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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. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

// 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
loOauth2 = createobject("CkOAuth2")
loOauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

loRest = createobject("CkRest")

// Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:
llSuccess = loRest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,.T.,.T.)
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    release loOauth2
    release loRest
    return
endif

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
loRest.SetAuthOAuth2(loOauth2)

// Gets the 1st page in the user's feed.
lcResponseJson = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/feed")
if (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    release loOauth2
    release loRest
    return
endif

loJson = createobject("CkJsonObject")
loJson.EmitCompact = .F.
loJson.Load(lcResponseJson)

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

loNextUrl = createobject("CkUrl")

// Get the URL for the next page in the feed.
lcNextUrlStr = loJson.StringOf("paging.next")
do while loJson.LastMethodSuccess = .T.

    ? "Next page URL: " + lcNextUrlStr

    loNextUrl.ParseUrl(lcNextUrlStr)

    // 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.
    loRest.ClearAllQueryParams()
    loRest.AddQueryParams(loNextUrl.Query)

    lcResponseJson = loRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/feed")
    if (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> .T.) then
        ? loRest.LastErrorText
        release loOauth2
        release loRest
        release loJson
        release loNextUrl
        return
    endif

    loJson.Load(lcResponseJson)
    // See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.

    // Get the URL for the next page.
    lcNextUrlStr = loJson.StringOf("paging.next")
enddo

? "No more pages in the feed."


release loOauth2
release loRest
release loJson
release loNextUrl