[oae-dev] World creation and message text API

[Chris Roby]

Do we need to repeat the creator and groupname parameters for each person to send the message to?

-- 
Chris Roby

On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:54 AM, N. Matthijs wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> How about something like this? It could give us a little more flexibility
> in how we decide to send out messages:
> 
> ...
> messages: {
> 	"body": "Message Body",
> 	"subject": "Message Subject",
> 	"toSend": [
> 		{
> 			"to": "stuartf",
> 			"parameters": {
> 				"firstName": "Stuart",
> 				"creator": "Nicolaas",
> 				"groupname": "Test Group"
> 			}
> 		},
> 		{
> 			"to": "croby",
> 			"parameters": {
> 				"firstName": "Chris",
> 				"creator": "Nicolaas",
> 				"groupname": "Test Group"
> 			}
> 		}
> 	]
> }
> 
> The service would loop through all items in messages.toSend and
> use the parameters to replace the placeholders in the body and
> subject.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nicolaas
> 
> 
>> This is mostly for Chris Roby and Nico--
>> 
>> The world creation servlet is complete, except for the message text. I
>> still need you two to define what the API for that will be.
>> 
>> As Chris and I discussed, translation of the message has to happen
>> client-side. The server will need to be sent the message subject, body,
>> and
>> translations of all the roles. At [1] I have a very rough sketch, but that
>> was just to get my skeleton code working. It doesn't show role
>> translation.
>> 
>> 
>> There was some question as to whose language the translations should be
>> in. I think for expediency we should go with how it works today (ie, use
>> the sender's language). We can always make it use the recipient's language
>> later as a new feature.
>> 
>> Tomorrow is a holiday for Berkeley, so today (Thursday) is the last day of
>> my sprint 114. If you guys can finish this chunk of API early today I can
>> probably get world creation in under the wire.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -chris
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/ctweney/tools/blob/master/world.sh
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