YAP / Open Mail Overview

Application Platforms on Yahoo! Yahoo! Application Platform and Open Mail Jonathan LeBlanc Technology Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network Twitter: @jcleblanc

EXAMPLES | TUTORIALS | CODE SAMPLES
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The Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)

Open ID – Single Account Sign-in

OAuth - Open Authentication

SDKs (Software Development Kits)
PHP, Python, Java, ActionScript 3,
Objective-C, and OpenSocial REST APIs
http://www.github.com/yahoo

OAuth – What Does the End-User See?

What is OpenSocial?
OpenSocial API
For developing applications on social networks
Accessing social data (profiles, connections)
Fetching and inserting activities
Implemented by many containers
Develop once, distribute broadly

Fetching User Data & Making Requests
Examples for OpenSocial & PHP
Fetching Profiles
Fetching and Inserting Updates
Fetching Connections
Making AJAX Requests

Collecting User Data With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8 $session = YahooSession:: requireSession ($key, $secret, $app_id) $user = $session-> getSessionedUser (); $profile = $user-> getProfile (); ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- var req = opensocial.newDataRequest() ; var params = {}; params[ opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields.PROFILE_DETAILS ] = [ opensocial.Person.Field.NAME , opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL ]; req.add(req. newFetchPersonRequest ('VIEWER', params), 'viewer_profile'); req.send(response);

Fetching Updates With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8

Getting Updates With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8
$session = YahooSession:: requireSession ($key, $secret, $app_id)
$user = $session-> getSessionedUser ();
$updates = $user-> getUpdates ();
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();
var spec = new opensocial.IdSpec ();
spec.setField (opensocial.IdSpec.Field.USER_ID, opensocial.IdSpec.PersonId.OWNER);
req.add(req. newFetchActivitiesRequest (spec), 'ownerActivities');
req.send(handleActivities);

Inserting Updates With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8
$session = YahooSession:: requireSession ($key, $secret, $app_id)
$user = $session-> getSessionedUser ();
$update = $user-> insertUpdate ($suid, $title, $link, $description);
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var params = {}, activity;
params[ opensocial.Activity.Field.TITLE ] = title;
params[ opensocial.Activity.Field.BODY ] = body;
activity = opensocial.newActivity (params);
opensocial.requestCreateActivity (
activity,
opensocial.CreateActivityPriority.LOW,
callback);

Fetching Connections With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8

Fetching Connections With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8
$session = YahooSession::requireSession($key, $secret, $app_id)
$user = $session->getSessionedUser();
$connections = $user->getConnections();
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
var idspec = opensocial.newIdSpec ({ 'userId' : 'OWNER', 'groupId' : 'FRIENDS' });
var req = opensocial.newDataRequest();
req.add( req.newFetchPersonRequest ('OWNER'), 'get_owner');
req.add( req.newFetchPeopleRequest (idspec), 'get_friends');
req.send(responseFriends);

Making YQL Requests With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8
$application = new YahooApplication ($key, $secret);
$results = $application-> query (
‘ select * from delicious.feeds.popular’);

Making YQL Requests With PHP & OpenSocial 0.8
var params = {};
var url = ' http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20flickr.photos.search%20where%20text%3D%22Times%20Square%22 '
var callback = callbackFunc;
params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = gadgets.io.ContentType.TEXT ;
params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.METHOD] = gadgets.io.MethodType.GET ;
gadgets.io.makeRequest (url, callback, params);

Front-end Security

Front-end Security: Caja
Caja Security
Very secure model (blacklist all)
Aims to protect end-users
Full content control
IFrame Concerns
Drive-by downloads
No content restrictions
Other known exploits

Front-end Security: Caja Cajoling Process
<script type="text/javascript">
function response(obj) {
if (obj.text){
document.getElementById('interact').setInnerHTML('Populated!');
document.getElementById('population').setInnerHTML(obj.errors);
}
}
</script>

Front-end Security: Caja Cajoling Process
var $dis = $v.getOuters();
$v.initOuter('onerror');
$v.so('response', ___.markFuncFreeze(function () {
function response$_caller($dis, obj) {
if ($v.r(obj, 'text')) {
$v.cm($v.cm($v.ro('document'), 'getElementById', [ 'interact' ]),
'setInnerHTML', [ 'Populated!' ]);
$v.cm($v.cm($v.ro('document'), 'getElementById', [ 'population' ]),
'setInnerHTML', [ $v.r(obj, 'errors') ]);
}
}
response$_caller.FUNC___ = 'response$_caller';
var response;;
response = $v.dis(___.primFreeze(response$_caller), 'response');
return response;

Open Mail

Apps are self contained

“Plug-ins” implicitly enhance experience

Today ?

Contextual plugins X Large File Attachment Your file is over 25MB. Would you like to upload and create a link to your large file? OK

Contextual plugins Flickr photo(s) Past files Yahoo! Map

And the ideas get crazier….

Active Mail

An evolution, not a revolution
We always looked for developers to build features that were a natural fit
This semantic shift represents enhancements to the invocation point, not radical changes in the functionality
e.g. contextually launch “Share Attachments”
e.g. invoke Picnik contextually OnCompose
e.g. detect an invitation and gently suggest upgrade to Evite

Flexible API for Mail feature development
Flickr
Groups
MyPhotos (formerly Xoopit)
Wretch
Third-party companies, as appropriate

What we are NOT doing

Questions?

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YAP / Open Mail Overview

by Jonathan LeBlanc on Nov 10, 2009

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