Here is the code from our breakout session that stores key value pairs in App Data;

    <script>
       
        var catBreeds = ["Persian","American Shorthair","Abysinian",
        "Egypian Mow","Manx"
        ];
       
        var container;
       
        function init()
        {
            container = opensocial.Container.get();
           
            var dataRequest = container.newDataRequest();
           
            var personRequestParams = {};
           
           
            var ownerRequest = dataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest(
                opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.OWNER
            );
           
            var viewerRequest = dataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest(
            opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER);
           
            var ownerFriendsRequest = dataRequest.newFetchPeopleRequest(
                opensocial.DataRequest.Group.OWNER_FRIENDS
            );
           
            dataRequest.add(ownerRequest,'ownerProfile');
            dataRequest.add(ownerFriendsRequest,'ownerFriends');
            dataRequest.add(viewerRequest,'viewerProfile');
           
            dataRequest.send(init_callback);
           
               
        }
       
        function init_callback(response)
        {
           
            if(response.hadError())
            {
                output("Ooops! Response error");
            }
            else
            {
                var ownerProfileResponse = response.get('ownerProfile');
               
                var ownerProfile = ownerProfileResponse.getData();
                var ownerFriends = response.get('ownerFriends').getData();
                var viewerProfile = response.get('viewerProfile').getData();
               
                output("Hello, " + ownerProfile.getField(
                    opensocial.Person.Field.NAME
                ));
               
                output("Here are your friends!");
               
                var request = container.newDataRequest();
                var i = 0;
               
                ownerFriends.each(
                function(thisFriend)
                {
                    output("This friend is..." + thisFriend.getField(
                    opensocial.Person.Field.NAME));
                   
                    var tempReq = container.newUpdatePersonAppDataRequest(
                   
                    opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER,
                   
                    thisFriend.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.NAME),
                   
                    "Egyptian Mow"
                    );
                   
                    request.add(tempReq,"Temp_" + i++);
               
                   
                }
                );
               
                request.send(mycallback);
               
            }
        }
       
        function mycallback(response)
        {
            var request = container.newDataRequest();
           
            var appDataRequest = request.newFetchPersonAppDataRequest(
            opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER,"");
           
            request.add(appDataRequest,'myappdata');
           
            request.send(mycallback2);
        }
       
        function mycallback2(response)
        {
            var appData = response.get('myappdata').getData();
           
            appData.each(function(thisAppData){
                var tempVariable = "";
            });
        }
       
        function output(message)
        {
            document.getElementById("output").innerHTML += "<br>"
            + message;
        }
       
       
        init();
       
    </script>
   
    <div id="output"></div>   
 

Hi Chris - please can you get someone to post an ActionScript version of setting app data?

I just want to let the user set their background color of a Flash App to match their site.

I ( + other guys on this forum)  have managed to read app data in AS but not been able to set any.

Thanks

Eddie 

Hi Eddie, I think in the short term you can't set data from Flash. Flash doesn't support PUT.

It is in theory possible to hack PUT using sockets to implement a custom httpclient. But I haven't tried it and it typically requires some crossdomain settings specifically to allow the socket (at least from what I can remember when I tried it with amazon s3).

The other way is to make a signed Flash makeRequest call to your server, validate the call, and then do the set from there..

If anyone wants to try hacking a httpclient I'd be up for helping. I tried it once with amazon s3, so I have some code to start from.

 Thanks for the reply Dave. In short I'm not that clever unfortuneatly. Eddie

I might be interested in hacking it, IF their is no rest api provided which makes no sense... So probably not.