Java

Get Current User Information

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Demonstrates how to retrieve information about the current Facebook user. This is the most basic thing to get working first (after obtaining an access token). Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.OAuth2;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Rest;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        // This example assumes we previously obtained an access token
        OAuth2 oauth2 = new OAuth2();
        oauth2.setAccessToken("FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN");

        Rest rest = new Rest();

        // Connect to Facebook and send the following GET request:

        // GET /v2.7/me HTTP/1.1
        // Host: graph.facebook.com
        boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
        String responseJson;
        try {
            rest.connect("graph.facebook.com", 443, true, bAutoReconnect);

            // Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
            rest.setAuthOAuth2(oauth2);

            responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET", "/v2.7/me");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(responseJson);

        // The responseJson looks like this:
        // {"name":"John Doe","id":"10111011320111110"}
    }
}