[Facebooker-talk] Is Session.users weird or is it me?

[Alan Larkin]

You will kick yourself ...

Session#get_users returns an array of Facebooker::User. Facebooker::User#to_s 
just returns the id as a string. Try

p session.users(user_ids, fields).inspect

Alan.

Ethan Herdrick wrote:
> Here's my problem: I'm trying to use Facebooker::Session.users but it
> seems to be broken, or more likely, my use of it is broken.  What I'm
> seeing is that when I call it it just returns the user ids array I
> pass it.
> 
> (For the following code, assume this:
>   user_ids = [3201111, 556161111, 501411111, 687861111]
>   fields = [:uid, :first_name, :last_name, :name, :timezone,
> :birthday, :sex, :affiliations, :locale, :profile_url, :proxied_email]
>   fields_string = fields.join ","
> )
> 
>  with_users_method = session.users(user_ids, fields)
>  puts "with_users_method = " + with_users_method.join(" *** ")
> 
> Which gave me:
> with_users_method = 3201111 *** 556161111 *** 501411111 *** 687861111
> 
> Odd, eh?  So I looked at the source of Session.users and tried making
> some changes and it works now, kinda.  What I did was simply adapt
> that code by omiting the block that is passed to session.post, like
> so:
> 
>   with_getInfo_no_block =
> session.post("facebook.users.getInfo",:uids=>user_ids.join(","),:fields=>fields_string)
>   puts "with_getInfo_no_block = "  + with_getInfo_no_block.join(" *** ")
> 
> Which gives:
> with_getInfo_no_block = nameDaniel
> SmithaffiliationsnameDISQUStypeworkyear0statusnid504602nameUC
> Davistypecollegeyear0statusUndergradnid16777249nameVTbare,
> Inc.typeworkyear0statusnid50432nameSan Francisco,
> CAtyperegionyear0statusnid67108894timezoneuid3205241proxied_emailsexprofile_urlhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=32052birthdaylast_nameSmithlocaleen_USfirst_nameDaniel
> *** nameKendra JonesaffiliationsnameNew York,
> NYtyperegionyear0statusnid671086nameColumbiatypecollegeyear2003statusAlumnus/Alumnanid16777219timezone-5uid556167404proxied_emailsexfemaleprofile_urlhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5561birthdayAugust
> 25last_nameJoneslocaleen_USfirst_nameKendra *** nameNatalie
> HanesaffiliationsnameUniversity of
> Michigantypecollegeyear2001statusGrad Studentnid167058nameBrighton and
> Hovetyperegionyear0statusnid67914timezoneuid501410355proxied_emailsexprofile_urlhttp://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=5012222birthdaylast_nameHaneslocaleen_GBfirst_nameNatalie
> *** nameAllen EthanaffiliationsnameSpokane,
> WAtyperegionyear0statusnid67109timezoneuid687869280proxied_emailapps+55035481363.687869280.38074720380e9a5306b7e5c2910b070b at proxymail.facebook.comsexprofile_urlhttp://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=687861111birthdaylast_nameEthanlocaleen_USfirst_nameAllen
> 
> All the info I want is there, if a bit smashed together.  What am I
> doing wrong?
> 
> Lee Connell has mentioned that I should use an auth token.  What is
> this?  Is it related to this problem I'm having?  I have a live app
> doing offline API calls that seem to work fine without setting an auth
> token, btw.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Ethan Herdrick <herdrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, Lee!
>>
>> But Facebooker::Session doesn't have a populate method.  I've tried
>> Facebooker::Session.users, but it breaks, claiming my session key is
>> invalid.  Not sure what's going on there.
>>
>> -Ethan
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Lee Connell <lee.a.connell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> you get it through calling the method populate on your facebook session,
>>> passing it arguments of what fields you want, lilke :name, :last_name, :uid
>>> etc... then you access it through the user object, "session.user.name,
>>> session.user.last_name" I don't have the code i was working on in front of
>>> me but that should get you started.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Ethan Herdrick <herdrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Where is Facebooker's wrapper of the FB API Users.getInfo ?
>>>>
>>>> (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Users.getInfo)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
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