Accessing Facebook Social Failed, help please

[xhe]

I was using this tutorial to learn how to access social network:
http://www.emforge.net/web/akakunin/...-spring-social

Both Twitter and LinkedIn work link charm, thanks, but when I tried facebook, I was stuck and don't know how to solve.

In Status.jsp, It is said to use this code:
<form id="fb_signin" action="<c:url value="/connect/facebook" />" method="post">
<div class="formInfo">
</div>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<p><fb:login-button perms="email,publish_stream,offline_access" onlogin="$('#fb_signin').submit();" v="2" length="long">Connect to Facebook</fb:login-button></p>
</form>

But Where is <fb:login-button> tag? I can not find it. So I used this instead obtained from facebook:
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=b227323312f4fcb29337f87891811a0e&amp; xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:login-button perms="email,publish_stream,offline_access" onlogin="$('#fb_signin').submit();" v="2" length="long"></fb:login-button>

I don't know if this is right or not.

After I click the fb button, a popup come up, asking for authorization. AFter Allow, the popup closed, and the original form is submit.

I the controller,
@RequestMapping(value="/connect/facebook", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String connectAccountToFacebook(@FacebookAccessToken String accessToken,
@FacebookUserId String facebookUserId) {
System.out.println("come back from fb2 " + facebookUserId +" token is " + accessToken);
if (facebookUserId != null && accessToken != null) {
// store facebook information
String userName = getCurrentUser().getName();
userService.updateFacebookAuthentication(userName, accessToken, facebookUserId);
}
return "redirect:/status";
}

I did not get any facebookuserid or accessToken.

In the applicationContext.xml, I already added this one;

<!-- Initialize Facebook Argument Resolver -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotat ion.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
<property name="customArgumentResolver" ref="facebookWebArgResolver"/>
</bean>

<bean id="facebookWebArgResolver" class="org.springframework.social.facebook.Faceboo kWebArgumentResolver">
<constructor-arg name="apiKey" value="${facebook.appId}"/>
</bean>


Can anyone tell me why the fbId and accessToken has not been retrieved?

Thanks

[habuma]

But Where is <fb:login-button> tag? I can not find it.

It's part of Facebook's XFBML tag library. XFBML is a JavaScript-parsed tag library, not a JSP tag library.

So I used this instead obtained from facebook:
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=b227323312f4fcb29337f87891811a0e&amp; xfbml=1"></script>

That's one way of getting it, but I've not seen it done by passing in the appId as part of the URl before...not sure if that will work or not. (And it's hard to tell from Facebook's documentation, because they still have some old information in there.) Instead, I recommend using Spring Social's Facebook JSP tag library.

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/spring-social/facebook/tags" prefix="facebook" %>
...
<facebook:init /> <!-- should be near bottom of page -->

I recommend that you have a look at the Greenhouse example, specifically the facebookConnect.jsp page to see how we use the Facebook JSP tag library to setup the Facebook JS-parsed tags.

Can anyone tell me why the fbId and accessToken has not been retrieved?

On the surface, it looks like you've done everything else correctly. But I'd be curious to know whether or not the FacebookWebArgumentResolver is ever called. If it is, then it means that the argument resolver can't find what it needs in the cookie that's being written (or the cookie isn't being written) upon authorization...probably because the Facebook JS library isn't being initialized correctly.

Another thing to look for: After authorization (after you click "Allow"), do you have any cookies for your domain whose name starts with "fb_" and is followed by your application's API key? That cookie is where FacebookWebArgumentResolver goes to find the user ID and access token. If it's not there, then FacebookWebArgumentResolver isn't going to be able to resolve them--and it's a sign that the Facebook JS library isn't being initialized correctly.

[kh2ouija]

Same problem here, following the same tutorial. I extended WebArgumentResolver and placed breakpoints in the overridden constructor and resolveArgument method. The constructor gets called with the correct api key, but the facebook callback goes straight to the controller method without calling WebArgumentResolver.resolveArgument. Therefore, both accessToken and userId are null. The fbs_<apikey> cookie is there. So the problem is with the AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter not calling the WebArgumentResolver. No idea why, until I find out I will just check the cookie by hand in the controller.

[habuma]

Hmmm...what I don't see here is where you've either used <mvc:annotation-driven> or have declared a DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping bean along with the AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter bean. Could that be what's missing?

[habuma]

To be more precise, if you are using <mvc:annotation-driven>, you must also include a BeanPostProcessor bean that registers the argument resolver with the AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter bean. Optionally, you could *not* use <mvc:annotation-driven> and instead manually register your own DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping and AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter beans, injecting the argument resolver into AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter's customArgumentResolver property (or customArgumentResolvers if you have multiple argument resolvers to register).

[sivaprasadreddy.k]

Hi,
I am also facing the same problem. After successful logon into FaceBook the popup is closing but the values for facebookUserId and facebookAccessToken are null s.

I have this configuration in applicationContext.xml:

<context:component-scan base-package="net.emforge.updatestatus">
			<context:exclude-filter expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller" type="annotation"/>
        </context:component-scan>
................
................
................
<!-- Initialize Facebook Argument Resolver -->
	   	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
   			<property name="customArgumentResolver" ref="facebookWebArgResolver"/>
		</bean>
		
		<bean id="facebookWebArgResolver" class="org.springframework.social.facebook.FacebookWebArgumentResolver">
			<constructor-arg name="apiKey" value="${facebook.appId}"/>
		</bean>

Please help on this.

[vossgeraldo]

Any update on this issue?

[Keith Donald]

Here is an example of a BeanPostProcessor that registers custom WebArgumentResolvers, including the Facebook one:

http://git.springsource.org/greenhou...Processor.java

This is from the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/greenhouse">Greenhouse</a> reference application. I would recommend this approach as it allows you to continue using mvc:annotation-driven which sets up a lot of useful stuff for you.

In Spring 3.1 the mvc:annotation-driven element will have a mvc:web-argument-resolvers sub-element that will make this a lot more obvious.

Keith

[rajeevbhutani001]

Here is an example of a BeanPostProcessor that registers custom WebArgumentResolvers, including the Facebook one:

http://git.springsource.org/greenhou...Processor.java

This is from the <a href="http://www.springsource.org/greenhouse">Greenhouse</a> reference application. I would recommend this approach as it allows you to continue using mvc:annotation-driven which sets up a lot of useful stuff for you.

In Spring 3.1 the mvc:annotation-driven element will have a mvc:web-argument-resolvers sub-element that will make this a lot more obvious.

Keith

Really nice posting.......
Thanks for sharing this.