Question

I’m starting to use the Graph API to get my notifications, and in the REST interface, they had the object_id field. I used this to get the notification objects’ id to then query the Graph for more information.

The Graph API object does not include this information.

Example of what I want to do:

1. Get user’s notifications JSON object.
2. Grab single item
3. Identify if this item supports commenting/liking
4. Display comments and number of likes for that item
5. if user can comment or like item, display buttons for this

my process:

1. call me/notifications/?include_read=1
2. is pretty easy to do.
3. I can identify if the object refers to a group, event, random application, post, or photo using the URL. I know that posts, likes, photos and others support commenting/likes so I have a way of doing this, though it involves parsing the link attribute of the item
4. this is what I need help with. I can get the id of the object by parsing the link, but I don’t get the full object some times using this. For example, to post on a comment, you need to have USERID_COMMENTID and the link only has the COMMENTID in this form http://www.facebook.com/USERNICKNAME/posts/COMMENTID
5. I also need help with this. I guess some fb objects can’t been liked via the graph?

any help would be great!

Answer 1

The notification FQL table, which also replaced the REST notifications.get API, still has an object_id column. That’s the closest thing that exists to what you’re asking for. It doesn’t look like the Graph API call is documented to have the object_id field unfortunately.