opensocial-jquery templates 0.1.0 is available. It's HTML DOM based JavaScript template library for OpenSocial Application.

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opensocial-jquery templates 0.1.0 is available.
http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-jquery/

opensocial-jquery templates is HTML DOM based JavaScript template library for OpenSocial Application. It is based on implementation of Apache Shindig and has compatibility with subset of OpenSocial Templates.

opensocial-jquery templates supports the following markup in OSML:

* ${Expr} variables and expressions into a element text and a attribute
* Set of special variables: Top, Cur, Context.index, Context.Count and Msg
* Set of special attributes: if, repeat, and var

This example is fetching and rendering a group of people using Ajax and Template.



The HTML template is as follows:

<div id="wrapper" style="display:none;">
<div repeat="${people}" class="person">
<img alt="${Cur.displayName}" src="${Cur.thumbnailUrl}" />
<a title="${Cur.displayName}" href="${Cur.profileUrl}">${Cur.displayName}</a>
</div>
<div if="${people.length > 0}" class="pager">
Showing friends from ${people.startIndex + 1} 
  to ${people.startIndex + people.length } 
  of ${people.totalResults}
</div>
<div if="${people.length == 0}" class="pager">
There's no friend yet.
</div>
</div>

The JavaScript is as follows:

$.getData('/people/@owner/@friends', function(data) {
  $('#wrapper').render({ people: data }).show();
});

View of the finished source code

opensocial-jquery templates is usable with the container which does
not support OpenSocial v0.9. And different from OpenSocial Templates of the XML base, you can edit opensocial-jquery templates by an HTML authoring tool visually. It will make a programmer and a designer happy.

Thank you.