Java Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get the Photos for a User

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Demonstrates how to get the photos that the user has uploaded. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.DateTime;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.DtObj;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.JsonObject;
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 a previously obtained an access token
        OAuth2 oauth2 = new OAuth2();
        oauth2.setAccessToken("FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN");

        Rest rest = new Rest();

        // Connect to Facebook.
        String responseJson;
        try {
            rest.connect("graph.facebook.com", 443, true, true);

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

        JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
        json.setEmitCompact(false);
        json.load(responseJson);
        System.out.println(json.emit());

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

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

        DtObj dt = new DtObj();
        int i = 0;
        int numItems = json.sizeOfArray("data");
        while (i < numItems) {
            json.setI(i);
            System.out.println("--- " + i);
            String name = json.stringOf("data[i].name");
            if (name != null) {
                System.out.println("name: " + name);
            }

            System.out.println("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);

            System.out.println(dt.getMonth() + "/" + dt.getDay() + "/" + dt.getYear() + "  " + dt.getHour() + ":" + dt.getMinute());
            i = i + 1;
        }

        // We can get the paging information as follows:
        System.out.println("URL for next page: " + json.stringOf("paging.next"));
        System.out.println("before cursor: " + json.stringOf("paging.cursors.before"));
        System.out.println("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"
        //   }
        // }
        //
    }
}