Swift

Iterate Pages in Feed

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Demonstrates how to read the next page in the user's Facebook feed, and iterates through all of the pages in the Facebook feed. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // This example assumes a previously obtained an access token
    let oauth2 = CkoOAuth2()!
    oauth2.accessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

    let rest = CkoRest()!

    // Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:
    success = rest.connect(hostname: "graph.facebook.com", port: 443, tls: true, autoReconnect: true)
    if success != true {
        print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    // Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
    rest.setAuthOAuth2(authProvider: oauth2)

    // Gets the 1st page in the user's feed.
    var responseJson: String? = rest.fullRequestNoBody(httpVerb: "GET", uriPath: "/v2.7/me/feed")
    if rest.lastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    let json = CkoJsonObject()!
    json.emitCompact = false
    json.load(json: responseJson)

    // 
    // See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.
    // 

    let nextUrl = CkoUrl()!

    // Get the URL for the next page in the feed.
    var nextUrlStr: String? = json.string(of: "paging.next")
    while json.lastMethodSuccess == true {

        print("Next page URL: \(nextUrlStr!)")

        nextUrl.parse(url: nextUrlStr)

        // Prepare for getting the next page in the feed.
        // We can continue using the same REST object.
        // If already connected, we'll continue using the existing connection.
        // Otherwise, a new connection will automatically be made if needed.
        rest.clearAllQueryParams()
        rest.addQueryParams(queryString: nextUrl.query)

        responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody(httpVerb: "GET", uriPath: "/v2.7/me/feed")
        if rest.lastMethodSuccess != true {
            print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
            return
        }

        json.load(json: responseJson)
        // See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.

        // Get the URL for the next page.
        nextUrlStr = json.string(of: "paging.next")
    }

    print("No more pages in the feed.")

}