Hello n00bster,

It is depends on the 3rd party developer to update their app based on this https://stackideas.com/docs/esnative/administrators/development/rest-api-webview-stream so that the stream item for their component will appear in the native app.

hi Nik, thank you for this information.
i consulted Alejandro from jReviews about that.

You're welcome.

And how does one test the output of the webview in a non-mobile environment to troubleshoot and adjust?

Hello Alejandro,

Right now testing can only be done using the app. It should be pretty straight forward since it's only accepting text and links (no html codes)

Hi Mark,

Yes the format is simple, but as you know code is never straightforward, especially not when there's a complex integration involved. Imagine the complexity in troubleshooting a simple error in this scenario when you are basically flying blind. It would be great if you could enable an endpoint or internal API call to retrieve the result of one of these activities.

Is it possible to pass HTML in the description, or does it need to be stripped first, or you do that on your end? And what about attachments? if someone uploads 4 photos, a couple of videos, can those be somehow included in the stream?

Also, I would like to ask that you please allow passing a user ID as part of the stream object that you can use to retrieve the avatar info, instead of requiring this information to be added directly within the title format.

"stream" => [

            "title" => "John added a new listing to hotels",

            "actorId" => 299,

            "showUserName" => false,

            "showUserAvatar" => true

        ]

This would greatly simplify the integration with JReviews. Otherwise, it would require refactoring the entire code just to be able to adapt every single activity to the new format.

Actually, I may be able to do a dynamic replacement of {actor} with {user:299} for the app integration, but I still think it would be useful to be able to pass just the userId.

Also, what's the result of setting "showUserName" to true or false in the output?

Hi Alejandro, thank you for taking the time to optimize the add-on.

I would still need a way to be able to test the output outside a mobile environment.

Also, a few questions still left unanswered:

- Is it possible to pass HTML in the description, or does it need to be stripped first, or you do that on your end?
- And what about attachments? if someone uploads 4 photos, a couple of videos, can those be somehow included in the stream?
- What's the result of setting "showUserName" to true or false in the output?
- Will you consider making it possible to pass the userId of the actor in the stream object and use that to pull the avatar?

Hello,

It would be great if you could enable an endpoint or internal API call to retrieve the result of one of these activities.
- You can test the result in JSON format by accessing this URL: yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&rest=1&endpoint=stream&token=[token]. Replace [token] with your administrator token which can be found under column 'auth' in table #__social_users.

Is it possible to pass HTML in the description, or does it need to be stripped first, or you do that on your end?
- It is not possible to pass HTML because the app won't be able to display HTML format. It would be best if you can strip first.

And what about attachments? if someone uploads 4 photos, a couple of videos, can those be somehow included in the stream?
- For media attachment, this is not yet supported in 3rd party stream item. The current implementation only to display a content with a webview link. This is an example usage of this api for Discussion in Group. https://take.ms/OiV4U

What's the result of setting "showUserName" to true or false in the output?
- It is actually dependance on your stream title. For example, your original stream title is "Admin has added new JReview listing.", you may want to set the 'showUserName' to false. Because the title already has name displayed. This is example if you have the 'showUserName' set to true: https://take.ms/Qp4GD

Will you consider making it possible to pass the userId of the actor in the stream object and use that to pull the avatar?
- The main objective we include the {user:999} in the title is because in the app, we could regex to replace the actor without messing with its placement in the title.

Hope this helps.

Thank you, that's very helpful indeed. With regards to the {user:999} thing in the title, I understand that, but since you have the option to disable the username, if the username is already in the title, it would be useful to offer the option to include the userId in the stream object so you can retrieve the right avatar.

Hello,

it would be useful to offer the option to include the userId in the stream object so you can retrieve the right avatar.
- Thanks for the input. we will see what we can do to improve this API.

Hi Nik,

To get the JSON response to appear I had to:

1. Install the EasySocial REST plugin.
2. Manually add a token to the social_users.auth column because it's empty on my dev site.
3. Manually set the social_apps.webview column to 1 for my app, because even though I changed it in the xml file, the app was already installed and doesn't pick up the change.

After that the only activities showing are related to badges. I manually removed all those activities from the database, and then the response was empty.

The only way I can get an activity to show up is to pin it to the stream.

Is this expected or is there a way to display all the latest non-pinned activities?

@noobster

You can open a support request at jreviews.com and I can send you the initial changes so you can test them.

Hello,

Is this expected or is there a way to display all the latest non-pinned activities?
- It should not be the case. Can you send me the file so that I could see what would cause this.

Sure, the file looks like this:

<?php



defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die;



class SocialUserAppJreviews_stream extends SocialAppItem

{

    public function __construct($options = [])

    {

        ES::language()->loadApp('user' ,'jreviews_stream');



        parent::__construct($options);

    }



    public function onPrepareRestStream(SocialStreamItem &$item, $includePrivacy = true)

    {

        $item->webview = [

            "title" => "Title",

            "permalink" => "https://site.com",

            "description" => "Some description that should appear on the stream",

            "cover" => "https://stackideas.cachefly.net/templates/delta/images/team/stack-1.jpg",

            "autologin" => true,

            "stream" => [

                "title" => "{user:299} created new item in {group:1}",

                "showUserName" => false,

                "showUserAvatar" => true

            ]

        ];        

    }



    public function hasStreamFilter()

    {

        return false;

    }   

}

Regardless of that code. Nothing shows up unless I go to the regular stream and pin one of the activities. Then only that activity appears in the stream. I only have JReviews activities in my system after having deleted all the badge activities that were the only ones that showed up before.

Here's a bit more info. The JSON response showing the 1 pinned item, and nothing else:

https://www.screencast.com/t/Jp47AfOd

The entire contents of the social_stream db table

https://www.screencast.com/t/8mquvlktHy

And there's the social_stream_iteam table

https://www.screencast.com/t/DQd7nYJY

Hello Alejandro,

The codes seems fine. Is it possible for you to send us the Jreview app installer file? So that I could try to replicate the issue in my local and see what is causing it. You can send the file through email: nikfaris@stackideas.com

Hi Nik. Mark has a license and he can share the download and license if needed for troubleshooting. However, I am working with n00bster to get this installed on his dev site because it will be much easier if you can see the issue there.

So far I ran into the following issues on his dev site:

1. The "webview" column is missing from the social_apps table even though he is on the latest version and the REST plugin is installed.
2. The "auth" column is empty for all users in social_users

Again I had to manually fix these issues. Is this expected? Would be useful to enable webview manually for apps within EasySocial, and also view/generate tokens within user manager in EasySocial to get around this.

I'll let you know when it's ready so he can provide the login info.

@stackideas team
i added the login data in the first post!

Input from Alejandro:

1. REST Endpoint:
https://dev.climbing.plus/01//index.php?option=com_easysocial&rest=1&endpoint=stream&token=xyz

Doesn't show any JReviews activities, even though the last activity is a JReviews activity which I just created by adding a listing to favorites.

2. The only way a JReviews activity shows up in the JSON response is by pinning it. That is why you see this activity there:
2021-06-09_12-56-44.jpeg

3. I added some debug code when the "onPrepareRestStream" method runs to make sure it is running. And you can see the output here with the file where it's running:
https://dev.climbing.plus/01//index.php?option=com_easysocial&rest=1&endpoint=stream&token=xyz&testing=1

Stackideas can check:
a. Why the 'webview' key is misssing from the pinned activity output. This works on my dev site, but not on yours.
b. Why JReviews activities don't show up at all unless pinned.

Regards,
Alejandro

Hi guys,

First of all, the site is using an outdated Rest API plugin: https://take.ms/FqyvP . I have updated the plugin to the latest.

About the missing Jreviews stream items, I am manage to find the cause of the issue and have added a fix in this file: ../plugins/system/easysocialrest/easysocialrest.php on line 187. The issue is basically caused by incorrect stream context type.

To explain the issue, we take one stream item as example: https://take.ms/FMwHvs which has the id of 10419. If you guys see in the #__social_stream table, ID:10419 has the context_type of jreviews_listing. The way the API gets the 3rd party stream items for mobile app is by scanning through #__social_apps that the webview column is equal to 1: https://take.ms/UUD5w and use that element column to define the context_type. Since the element for that record is jreviews_stream, the query used to get the stream has fail to include that particular jreview item: https://take.ms/Rgld4

Hi Nick

Thanks for looking into it and finding the issue. Can you think of a way to support the different context names that doesn't involve hardcoding them in your official rest plugin. The ones below are just some of them, but there's more:

// Fix for missing jreviews listing stream items

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_listing';

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_review';

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_attachment';

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_audio';

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_photo';

$apps->user[] = 'jreviews_video';

The non-rest stream allows more custom processing of the items so I didn't think they wouldn't be supported here. JReviews has been using this approach for many years now.

Maybe a list of context_types could be added to the app XML file to make it easy for ES to include those in the array?

Or (this is my least favorite option because I prefer having less plugins for minor things), you can include a trigger here:

/plugins/system/easysocialrest/easysocialrest.php, at the end of the "getSupportedApp" method:

\Joomla\CMS\Factory::getApplication('site')->triggerEvent('onAfterGetEasySocialRestSupportedApps', [& $apps]);



return $apps;

And then it's easy for any 3rd party to register additional rest context types using a plugin:

    public function onAfterGetEasySocialRestSupportedApps(& $apps)

    {

        $apps->user = array_merge($apps->user, [

            'jreviews_listing',

            'jreviews_review',

            'jreviews_attachment',

            'jreviews_audio',

            'jreviews_photo',

            'jreviews_video',

        ]);

    }

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will bring this to developers and see what we can do about it.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will bring this to developers and see what we can do about it.

Nik, could you speak with your dev's about this suggestions?


Also, to test drive Alejandros optimizations i wanted to login with the free app. But that does not work, i get this error. Do i need for testing a active subscription for the nativ app?

Hello n00bster,

Nik, could you speak with your dev's about this suggestions?
- We have already implement this in our repository and will be included in the next release of EasySocial Mobile.

Do i need for testing a active subscription for the nativ app?
- May I know what domain you were using to login to the free app?

Nik, could you speak with your dev's about this suggestions?
- We have already implement this in our repository and will be included in the next release of EasySocial Mobile.

Perfect, thank you for your help on this topic.

Do i need for testing a active subscription for the nativ app?
- May I know what domain you were using to login to the free app?

I'm on my DEV website, have a look on the first post where i have added the login details.

Hello n00bster,

I am sorry, is it possible for you to create a new thread for your issue? It will be easier for us to keep track on each issue in the future.

Then please follow this support post:
https://stackideas.com/forums/login-in-with-the-public-app-at-my-dev-website-does-not-work

Thank you.