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 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)