Question

I have had this problem for some time now and I have seen others have it as well. It has to deal with posting your custom objects that you create in Open Graph to post with your application. I am having this problem primarily on all platforms, but right now let’s say I am using Android. If someone has accomplished this in C# or on IOS or even in PHP please post your answer.

An Example:

I have an object that posts a meal to Facebook. Let’s say its properties are the following.

mealName = "Lunch"
mealType = "Vegetarian"
mealLocation = "Somewheresville, OH"

Now I have another object in my Open Graph and it is called DailyFood. It has properties such as the following.

day = "12/01/2012"
meal = "MyCustomMeal" // This references a meal object

Now when I go to post that I try to do the following in Java.

//Build Meal
JSONObject mealData = new JSONObject();
mealData.put("mealName", "Lunch");
mealData.put("mealType", "Vegetarian");
mealData.put("mealLocation", "Somewheresville, OH");

Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString("day", "12/01/2012");
params.putString("meal", mealData.ToString());
AsyncFacebookRunner request = new AsyncFacebookRunner(facebook);

This is where I generate the following error code.

{"error":
{"message":"(#3503) is an invalid value for property 
\"meal\" with type \"Reference\"","type":"OAuthException","code":3503}}

Now I know that it says OAuthException but I am able to post feeds to Facebook with this app just fine. If anyone else has experienced this error on any platform and has found a solution please post it here.

Thanks!

Answer 1

So the answer to this question is that you actually need a website available for your app to be able to reference what its posting to Facebook. In the docs, I at least, wasn’t able to find out where this was noted.