed can be fully manipulated (CRUD) via Atom/AtomPub requests.
  • The Persistence Data API exposes name/value pair data (e.g. configuration params) as a Atom feeds. The persistence data feed can be fully manipulated (CRUD) via Atom/AtomPub requests.

I’m off for a curry but more later today. Here’s a teaser though – authentication is a concern….

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