Hi. As you know,  people and app are friends (thank to MySpace :))

Well, when my app recieves a  VIEWER_FRIENDS list,

I would like to distingiush  apps and people.
In API requests each user's node has field userType. For people value is 'RegularUser'

Unfortunately, neither MySpace, nor OpenSocial namespaces declared a field 'userType'

  var viewerData = dataResponse.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER).getData();
  var viewerName = viewerData.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.NAME);
  alert(viewerData.getField('userType'));

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  How do I get that info field ?

 I get

<usertype>RegularUser</usertype>

<usertype>Band</usertype>

<usertype>Application</usertype>

 from the Flash API

Is it case sensitive as your example has a big T?

Valery Filin:

userType

Eddie 

Eddie, yes, i mention these fileds

As we can see, there are "userType": "RegularUser" and "userType": "Application". The JSON dump is below.

In JavaScript I tried both variants:

 var personFields = new Array(
      opensocial.Person.Field.ID,
    'userType',   
    'usertype'
  );

  var param = {};
  param[opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields.PROFILE_DETAILS] = personFields;
  var viewerFriendsReq = os.newFetchPeopleRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.Group.VIEWER_FRIENDS,param);
  dataReqObj.add(viewerFriendsReq);

  var viewerData = dataResponse.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER).getData();
  alert(viewerData.getField('usertype'));

RequestURI: http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/248545017/friends.json

{
    "count": 5,
    "friends": [
        {
            "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
            "image": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "largeimage": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "name": "ryan",
            "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/30756034",
            "userId": 30756034,
            "userType": "RegularUser",
            "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/30756034"
        },
        {
            "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
            "image": "http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01234/11/76/1234286711_s.jpg",
            "largeimage": "http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01234/11/76/1234286711_l.jpg",
            "name": "unterhund",
            "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/81368369",
            "userId": 81368369,
            "userType": "RegularUser",
            "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/underdogvsunderdog"
        },
        {
            "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
            "image": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "largeimage": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "name": "Disease",
            "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/343094351",
            "userId": 343094351,
            "userType": "Application",
            "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/diseasespace"
        },
        {
            "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
            "image": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "largeimage": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "name": "EntityTestApp",
            "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/343853774",
            "userId": 343853774,
            "userType": "Application",
            "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/343853774"
        },
        {
            "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
            "image": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "largeimage": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
            "name": "Diseaser",
            "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/343960053",
            "userId": 343960053,
            "userType": "Application",
            "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/343960053"
        }
    ],
    "next": null,
    "prev": null,
    "topFriends": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/248545017/friends?list=top",
    "user": {
        "__type": "User:#MySpace.Services.DataContracts",
        "image": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
        "largeimage": "http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/no_pic.gif",
        "name": "Valery Filin",
        "uri": "http://api.msappspace.com/v1/users/248545017",
        "userId": 248545017,
        "userType": "RegularUser",
        "webUri": "http://www.myspace.com/vfilin"
    }
}

Why is this problem still happening? We've had the userType field sent to the app for more than 3 weeks now, but we still cannot access this field programmatically! This should be a very high priority fix because it gives the applications a lot of useful information about friends and its not difficult to fix.

In particular, the MyOpenSpace.DataMapper_.prototype.mapFriends_ method needs to add the userType to the person object. That's all!

Ha, mainly because I couldn't figure out which function to add the code to until now :P

Seriously though, just didn't see the thread, I've made the change.

Chad:

I've made the change.

Yep, thereabouts. 

And is this how to access it (Copying the code from above)?

In Request method: 

 var personFields = new Array(
      opensocial.Person.Field.ID,
    'userType'
  );

  var param = {};
  param[opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields.PROFILE_DETAILS] = personFields;
  var viewerReq = os.newFetchPeopleRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.Group.VIEWER,param);
  dataReqObj.add(viewerReq);

In Callback method:

  var viewerData = dataResponse.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER).getData();
  alert(viewerData.getField('userType'));

 bump

 this thing does not work....

and i want to get the user type for the owner (or viewer) only and not owner's( or viewer's) friends

it does not work  ...

 Chad (or someone else from MDP), can you please provide us some pointers for this.