August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
20h 53m
English
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The JavaScript
The JavaScript layer will act as our controller for the application, providing the data-fetching methods to access profiles and friendships:
<script type="text/javascript"> var socialController = { //fetch profile photos for friends fetchConnections: function(insertID){ osapi.people.get({userId: "@viewer", groupId: "@friends", count: 36}).execute(function(result){ var friends = result.list; var html = ''; for (var i = 0; i < friends.length; i++){ html += "<img src='" + friends[i].thumbnailUrl + "'onclick= 'socialController.loadProfile(\"" + friends[i].id + "\");' />"; } document.getElementById(insertID).innerHTML = html; }); }, //load profile for a given user loadProfile: function(uid){ osapi.people.get({userId: uid}).execute(function(result){ if (!result.error){ //build basic profile information var name = result.name.givenName + " " + result.name.familyName; var html = "<img src='" + result.thumbnailUrl + "' alt='profile image' />" + "<div><span>Name:</span> " + name + "</div>" + "<div><span>Gender:</span> " + result.gender + "</div>" + "<div><span>Profile URL:</span> <a href='" + result.profileUrl + "'>" + result.profileUrl + "</a></div><br />" + "<div class='header'>Profile URLs</div>"; //load all urls for the user for (var i = 0; i < result.urls.length; i++){ html += "<div><span>" + result.urls[i].type + ": </span>" + "<a href='" + result.urls[i].value + "'>" + result.urls[i].value + "</a></div>"; } //add new markup to the application document.getElementById("profileContent").innerHTML ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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