Making Liferay Social - Opensocial

Wow Ray, that was fast!!

Congratulations!

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Ray, anyplace where we can download the plugin to take a look and play a bit with it?

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It's in the plugins SVN module.

https://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk/portlets/shindig-portlet

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Ray, I tried to toy around with shindig-portlet - to no avail. I entered a few gadget urls and couldn't get anything to render/display. Using lportal 5.0.* branch and the latest from plugins trunk.

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/744781

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Yeah, sorry about that!

Three points here...

1) Currently one part of the portlet is broken because we remove the public interfaces for Expando, which is used for user preferences and opensocial data service. It was a little bit of a security risk... so while we're resolving that security issue, I have to provide a solution for the portlet (which means that until I fix that, the portlet is broken). Sorry!

2) You won't be able to render most things that are designed on/for gmodules/iGoogle because they use lots of iGoogle extensions which aren't part of the spec. Use the examples found in the /shindig-portlet/files/samplecontainer/examples/*, like SocialHelloWorld.xml. There might be a few existing gadgets out there that work... but they will be very simple... check the Shindig site for some that will work.

3) The Shindig used in this portlet is from SVN about three weeks back, and if you take a gander at the project lately, the code is almost completely different... there has been so much refactoring going on that it will be a few weeks before it stabilizes enough so that I can bring in a more updated/working version.

Shindig is very much a moving target right now. Once it's clearly stable and the specs are finalized, we may end up doing an integration directly in the portal.. as opposed to being a portlet (this is my personal goal and one I'll push for when the time comes emoticon

). But right now, it's just not feasible.

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Ray, how can I install the portlet: "Shindig portlet" ?
It´s not available in the Pluggin Admin inside to the liferay portal...

Please help me.

Is there any tutorial about how to install "Shindig portlet" ?

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Hello Ray,

I added the Shindig portlet (gadgets-svn-r648103.war) to liferay portal, inside the "Pluggin Admin" through this link: https://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk/portlets/shindig-portlet

File: gadgets-svn-r648103.war

But I couldn't add a content in the porlet... Could you help me?
Do you have any example or tutorial on how to include content Shindig portlet?

Thanks!

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Hi Ray

Please tell me, is the current shindig-portlet in the trunk working with liferay 5.12 ???

I have installed the plugin, the portlet is added but displays nothing. No errors nothing.

Could you please tell me what am i doing wrong??
Kindly reply.

Thanks & Regards
Parul Seth

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Hi Ray,

I'd like to update this to work current versions of Shindig and Liferay. And to that end, I'd like to understand the state of the Expando interfaces which you were previously using for user preferences, etc.

What was the security issue that you mention lead to the removal of the Expando JSON interface(s)? And is there any alternative you'd recommend I look into to get a user preferences mechanism working again?

I'm very familiar with Shindig and OpenSocial, but less so with Liferay. So I'm particularly interested in any guidance on how to do things in a way that will best align with Liferay's existing services, etc.

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Great Jamey! I seem to remember you from last year on the Shindig list.

There is definitely a way to get around not having direct ajax to the Expando API calls.

I was simply going to write an ajax action into the portlet plugin such that this action would then make calls to the underlying Expando services.

So,
- step 1) make a portlet which handles the opensocial calls via serverResource
- step 2) make serverResource call the underlying ExpandoLocalServices

BUT, we have some sponsored requests coming down the pipeline to re-implement shindig integration with the portal. It would be really fantastic to have someone experienced on the shindig side assist with that effort.. so you might not have to do it all yourself.

Send me an email [rauge AT liferay.com] and I'll hook you up with the team who are likely to be working on it.

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Hi Ray,

Any update on Opensocial 0.8 version integration with Liferay 5.2.x version. Also, is previous integration allows both external desktop and web applications to get/update to/from liferay.

Regards,
Nagendra

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I think there is a plan to re-implement Shindig in the 5.3 M2 development cycle, which ends ~ end of August time frame.

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Hey guys, I'm just getting started with Liferay and am interested in the opensocial liferay integration. Is the integration ongoing? Is there an SVN branch that I could pull that has anything workable in it right now? I know that its not done but I'd like to start to get a handle on what's going on and possibly get involved. Thanks.

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What is the latest news on Shindig and opensocial? when is 5.3 due out? can we get early versions now?

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This is on the roadmap for post 5.3 GA (a.k.a. after 5.3 EE starts hitting the shelf).

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Hello Ray,

Will Apache Shindig be integrated in Liferay 5.3? Just now, I am working in a project where we need to integrate Liferay and Shindig. I have been studying both Apache Shindig and Liferay (even your Apache Shindig portlet emoticon

). However, in the Liferay’s repository, I cannot find any code related to the integration in the trunk folder. Is there new code about such integration in the Liferay’s repository?

Thank in advance.
Sandy

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Hi Ray,

I found that the current shindig portlet available in the svn trunk was not rendering anything on deployment for Liferay 5.2.0
I have tried to fix the issues,enhanced the features and made it compatible with Liferay 5.2.0.
With respect to this I have also created the issue at Liferay JIRA and its corresponding patch: http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-3097.
The details are also mentioned there. Please let me know your comments for the same.

Regards
Aarti Jain

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