Thursday, April 5, 2012

check for extended permissions with new facebook javascript sdk


is there a way to check in my application (canvas) if the user has extended permission (for example "stream.publish")?



i only can find a solution for the old sdk.



thanks!


Source: Tips4all

5 comments:

  1. Update at the end of 2011:

    FB.api('/me/permissions', function (response) {
    console.log(response);
    } );


    console output:

    {
    data: [
    {
    create_note: 1,
    installed: 1,
    photo_upload: 1,
    publish_stream: 1,
    share_item: 1,
    status_update: 1,
    video_upload: 1,
    }
    ]
    }

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  2. this solution is deprecated at the end of 2011, please use the answer that is marked as accepted above

    found a solution myself

    function check_ext_perm(session,callback) {
    var query = FB.Data.query('select publish_stream,read_stream from permissions where uid={0}', session["uid"]);
    query.wait(function(rows) {
    if(rows[0].publish_stream == 1 && rows[0].read_stream == 1) {
    callback(true);
    } else {
    callback(false);
    }
    });
    };


    this will check for publish_streamand read_stream

    example use:

    check_ext_perm(response.session, function(isworking) {
    if(isworking) {
    // post something to wall
    } else {
    // ask for login
    }
    });

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  3. Generalized choise's function,

    function check_permissions (permissions, uid, cb) {
    FB.Data
    .query('select {0} from permissions where uid={1}', permissions, uid)
    .wait(function (res) {
    if (!res || res.length < 1) return cb(false);
    var row = res[0];
    var aperm = permissions.split(',');
    for (var i = 0; i < aperm.length; i++) {
    if (row[aperm[i]] != 1) return cb(false);
    }
    return cb(true);
    });
    }


    Calls the callback with true if the user has all of the permissions, otherwise calls the callback with false.

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  4. The responses here that use FB.Data.query are to be avoided as this point, as Facebook has deprecated FB.Data.query entirely. The FB.api(/me/permissions ...) solution seems best.

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  5. FB.ui({
    method: 'permissions.request',
    perms: 'user_website',
    display: 'popup'
    },function(response) {
    alert(response.toSource());
    if (response && response.perms) {
    alert('Permissions granted: '+response.perms);
    } else if (!response.perms){
    alert('User did not authorize permission(s).');
    }
    });

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