Question

I want to fetch the data from Facebook user table using wild cards. But, I guess current FQL is not supporting the wildcards, or I’m missing something.

Also, it gives an error for LIKE as well.

currently, I’m executing it as follow

SELECT uid, username,first_name,last_name FROM user WHERE first_name LIKE ‘%ab%’ order by first_name LIMIT 0,20;

I tried *, ?, _ etc.

Still, i couldn’t get it yet.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There’s a way to do something similar, but even then you can’t ask such a question from the api.

Here’s a “working” version of your query:

SELECT uid, username, first_name, last_name
FROM user
WHERE strpos(lower(first_name), 'ab') >= 0
ORDER BY first_name
LIMIT 0,20

The problem with this query is that it produces this error:

Your statement is not indexable. The WHERE clause must contain an
indexable column. Such columns are marked with * in the tables linked
from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql

You basically don’t have a way to ask for all users, just based on specific user(s), for example this works:

SELECT uid, username, first_name, last_name
FROM user
WHERE strpos(lower(first_name), 'ab') >= 0 AND uid IN ("user_id_1", "user_id_2", ...,"user_id_n")
ORDER BY first_name
LIMIT 0,20