Unicode C++

Get the Photos for a User

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Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded. Unicode C++

#include <CkOAuth2W.h>
#include <CkRestW.h>
#include <CkJsonObjectW.h>
#include <CkDateTimeW.h>
#include <CkDtObjW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = 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
    CkOAuth2W oauth2;
    oauth2.put_AccessToken(L"FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN");

    CkRestW rest;

    //  Connect to Facebook.
    success = rest.Connect(L"graph.facebook.com",443,true,true);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",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(L"type",L"uploaded");

    //  We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
    rest.AddQueryParam(L"limit",L"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.
    const wchar_t *responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody(L"GET",L"/v2.7/me/photos");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    CkJsonObjectW json;
    json.put_EmitCompact(false);
    json.Load(responseJson);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",json.emit());

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

    CkDateTimeW dtime;
    bool bLocalTime = true;

    CkDtObjW dt;
    int i = 0;
    int numItems = json.SizeOfArray(L"data");
    while (i < numItems) {
        json.put_I(i);
        wprintf(L"--- %d\n",i);
        const wchar_t *name = json.stringOf(L"data[i].name");
        if (json.get_LastMethodSuccess() == true) {
            wprintf(L"name: %s\n",name);
        }

        wprintf(L"id: %s\n",json.stringOf(L"data[i].id"));

        //  We can load the created_time into a CkDateTime...
        dtime.SetFromTimestamp(json.stringOf(L"data[i].created_time"));
        dtime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dt);

        wprintf(L"%d/%d/%d  %d:%d\n",dt.get_Month(),dt.get_Day(),dt.get_Year(),dt.get_Hour(),dt.get_Minute());
        i = i + 1;
    }

    //  We can get the paging information as follows:
    wprintf(L"URL for next page: %s\n",json.stringOf(L"paging.next"));
    wprintf(L"before cursor: %s\n",json.stringOf(L"paging.cursors.before"));
    wprintf(L"after cursor: %s\n",json.stringOf(L"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"
    //    }
    //  }
    //
    }