(Swift 2) Get the Photos for a User

Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded.

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func chilkatTest() {
    // 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.
    var success: Bool = rest.Connect("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(oauth2)

    // Indicate that we only want the photos the user has personally uploaded.
    rest.AddQueryParam("type", value: "uploaded")

    // We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
    rest.AddQueryParam("limit", value: "5")

    // Gets the 1st page of photos. (Not the actual image data, but the information about each photo.)
    // See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos/ for more information.
    var responseJson: String? = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET", uriPath: "/v2.7/me/photos")
    if rest.LastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(rest.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    let json = CkoJsonObject()
    json.EmitCompact = false
    json.Load(responseJson)
    print("\(json.Emit())")

    // A sample JSON response is shown below.  
    // This is the code to parse the JSON response.

    let dtime = CkoDateTime()
    var bLocalTime: Bool = true

    var dt: CkoDtObj?
    var i: Int = 0
    var numItems: Int = json.SizeOfArray("data").intValue
    while i < numItems {
        json.I = i
        print("--- \(i)")
        var name: String? = json.StringOf("data[i].name")
        if json.LastMethodSuccess == true {
            print("name: \(name!)")
        }

        print("id: \(json.StringOf("data[i].id"))")

        // We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
        dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.StringOf("data[i].created_time"))
        dt = dtime.GetDtObj(bLocalTime)
        print("\(dt!.Month.intValue)/\(dt!.Day.intValue)/\(dt!.Year.intValue)  \(dt!.Hour.intValue):\(dt!.Minute.intValue)")
        dt = nil
        i = i + 1
    }

    // We can get the paging information as follows:
    print("URL for next page: \(json.StringOf("paging.next"))")
    print("before cursor: \(json.StringOf("paging.cursors.before"))")
    print("after cursor: \(json.StringOf("paging.cursors.after"))")

    // This is a sample JSON response:
    // { 
    //   "data": [
    //     {
    //       "created_time": "2016-09-29T20:46:18+0000",
    //       "name": "Ignore my posts -- I'm doing some testing for Facebook related programming...",
    //       "id": "10210199026347451"
    //     },
    //     { 
    //       "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
    //       "id": "10210091531240138"
    //     },
    //     { 
    //       "created_time": "2016-09-19T02:00:42+0000",
    //       "id": "10210091520620125"
    //     },
    //     { 
    //       "created_time": "2016-09-19T01:59:46+0000",
    //       "name": "I would've went for a swim had it not been for the sign",
    //       "id": "10210091522299917"
    //     },
    //     { 
    //       "created_time": "2016-09-12T00:37:35+0000",
    //       "id": "10210023316834798"
    //     }
    //   ],
    //   "paging": { 
    //     "cursors": { 
    //       "before": "MTAyMTAxOTkwMjYzNDc0NTEZD",
    //       "after": "MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
    //     },
    //     "next": "https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/v2.7\/10224048320139890\/photos?type=uploaded&limit=5&after=MTAyMTAwMjMzMTU4MzQ3OTgZD"
    //   }
    // }
    // 

}