Android™

Get the Photos for a User

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

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean 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
    CkOAuth2 oauth2 = new CkOAuth2();
    oauth2.put_AccessToken("FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN");

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to Facebook.
    success = rest.Connect("graph.facebook.com",443,true,true);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, 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","uploaded");

    // We could limit the number of photos by setting a limit.
    rest.AddQueryParam("limit","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.
    String responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/v2.7/me/photos");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.put_EmitCompact(false);
    json.Load(responseJson);
    Log.i(TAG, json.emit());

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

    CkDateTime dtime = new CkDateTime();
    boolean bLocalTime = true;

    CkDtObj dt = new CkDtObj();
    int i = 0;
    int numItems = json.SizeOfArray("data");
    while (i < numItems) {
        json.put_I(i);
        Log.i(TAG, "--- " + String.valueOf(i));
        String name = json.stringOf("data[i].name");
        if (json.get_LastMethodSuccess() == true) {
            Log.i(TAG, "name: " + name);
            }

        Log.i(TAG, "id: " + json.stringOf("data[i].id"));

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

        Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(dt.get_Month()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Day()) + "/" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Year())
             + "  " + String.valueOf(dt.get_Hour()) + ":" + String.valueOf(dt.get_Minute()));
        i = i + 1;
        }

    // We can get the paging information as follows:
    Log.i(TAG, "URL for next page: " + json.stringOf("paging.next"));
    Log.i(TAG, "before cursor: " + json.stringOf("paging.cursors.before"));
    Log.i(TAG, "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"
    //   }
    // }
    // 

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}