Ruby

Get Current User Information

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Demonstrates how to retrieve information about the current Facebook user. This is the most basic thing to get working first (after obtaining an access token). Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

# This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
oauth2 = Chilkat::CkOAuth2.new()
oauth2.put_AccessToken("FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN")

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

# Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:

# GET /v2.7/me HTTP/1.1
# Host: graph.facebook.com
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2)

responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print responseJson + "\n";

# The responseJson looks like this:
# {"name":"John Doe","id":"10111011320111110"}