PowerBuilder

Read a Single Facebook Post

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Demonstrates how to read the contents of a single Facebook post. A post is an individual entry in a profile's feed. The profile could be a user, page, app, or group. PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Oauth2
oleobject loo_Rest
string ls_PostId
oleobject loo_SbPath
string ls_ResponseJson
oleobject loo_Json
oleobject loo_Dtime
integer li_BLocalTime
oleobject loo_Dt

li_Success = 0

// 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
loo_Oauth2 = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Oauth2.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.OAuth2")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Oauth2
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Oauth2.AccessToken = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

loo_Rest = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Rest.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Rest")

// Connect to Facebook...
li_Success = loo_Rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,1,1)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Oauth2
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
loo_Rest.SetAuthOAuth2(loo_Oauth2)

// This example assumes a post id was already retrieved.
// For example, it could've been retrieved by reading the user's feed:
// See Parsing the Facebook User Feed for code showing how to parse the JSON feed content.

ls_PostId = "10224048320139890_10210156138515282"

loo_SbPath = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbPath.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

loo_SbPath.Append("/v2.7/")
loo_SbPath.Append(ls_PostId)

// Select the fields we want.
// This example will select almost all the possible fields.
// See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/post/
loo_Rest.AddQueryParam("fields","id,message,created_time,caption,description,from,link,name,object_id,picture,place,privacy,properties,shares,source,status_type,story,targeting,to,type,updated_time,with_tags")

ls_ResponseJson = loo_Rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",loo_SbPath.GetAsString())
if loo_Rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Oauth2
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_SbPath
    return
end if

loo_Json = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

loo_Json.EmitCompact = 0
loo_Json.Load(ls_ResponseJson)

// Show the JSON in human-readable format.
Write-Debug loo_Json.Emit()

// A sample JSON response is shown here.  
// { 
//   "id": "12345678901234567_12345678900000004",
//   "message": "Ignore my posts -- I'm doing some testing for Facebook related programming...",
//   "created_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000",
//   "from": { 
//     "name": "John Doe",
//     "id": "12345678901234567"
//   },
//   "link": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10210199026247451&set=a.1237223526054.2038240.1094202869&type=3",
//   "object_id": "10210139026347451",
//   "picture": "https:\/\/scontent.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14462791_10210199026647451_7830642117574407060_n.jpg?oh=a7f9ed10ce9cd81a82adeb541c60e2e2&oe=58ABB195",
//   "privacy": { 
//     "allow": "",
//     "deny": "",
//     "description": "Public",
//     "friends": "",
//     "value": "EVERYONE"
//   },
//   "status_type": "added_photos",
//   "type": "photo",
//   "updated_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000"
// }

// This is the code to parse some fields in the JSON response.
Write-Debug "type: " + loo_Json.StringOf("type")
Write-Debug "message: " + loo_Json.StringOf("message")
Write-Debug "id: " + loo_Json.StringOf("id")
Write-Debug "link: " + loo_Json.StringOf("link")
Write-Debug "privacy descripton: " + loo_Json.StringOf("privacy.description")

loo_Dtime = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Dtime.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")

li_BLocalTime = 1
loo_Dtime.SetFromTimestamp(loo_Json.StringOf("created_time"))
loo_Dt = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Dt.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.DtObj")

loo_Dtime.ToDtObj(li_BLocalTime,loo_Dt)

Write-Debug string(loo_Dt.Month) + "/" + string(loo_Dt.Day) + "/" + string(loo_Dt.Year) + "  " + string(loo_Dt.Hour) + ":" + string(loo_Dt.Minute)


destroy loo_Oauth2
destroy loo_Rest
destroy loo_SbPath
destroy loo_Json
destroy loo_Dtime
destroy loo_Dt