Documentation for service_type in OnlineAccountClient is misleading

[Robert Schroll]

The documentation for the service_type argument in the OnlineAccountClient is, 'The type of service (E.g. "sharing").' But in examples of .service files, the service type is specified using the a reverse-domain-name-esque string. The documentation should be updated to reflect this usage.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

Could you be a bit more specific? You are right, the OnlineAccountClient doc says that the service type is a string such as "sharing". And in the generated doc, the example for a .service file shows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service id="com.ubuntu.scopes.youtube_youtube">
<type>sharing</type>
<icon>youtube</icon>
<name>YouTube</name>

So, that seems all in order. Exactly where are you seeing the .service example that is wrong?

[Robert Schroll (rschroll)]

I have no idea what I was looking at three months ago that had the error. But a quick googling turns up this page, https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/platform/guides/online-accounts-developer-guide/, which has the example service file:

<service>
  <type>ubuntu.com.developer.me.MyClick_MyApp</type>
  <provider>facebook</provider>
</service>

I can't find the example you're pointing out, but I'm probably looking in the wrong places.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

I was looking at https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/scopes/sdk-14.10/index/

See the "Example .service file" section.

The page you linked is indeed wrong, thanks for pointing that out. I'll reassign the bug.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

Please see comment #1; the correct example can be found in the unity-scopes-api doc.