I implemented changes from quitter.se's new API that their front-end qvitter
uses, https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter/blob/master/api-changes-1.1.1/CHANGES
However I left out the URL shortening commens, since I believe whatever behaviour
they experienced that caused them to implement this was a bug (or many) and should
be fixed in their proper areas and that shortening should not be entirely left
out in API calls.
Memcached_DataObject now defines
* pkeyGetClass to avoid collision with Managed_DataObject pkeyGet
* getClassKV to avoid collision with Managed_DataObject getKV
I used this hacky sed-command (run it from your GNU Social root, or change the first grep's path to where it actually lies) to do a rough fix on all ::staticGet calls and rename them to ::getKV
sed -i -s -e '/DataObject::staticGet/I!s/::staticGet/::getKV/Ig' $(grep -R ::staticGet `pwd`/* | grep -v -e '^extlib' | grep -v DataObject:: |grep -v "function staticGet"|cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq)
If you're applying this, remember to change the Managed_DataObject and Memcached_DataObject function definitions of staticGet to getKV!
This might of course take some getting used to, or modification fo StatusNet plugins, but the result is that all the static calls (to staticGet) are now properly made without breaking PHP Strict Standards. Standards are there to be followed (and they caused some very bad confusion when used with get_called_class)
Reasonably any plugin or code that tests for the definition of 'GNUSOCIAL' or similar will take this change into consideration.
In some brief tests, this causes no problems.
In this state however, you would need to modify DB_DataObject to have a static declaration of staticget (and probably pkeyGet). The next commit will change the staticGet overload to a unique function name (like getKV for getKeyValue), which means we can properly call the function by PHP Strict Standards.
The UI for setup and editing is a bit nasty for now. Can be reached via 'Mirroring' tab in account settings, or from a link at top of subscriptions list.
Currently relies on the OStatus plugin to handle actual setup, parsing, and importing of feeds; to support more general feed formatting we may need some further work there to accept weird feeds.
Also requires an actual live subscription, but this could be changed in future. (Ensuring that PSHB feed subscriptions remain live even if nobody's directly subscribed might be tricky.)
The repeat style is our preferred method since it retains full attribution, but right now we don't handle repeats very well across site boundaries; when pushed out to Twitter or to other StatusNet instances via OStatus, currently we end up losing some of the data and can end up with the 'RT @blah' version.
WARNING: There's no loop detection yet; it's most likely possible to set up a fun loop of profiles repeating each others' stuff forever and ever and ever and ever...
Mikael Nordfeldth
Evan Prodromou
Siebrand Mazeland
Brion Vibber