How to fetch group list from facebook using spring social facebook?
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27-10-2019 - |
Question
I have connected my app with facebook using spring social facebook api. I've tried to fetch all groups using following way
FacebookTemplate facebookTemplate = new FacebookTemplate();
List<Group> group = facebookTemplate.fetchConnections("me", "groups", Group.class);
But it generates the following error message
org.springframework.social.MissingAuthorizationException: Authorization is required for the operation, but the API binding was created without authorization.
org.springframework.social.facebook.api.impl.FacebookErrorHandler.handleFacebookError(FacebookErrorHandler.java:95)
org.springframework.social.facebook.api.impl.FacebookErrorHandler.handleError(FacebookErrorHandler.java:60)
org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.handleResponseError(RestTemplate.java:486)
org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:443)
org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:415)
org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.getForObject(RestTemplate.java:213)
org.springframework.social.facebook.api.impl.FacebookTemplate.fetchConnections(FacebookTemplate.java:180)
org.springframework.social.facebook.api.impl.FacebookTemplate.fetchConnections(FacebookTemplate.java:174)
com.horoppa.social.facebook.FacebookFeedController.postUpdate(FacebookFeedController.java:52)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
It may be required to create FacebookTemplate object using AccessToken for authorization.
FacebookTemplate facebookTemplate = new FacebookTemplate(AccessToken);
Please help me, how to get accessToken and how to fetch all groups.
Solution
It seems that you are using spring-social-showcase. So, you can fetch group list of current user by following way
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/facebook/group") public class FacebookGroupsController {
private final Facebook facebook;
@Inject
public FacebookGroupsController(Facebook facebook) {
this.facebook = facebook;
}
/*
* Fetch all group list
*/
@RequestMapping(value="/list", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String showGroup(Model model) {
List<Group> groupList = facebook.fetchConnections("me", "groups", Group.class);
model.addAttribute("group", groupList);
return "facebook/groupList";
}
}
You could also found that the been already created for facebook in SocialConfig.java
@Bean
@Scope(value="request", proxyMode=ScopedProxyMode.INTERFACES)
public Facebook facebook() {
Connection<Facebook> facebook = connectionRepository().findPrimaryConnection(Facebook.class);
return facebook != null ? facebook.getApi() : new FacebookTemplate();
}
OTHER TIPS
You can try below code to get all Groups from GroupOperations()
List<GroupMembership> listGroup=facebook.groupOperations().getMemberships();
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