Facebook request not getting correct permissions or something?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’m trying to upload photos to a Facebook group from my iPhone app. I have a photo in the resourcedirectory and the FB login command works fine:
facebook.login( fbAppID, fbListener, { “publish_stream” } )

I then try to post the photo and I get two errors.

The code is:

local attachment = {  
 message = "Photo test from the app",  
 source = { baseDir=system.ResourceDirectory, filename="proceed.jpg", type="image" }  
}   
facebook.request( "my\_group\_id/photos", "POST", attachment )

And the errors are:
#260: Modifying existing photos requires the extended permission photo_upload.

and

The operation couldn’t be completed. (facebookErrDomain error 10000)

The latter I believe just means I don’t have correct permissions, which is evident by the former. I have in my facebook.login command the same permission everyone lists of “publish_stream”. My understanding is that it should include “photo_upload”. But I’ve tried swapping those permissions to all kinds of values, including “photo_upload” alone and even empty permissions or completely unrelated permissions, and I keep getting the same two errors every time I rebuild and reload the app to my phone.

I can see that the access token I’m receiving is the same one I’ve been receiving from the start no matter what I change the permissions to. If I go to Facebook’s debug page for Access Tokens I always get this same list of scopes for this token…

create_note photo_upload publish_actions publish_stream share_item status_update video_upload

There’s photo_upload, clear as day.

On the actual Facebook App I’ve added “photo_upload” to the extended permissions there as well. That didn’t help.

The Facebook group itself is marked Secret, but I have permission to post photos and tested with my personal account, the same one I’m logged into on my phone, directly and had no problems.

I tried logging out of Facebook on the phone and logging back in. Still nothing. The interesting thing is that the app never asks me to accept new permissions even if I change them in the app’s code. You briefly see the FB page come up and then it just disappears every time but the first time I added this code.

Is there a way to kill this access token, or would that even help? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. [import]uid: 17341 topic_id: 34649 reply_id: 334649[/import]

#2

Try using “publish_actions” in your login listener, a lot of things seem to work differently after facebook got updated. [import]uid: 13560 topic_id: 34649 reply_id: 137718[/import]

#3

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it still wouldn’t work. Tonight, I tried instead to post to “me/photos” instead of my group and it worked fine. The group is currently set as Secret while I test the app, so even though I’m the admin of the secret group, it seems like it may not let you post to a group photos list unless it’s completely open. I’ll continue to post here if I discover more in case anyone else runs into this problem.

Edit: Just tried changing the group status from “Secret” to “Closed”. So people can find the group but they can’t see posts. This allowed my photo upload to work. Hope this helps someone else. [import]uid: 17341 topic_id: 34649 reply_id: 137829[/import]

#4

Try using “publish_actions” in your login listener, a lot of things seem to work differently after facebook got updated. [import]uid: 13560 topic_id: 34649 reply_id: 137718[/import]

#5

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it still wouldn’t work. Tonight, I tried instead to post to “me/photos” instead of my group and it worked fine. The group is currently set as Secret while I test the app, so even though I’m the admin of the secret group, it seems like it may not let you post to a group photos list unless it’s completely open. I’ll continue to post here if I discover more in case anyone else runs into this problem.

Edit: Just tried changing the group status from “Secret” to “Closed”. So people can find the group but they can’t see posts. This allowed my photo upload to work. Hope this helps someone else. [import]uid: 17341 topic_id: 34649 reply_id: 137829[/import]