Spec Changes - v3.0

This page will be used to track the proposals for OpenSocial 3.0!

Each entry should be a link to the Feature request on OpenSocial Resources. 

New Proposals

• Completion of the initial Spaces proposal work (Incubate in 2.5)
• Refactor the MediaItems/Albums service and combine with the CMIS work to have a single consistent File service? (related: Issue 1174) (Incubate in 2.5)
• Revised Specification Process
• File upload (how does this relate to multi-part upload)
• Protocol and Data Format Versioning (threads: [1][2]... module versioning as well?)
• Define AppData as a Core Service (not an optional Social Service)
• Adding resources on OpenSocial objects
• Opened Issues:
  • Optional, extension query string parameters.
  • connectionTimeout and readTimeout Parameters?
• Make shared-script-frame a specified feature.
• Search For OpenSocial Data (see also, Persistent Query Service proposal)

• 3.0 REST API Updates
  • Simplification?
  • Refactorization?
  • Leveraging new emerging HTTP capabilities (PATCH, Link and Prefer headers)
• Updated Person model
• Persistent Query Service REST API
• Proxy Service REST API
• Federated Social Context
• Simplified Discovery
• Microdata Mapping
• Simplify Cache Service

Spec Cleanup 

• Simplification and Clarification of entire spec** Drop Core API Spec Document... merge it's stuff more intelligently into the other specifications
  • Provide a new Use-Case Driven Primer
•  There are many, many more issues... See here for a small sampling... (preview)
• Move container language from other specs into common container spec (Issue 1247) 

Candidates for Deprecation

• Deprecate OAuth 1.0 requirements
• Can we deprecate or at least separate the RPC protocol.. perhaps isolate it for use only with the Javascript API?
• Can we deprecate the XML Format???  (must have replacement API incubating)
• Deprecate media items / albums in lieu of CMIS alignment
• Deprecate makeRequest  (must have fixed osapi API incubating)