[SHINDIG-1899] People-Service needs to handle relationships to other people

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.0-beta5
• Component/s: Java
• Labels: proposal
• Environment: n.a.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: René Peinl
• Created: 30/Jan/13 14:36
• Updated: 04/Feb/13 14:42

Description

Open Social 2.0 specifies the option to create relationships between people either one-way (e.g. user a follows user b) or two way (user a and b are colleagues or friends).
http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/2.0/Social-API-Server.xml#People-Service-CreateRelationship
The current implementation of Shindig does only support reading existing friends, but not creating new relationships.

We have already created a patch for this issue, but it only covers the Shindig API, not the back-end, since we are running a self-developed back-end based on neo4j.