Question

I have been digging Spring Social (1.0.2.RELEASE) for Facebook. I couldn’t find out how to send apprequest via spring social. I already have an application on facebook with keys and stuff. I can fetch friends etc. but cannot send apprequest to a particular facebook user. Would really appreciate.

Answer 1

The following example should do the trick – i.e. create an app access token and then create the request using a FacebookTemplate which has been initialised using the created app access token

// retrieve app access token
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
String result = restTemplate.getForObject("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<app_id>&client_secret=<app_secret>",  String.class);
String appAccessToken = result.replaceAll("access_token=", "");

// create the request       
FacebookTemplate appRequestTemplate = new FacebookTemplate(appAccessToken);
String userId = "1234567890";
MultiValueMap<String, Object> requestData = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object>();
requestData.set("message", "Sending a request through to you...");
String resultOfApprequest = appRequestTemplate.publish(userId, "apprequests", requestData);