Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Welcome to the Graph
Chapter 3: Let Me In!
Chapter 4: Digging Deeper into the Graph
Chapter 5: Search Me
Chapter 6: Adding to the Graph
Chapter 7: FQL Matters
Chapter 8: Finishing Off
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• What's so great about Facebook?
• It's popular
• Numbers
• It's everywhere
• It's interesting to develop for
• Web hosts
• What's a web host?
• Why do you need one?
• How do you choose one?
• Useful software
• What about domain names?
• How much AS3 knowledge is required?
• The source code
• Powered by…
• Debugging
• Watch out for caching
• A final note…

• Chapter 2: Welcome to the Graph
• Accessing the Graph API through a Browser
• Time for action – loading a Page
• Accessing the Graph API through AS3
• Time for action – retrieving a Page's information in AS3
• Time for action – deserializing a JSON object
• Time for action – visualizing the info
• Understanding connections
• Time for action – finding connections in a browser
• Rendering Lists
• Time for action – rendering Lists of Posts
• Rendering connections
• Time for action – displaying a Graph Object's connections
• Introducing the Requestor

• Time for action – creating an HTTP Requestor
• Understanding Connections of Connections
• Time for action – loading photos from an album
• Putting it all together
• Time for action – traversing the Graph
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Let Me In!
• What can you see?
• Time for action – snooping through other people's accounts
• What's that got to do with the Graph API?
• Access tokens are proof of authorization
• User/Application authorization
• Time for action – registering an application with Facebook
• Application ID + logged-in user = access token
• Time for action – requesting an access token with the browser
• Registering a redirect URI with our application
• Using the Access Token
• Me, me, me
• Keeping secrets
• What did Facebook give us?

• Authenticating with AS3
• Time for action – Using an access token in our Graph visualizer
• That's cheating!

• Time for action – authenticating through the application
• A different approach

• Time for action – authenticating via JavaScript
• Creating a callback web page
• Receiving the access token
• What about users who haven't used the application before?

• Extended permissions
• Time for action – obtaining extended permissions
• Time for action – requesting extended permissions
• I want it all, and I want it now

• Using the Adobe ActionScript 3 SDK for Facebook platform
• Time for action –implementing the SDK
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Digging Deeper into the Graph
• Getting more results with paging
• Time for action – displaying the number of objects in a list
• Time for action – requesting more Objects
• Time for action – requesting more Objects at once
• Paging

• Time for action – obtaining data in pages
• Time for action – adding limit and offset to GraphRequest instances
• Time for action – requesting data based on date
• Time for action – adding since and until to GraphRequest instances
• Time for action – filtering by date using the UI
• We gon' partition like it's yo' birthday

• Time for action – using the ids parameter in a Graph URL
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Search Me
• Using the website's Search box
• Time for action – examining quick search results
• Time for action – Using the Full Search results
• Searching with a Graph URL
• Time for action – searching without authorization
• Time for action – searching while authorized
• Differences
• Restrictions
• Time for action – implementing a Search window in the
• Visualizer
• Time for action – searching via the SDK
• Time for action – searching your news feed
• Time for action – searching a friend's Wall Posts
• Time for action – searching feeds through the Visualizer
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Adding to the Graph
• Hello, Facebook!
• Time for action – posting to the user's feed
• Request methods
• What's a request method?
• Time for action – using the POST method
• Time for action – listening for errors
• Time for action – granting the required permission
• Time for action – posting via the SDK
• Going further with Wall Posts
• Time for action – publishing rich posts
• Posting to another Wall
• Time for action – posting to another Wall using the Visualizer
• Actions, privacy, and source
• Actions
• Time for action – literally
• Privacy

• Time for action – setting a Post's privacy settings
• Source

• Deleting Graph Objects
• Time for action – deleting a Post
• Time for action – deleting Posts using the Visualizer
• Publishing other kinds of Graph Object
• Comments
• Likes

• Deleting Likes
• Notes
• Events
• Event RSVPs
• Albums
• Photos
• Checkins

• What about...?
• Sending inbox messages
• Creating Pages, Groups, Applications, and Videos
• Changing biographical information
• Making Friends
• Inviting Friends to Events

• Summary

• Chapter 7: FQL Matters
• What is FQL?
• Understanding the FQL interface
• Models of data
• Representations of data
• Getting information
• Time for action – retrieving info from the Page table
• What about connections?
• Photos, Albums, and their Owners
• Primary keys
• Crow's feet
• Link tables
• Time for action – getting a user's friends' names with AS3
• Time for action – an easier way
• Time for action – getting it down to one API call
• The Graph as a layer
• Permissions
• Checking existing permissions
• Getting more information
• Restrictions
• Searches must use an indexable field
• Does this matter in practice?
• Advanced FQL
• Operators
• Comparison
• Logical
• Ordering
• Paging
• Extra functions
• Calling multiple queries at once
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Finishing Off
• Putting it online
• On Facebook
• IFrame
• Time for action – setting up an IFrame application
• Page tab

• Time for action – adding an application to a Page tab
• Off Facebook
• Your own website
• Flash game portals
• As a desktop AIR application

• Time for action – authorizing through AIR with HTTP
• Time for action – authorizing through AIR with the SDK
• As an AIR for Android Application

• Time for action – authorizing on Android
• Choosing your application's Facebook settings

• Getting your application out there
• Editing the application's profile page
• The Facebook Application Directory

• Watch out for these policies!
• What next?
• The Official AS3 Facebook SDK
• Other Facebook APIs
• JavaScript SDK
• Insights API
• Facebook Chat API
• Internationalization API
• Adobe Social service
• Related Technologies
• PHP
• Open Graph Protocol
• Real-Time Updates
• Brand new and coming soon
• Facebook Credits
• Test users
• The New Messages
• Facebook developer resources
• Official Facebook resources
• Other great websites
• Me, me, me

• Keeping up with the Zuckerbergs
• Dealing with change

• Summary

• Pop Quiz Answers
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7

• Index