Social Networking Library

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