Social Networking Library
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Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide instructions for developers wishing to exploit Social Networking from within their applications.
The gCube Social Library, so far, provides methods for:
- Publishing Users Posts;
- Retrieving Users Feeds, Comments, Likes;
- Managing Users Connections;
- Managing Users Notifications;
- Publishing Application Posts.
Architecture Scenario
The gCube Social Networking Library is the 'bridge' between your gCube Applications and the social networking facilities as depicted in the figure 1 below. The social networking facilities exploit a NoSQL data store for their storage. Specifically an Apache Cassandra data store.
How to use the gCube Social Networking Library (SNL)
Your gCube Application will the SNL through a specific ASL Extension, the ASL Social Extension