Constructing a gadget with different preferences

[Hafiz A Haq <ha...@gmail.com>]

Hi team,

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but still i thought i
will shoot it.

First up let me clarify my dev environment.

I have setup Shindig in my webserver and i am using it to render various
igoogle gadgets and my custom gadgets into my dashboard.

We are developing our application with GWT/Flex and is converting these
pages into gadgets by makin use of google-gadgets-api.

The google gadget api provides a UserPreferences object in gadgets init
method and i could use this object to retrieve the preferences set by the
user.

My question, how could i populate this userpreferences object while
constructing the gadget?

Or rather is there a standard way i should construct my gadget url appending
the user preferences to let the gadget constructor code to render based on
the provided preferences?

I am using gadget metadata service retrieve the gadget metadata and render
the iframe using the javascript

newGadgetChrome.innerHTML = [
      '<iframe src="', gadget.iframeUrl, '&libs=', libs ,
      '" id="remote_iframe_', gadget.moduleId, '" name="remote_iframe_',
       gadget.moduleId, '" style="height :', gadget.height, '"></iframe>'
    ].join("");


Thanks and Regards,
Hafiz


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Re: Constructing a gadget with different preferences

[Hafiz A Haq <ha...@gmail.com>]

Thank you Tim.

It was actually simpler than i thought, but i had to  debug RPCServlet.java
to understand how to pass preferences along with request object.

var requestObj = {
    context: {
      ...
    },
     gadgets: [
      {
        url: gadgetUrl,
        moduleId: 0,
       * prefs:
        {
           pref1:val1,
           pref2:val2
        }*
      }
      ]

  };

The bold text was the key.

Thanks and Regards,
Hafiz

2009/4/2 Tim Moore <tm...@atlassian.com>

>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Hafiz A Haq wrote:
>
>  Or rather is there a standard way i should construct my gadget url
>> appending
>> the user preferences to let the gadget constructor code to render based on
>> the provided preferences?
>>
>
> Yes. Add a set of query parameters named like up_prefname with the value
> set to the string value of the user pref (list prefs are pipe (|) delimited;
> literal pipes should be URL-encoded).
>
> Look at getIframeUrl and getUserPrefsParams in <
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/shindig/trunk/javascript/container/gadgets.js?view=markup>
> for an example.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Tim Moore
>
>


-- 
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a
fool forever.

Re: Constructing a gadget with different preferences

[Tim Moore <tm...@atlassian.com>]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Hafiz A Haq wrote:

> Or rather is there a standard way i should construct my gadget url  
> appending
> the user preferences to let the gadget constructor code to render  
> based on
> the provided preferences?

Yes. Add a set of query parameters named like up_prefname with the  
value set to the string value of the user pref (list prefs are pipe  
(|) delimited; literal pipes should be URL-encoded).

Look at getIframeUrl and getUserPrefsParams in <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/shindig/trunk/javascript/container/gadgets.js?view=markup 
 > for an example.

Cheers,
-- 
Tim Moore