Addition to hi5-lifecycle: invitePingUrl

One common request we've gotten was to return more information about invites to developers. To do this, we've implemented a new lifecycle event for the hi5-lifecycle feature called invitePingUrl. Here's sample usage along with the two previous events, install and remove. This should be added into ModulePrefs:

<Optional feature="hi5-lifecycle">
    <Param name="installPingUrl" value="http://yourserver/handleInstall"/>
    <Param name="removePingUrl" value="http://yourserver/handleRemove"/>
    <Param name="invitePingUrl" value="http://yourserver/handleInvite"/>
</Optional>

This is a good time for a refresher on the existing events, so here's what to expect from each event:

NAME                   FIRES                METHOD       PARAMS
installPingUrl        After install         POST             uid = userid of installing user
removePingUrl      After uninstall     POST             uid = userid of uninstalling user
invitePingUrl         After invite          POST            uid = userid of inviter, sent_ids = userids successfully sent to

One other note -- these pings are not currently signed. This has been requested by several developers and we do have a feature request open for this, although we don't have an ETA on that being completed at the moment.

Hope you find this useful.

2 Comments

Why not use OAuth for signing the pings?

This is on our roadmap. We are close to announcing OAuth support and after that can enable this as well.

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