Unity Web API Documentation code snippets don't work

[mark johnson]

What I did:
Accessed the Web API documentation[1] on Ubuntu 12.04, with unity-webapps-preview installed, using both Chromium and Firefox
Clicked the "Try Executing this code now" link for each snippet in turn, from top to bottom

What I expected to happen:
The launcher Icon appears
A notification is displayed
An entry is added to the media menu
An entry is added to the HUD
An Entry is added to the messaging menu
A quicklist and indicators are added to the launcher icon

What happened instead:
The launcher icon appears
All subsequent links clicked appear to have no effect.
The following error is logged ot the console with each click: "ReferenceError: Unity is not defined"
In addition, clicking the first link (Unity.init) in Chromium caused the attached console output.

[1] http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.04/javascript/index.html

[mark johnson (mark.johnson)]

I've just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on another machine, and the problem still occurs.

[Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny)]

Same problem here.

Ubuntu 12.10, libunity-webapps0 2.4.1-0ubuntu3

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

there is a hidden web page I discovered that doesn't appear to be navigable to from the developer portal, but has working code on it
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/javascript/uwapi-ref.html

It does mean that you can't write a webapp and target 12.04 and 12.10 with it unless you wrap the webapps API with some compatibility layer because there are now two incompatible versions of the API with the same version number in the init call.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

maybe the changes have been implemented in 12.04 as well if it doesn't work there too now. I know they used to work at some point. It is actually a lot better situation if the 12.04 documentation doesn't work in 12.04 either and there is one consistent API for both versions of Ubuntu and we can write webapps just to the 12.10 API.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Webapps aren't supported in 12.04. 12.10 is the first release for which the API is supported. 12.04 was a tech preview.

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

Unity.Notification.showNotification("Attention", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");
that still does not work because this version of the API requires three parameters to Unity.Notification.showNotification
the documentation is now at:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-13.10/javascript/web-docs/
so it was working in 12.04, then the api changed in 12.10 but the docs were not fixed, then they were not updated for 13.04 and then they were not updated for 13.10 and now they are still wrong as 14.04 is about to come out :/
This is the hello world bit of the API, if that doesn't work nobody is going to get any further with it.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Yes, this is annoying, Thanks for bringing that up again. This needs to be cleaned for the App Showdown.

KyleN: can you help when reviewing updates to the dev. site with Michael
Alex for advice on how best to fix

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Mike, can you take a look at the dev portal side of this? thx

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

The pages don't exist any more.