Question

This is extremely frustrating and facebook certainly doesn’t provide any GOOD example documentation so I am hoping someone can help me.

I am trying to SIMPLY make a call to the facebook graph api to pull the details of a facebook payment order #. Using the Graph API Explorer i am doing a call to /############ (the #### being the order number) and selecting the application from my app drop down list at the top to generate the app access token. What I get back is an error:

{
  "error": {
    "message": "(#15) This method must be called with an app access_token.",
    "type": "OAuthException",
    "code": 15
  }
}

When I dod an app access token lookup using the following call:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials

when I use the access token returned I get a different error:

{
   "error": {
      "message": "(#15) This method is not supported for native apps",
      "type": "OAuthException",
      "code": 15
   }
}

I have checked the app and it is set to Desktop/Native as it is a game. We take payments for the application so why I am not able to query the payments?

Answer 1

Adding as an answer to help anyone else that finds this question, if accessing an Order object in the Graph API is returning ‘false’, check the following:

1. The app is not set to ‘native/desktop’ (this setting is under advanced settings) – if so, the app access token is untrusted
2. The Order you’re trying to access is a real order, not one of the Payments Test Users in the app settings

The first case is relatively little known, but is because ‘native / desktop’ apps are assumed to have distributed the app secret in the binary.

The second is mentioned near the top of the Order object’s documentation