[Facebooker-talk] Retrieving an array of users given an array of uid's

[kevin lochner]

facebook_session.users(ids, fields)


On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> Let's say I have a list of 20 uids (call it "cool_friends").  These  
> are friends of the current user, and I'd like to retrieve User  
> objects for each friend (so that I can access first_name and  
> last_name).
>
> I know I could do something like:
> facebook_session.user.friends!(:uid, :first_name, :last_name)
>
> With that full friend list, I can iterate over it and match users to  
> the list of "cool_friends", but that seems cumbersome and pulls back  
> more users (all friends) than I need.
>
> Can I request an array of users based on a list of UIDs?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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