Following close behind the release of the OpenSocial 0.8 specification two months ago, we have been hard at work implementing it, and are happy to announce that a beta release is now available to developers. We will be rolling this out to production in the first week of September and would like to give developers ample opportunity to test out our latest implementation thoroughly. The 0.8 version of the specification is completely backwards compatible and we expect that all applications developed on 0.7 will continue to work after the migration.
Possibly the most exciting development in 0.8 is that containers are now required to implement a REST based API according to the RESTful API specification. We hope our implementation will enable developers to build richer server-side, mobile and desktop applications. The complete 0.8 version specification and Release Notes are also available on code.google.com and are a useful read for OpenSocial developers.
To test your application on 0.8, please login to betasandbox.hi5.com with your hi5 account and create an application on the developer console --- you can use your existing application or write a new one. Applications running on betasandbox will access the 0.8 API.
If you find issues please create a ticket using the version "Beta 0.8" in the Developer Center. Please let us know at platform-help@hi5.com if you have any questions.
Possibly the most exciting development in 0.8 is that containers are now required to implement a REST based API according to the RESTful API specification. We hope our implementation will enable developers to build richer server-side, mobile and desktop applications. The complete 0.8 version specification and Release Notes are also available on code.google.com and are a useful read for OpenSocial developers.
To test your application on 0.8, please login to betasandbox.hi5.com with your hi5 account and create an application on the developer console --- you can use your existing application or write a new one. Applications running on betasandbox will access the 0.8 API.
If you find issues please create a ticket using the version "Beta 0.8" in the Developer Center. Please let us know at platform-help@hi5.com if you have any questions.
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As you say, the 0.8 REST is very exciting. Is this implemented?
If so, where is the end point to access the REST api? (api.hi5.com still uses the old REST api)
The endpoint for beta is sandbox.hi5.com.
Sameer.