OpenSocial Tutorial - Part 5: Listing Gifts You've Received

I'd like to see an answer to 665neighorofthebeast's question. Seems like a security problem if everybody can see everybody else's giving.

But more basically, are gifts actually being exchanged? How does clicking on a couple of buttons in this gadget cause actual physical nuts to be sent?

i doubt everyone can see everyone's giving, you can probably only see what your friends gave (though I guess the application might have the power to ignore that 'friends only' restriction).

as for how the gifts are being exchanged, i'm guessing the network implementing opensocial (Orkut in this case), sets aside some storage space for the data of the applications you add

If you look at the example in the tutorial, the gifts being exchanged are not in the form of data or applications, but physical nuts, like cashews and pecans. What data would you put in the storage space? The address and locker number of a warehouse where the nuts are and the combination to the lock? Or some password that can be telephoned to a delivery service so that they will bring them to you?

To be clear, there are no _real_ gifts being sent. This app only sends virtual gifts.

thank you google for ur wonderfull tutorial...i really appreciate it...this help others to learn coding and inspire them to build thier own opensocial apps..... now i am going to make ma own social app for orkut ....thank you thank you thank you very much google.......

theoretically, can't you see all the gifts that are being exchanged, not just ones that involve you? don't all your friends need to install and run this function (provided it's not a default application) for this to work?

well yeah, that's the way all applications work, they only have data on the people that installed them. before you can see the gifts your friends have sent, they have to have installed the application to send them in the first place.

Depends if you're the 'person' variable, or the 'people' var.

I'd say all users need the app installed - how you gonna share virtual nuts without the api controlling the giving...?

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I appreciate that this is dead simple, but a flowchart of the structure would be helpful.
There are suddenly several back and forth asynchronous connections.

Hello Dan Holevoet.
Super good.