UserPref server side

[Gregg Horan <Gr...@dealer.com>]

I'm trying figure out how to get the shindig server to pull up my (to- 
be) persistent user preferences, mainly to use the __UP...__  
substitution at this point.  I see where all that substitution takes  
place in java, but I haven't been able to find where the server loads  
them up (except for those passed in with the render request).

 From what I can see, it would be pretty easy to implement the client  
js preference interface backed by a couple rest endpoints (which would  
not need to adhere to any specs themselves).... but how would the  
server be able to leverage that?

Have I missed a server side interface that ties this all in, or are  
userPreferences intended to be client driven - so I need to get them  
first, then create the gadget by passing them back in with the render  
call (doesn't seem right)?

Thanks
Gregg

Re: UserPref server side

[Michael Young <mi...@liferay.com>]

>From what I've seen so far, the UserPrefs are mainly client-driven. It is up
to your implementation to pass in the the UP values to the client container
so that they can be added to the iframe url.

The sample container uses a metadata rpc call to get the UP metadata and
default values from the GadgetSpec.

In our implementation, we've reconstructed the GadgetSpec to get this
metadata in order to create a custom UI to edit user prefs.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Gregg Horan <Gr...@dealer.com> wrote:

> I'm trying figure out how to get the shindig server to pull up my (to-be)
> persistent user preferences, mainly to use the __UP...__ substitution at
> this point.  I see where all that substitution takes place in java, but I
> haven't been able to find where the server loads them up (except for those
> passed in with the render request).
>
> From what I can see, it would be pretty easy to implement the client js
> preference interface backed by a couple rest endpoints (which would not need
> to adhere to any specs themselves).... but how would the server be able to
> leverage that?
>
> Have I missed a server side interface that ties this all in, or are
> userPreferences intended to be client driven - so I need to get them first,
> then create the gadget by passing them back in with the render call (doesn't
> seem right)?
>
> Thanks
> Gregg
>
>
>


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- Mike