[OpenAjaxGadgets] API jsdoc and interfaces

[Howard Weingram]

Hi, Jon. 

Glad to help!

On 4/1/09 11:40 AM, "Jon Ferraiolo" <jferrai at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi Howard,
> Thanks for doing this! I haven't done a deep review of the API descriptions
> that you have done, but at the surface level things look very good. This
> certainly represents great progress on an editorial issue and hammering out
> technical details.
> 
> I copied/pasted all of your API descriptions into the fresh new "Widget
> APIs" chapter in the metadata spec:

Thank you!

> I noticed one typo, where you had getProxyUrl() in the file twice.
> Obviously, the second occurrence was supposed to be makeRequest(). I made a
> minor change to the open source before copying into the spec.

Yes. Thanks!  
 
> I'll schedule a Gadgets phone call for this Monday to talk about the issues
> you raised.

Very good. Thank you.

Email comments are welcome too. I want to make sure that this is the
complete API. 

> 
> Thanks once again. This helps A LOT!
> 
> Jon
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> Hi everyone.
> 
> I have checked in a file in the gadgets/src directory:
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>         oawidget.js
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> This contains the interface definitions and JSDoc comments for the
> following, without implementation code, so that we can see them,
> discuss them and fix them without waiting for the implementation
> code changes to finish in widget.js.
> 
> In the JSDoc comments, I identify several potential issues:
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>     * Errors are currently undefined.
> 
>     * The dimensions operations are currently synchronous/blocking,
>         whereas Hub communication is asynchronous. Functions
>         related to dimensions probably need callbacks to
>         handle the responses.
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> The interfaces defined in oawidget.js are as follows:
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>     OpenAjax.widget.Error
> 
>         Standard errors should be defined here.
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>     OpenAjax.widget.Event
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>         Event object.
>         JSDoc comments only (no code)
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>     OpenAjax.widget.Dimensions
> 
>         Dimensions object with width and/or height
>         JSDoc comments only (no code)
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>     OpenAjax.widget.Widget
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>         Widget implementation object defined in jsClass.
>         JSDoc comments only (no code)
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>     OpenAjax.widget.WidgetAdapter
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>         Interface definition for widget.OpenAjax
> 
> I have not yet defined params objects for the various functions that
> require
> them.
> 
> Please take a look and comment.
> 
> Regards,
> Howard
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