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Very nice! I might try to use it later today for a project I've had cooking for a while. What is the structure of the friends object after the dialog closes? Wh

by xauronx 14y ago

Very nice! I might try to use it later today for a project I've had cooking for a while. What is the structure of the friends object after the dialog closes? What information do we get about them?

icambron 14y ago
I need to document that better. Here's what's passed to the callback: [ { id: anFbId, name: "Some guy", picture: "a url" }, //other friends in the multi-selection case ] If there's other kinds of information you'd want, I'd love some feedback on that.
- xauronx 14y ago
  Does facebook expose their email address to you? I would like to use this to allow people to invite their friends to sign up for my service but I'm not sure how I would do that. I guess I could use facebook APIs to send them a message in lieu of email.
  - icambron 14y ago
    When you set up an FB application, it lets you specify what information you want the user to make available to you. When the user approves the app, the dialog specifies what info the app is asking for. I assume that "friends' email" is one of those options. Then FbFriends would be able to ask for that info. So to support this, I'd need to: 1. expose to you as the developer the ability to specify the list of attributes to request from FB (hardcoded right now). 2. just pass the object I get from FB straight to the callback instead of mucking with the object (makes some things, like the picture, a bit more complicated). 3. document how to set up the Facebook application to get the right permissions from the end-users. That all seems reasonable, and I'll take a crack at it later today when I'm done with my 9-5.
    - xauronx 14y ago
      That would be pretty awesome! Let me know how it goes or if I can give any input at all.
      - icambron 14y ago
        So I'm writing the feature that lets you specify what fields you want and will pass the resulting FB object directly back to you (edit: now done and in the trunk). However, you can't get the email addresses of friends. From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-permissions/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-p...: "Note: There is no way for apps to obtain email addresses for a user's friends."
        xauronx 14y ago
        Oh, well, that kind of makes sense but it's a bummer anyhow. I guess it would be pretty easy to send them an invite on facebook via wall post or message though.

by xauronx 14y ago

Very nice! I might try to use it later today for a project I've had cooking for a while. What is the structure of the friends object after the dialog closes? What information do we get about them?

icambron 14y ago

I need to document that better. Here's what's passed to the callback: [ { id: anFbId, name: "Some guy", picture: "a url" }, //other friends in the multi-selection case ] If there's other kinds of information you'd want, I'd love some feedback on that.

xauronx 14y ago
Does facebook expose their email address to you? I would like to use this to allow people to invite their friends to sign up for my service but I'm not sure how I would do that. I guess I could use facebook APIs to send them a message in lieu of email.
- icambron 14y ago
  When you set up an FB application, it lets you specify what information you want the user to make available to you. When the user approves the app, the dialog specifies what info the app is asking for. I assume that "friends' email" is one of those options. Then FbFriends would be able to ask for that info. So to support this, I'd need to: 1. expose to you as the developer the ability to specify the list of attributes to request from FB (hardcoded right now). 2. just pass the object I get from FB straight to the callback instead of mucking with the object (makes some things, like the picture, a bit more complicated). 3. document how to set up the Facebook application to get the right permissions from the end-users. That all seems reasonable, and I'll take a crack at it later today when I'm done with my 9-5.
  - xauronx 14y ago
    That would be pretty awesome! Let me know how it goes or if I can give any input at all.
    - icambron 14y ago
      So I'm writing the feature that lets you specify what fields you want and will pass the resulting FB object directly back to you (edit: now done and in the trunk). However, you can't get the email addresses of friends. From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-permissions/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-p...: "Note: There is no way for apps to obtain email addresses for a user's friends."
      - xauronx 14y ago
        Oh, well, that kind of makes sense but it's a bummer anyhow. I guess it would be pretty easy to send them an invite on facebook via wall post or message though.