Lua

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). Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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
local oauth2 = chilkat.OAuth2.new()
oauth2.access_token = "FACEBOOK-ACCESS-TOKEN"

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

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

-- GET /v2.7/me HTTP/1.1
-- Host: graph.facebook.com
local bAutoReconnect = true
local success = rest:connect("graph.facebook.com", 443, true, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access key)
rest:set_auth_oauth2(oauth2)

local responseJson = rest:full_request_no_body("GET", "/v2.7/me")
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(responseJson)

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