Frustrating Parse/Facebook Issue

Solar2D Lua Language
#1

I noticed this on the Code Exchange comments a while back and now it’s come back to haunt me.

I’m trying to get Users who log-in via Facebook to be added to my Parse.com database.

The problem lies with Facebook returning a UNIX timestamp for expiration_date and Parse.com seemingly needing this in a SimpleDateFormat yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS’Z’

I’ve tried to convert the timestamp with os.date("*t", expiration_date), JSON the table and cocatenate the various elements into a string - however after a couple of hours getting nowhere I’m struggling with the frustration.

Does anybody know of a better way?

#2

Always the case… solved it a few minutes after posting here. I think that’s why I always put a post - solution is never far behind :slight_smile:

In case anybody needs it - this really dirty hack seems to have done the job:

[lua]

local fbdate = os.date("*t", event.expiration)
print(json.encode(fbdate))
           

if fbdate.month < 10 then fbdate.month = “0”…fbdate.month end
           

local temp = fbdate.year…"-"…fbdate.month…"-"…fbdate.day…“T”…fbdate.hour…":"…fbdate.min…":"…fbdate.sec
print("temp: "…temp)
           
fbData.authData.facebook.expiration_date = temp

[/lua]

#3

Always the case… solved it a few minutes after posting here. I think that’s why I always put a post - solution is never far behind :slight_smile:

In case anybody needs it - this really dirty hack seems to have done the job:

[lua]

local fbdate = os.date("*t", event.expiration)
print(json.encode(fbdate))
           

if fbdate.month < 10 then fbdate.month = “0”…fbdate.month end
           

local temp = fbdate.year…"-"…fbdate.month…"-"…fbdate.day…“T”…fbdate.hour…":"…fbdate.min…":"…fbdate.sec
print("temp: "…temp)
           
fbData.authData.facebook.expiration_date = temp

[/lua]

#4

Question. 

I see how to create a parse account and I know how to connect that to my Corona App. 

I know how to integrate Facebook into the corona app. 

How do I connect the Facebook login to Parse?

Thx!

#5

Question. 

I see how to create a parse account and I know how to connect that to my Corona App. 

I know how to integrate Facebook into the corona app. 

How do I connect the Facebook login to Parse?

Thx!

#6

Hey mythinkhouse,

Did you ever figure this out.

Alberto

#7

This is a case of where string.format() is your friend.

local myDate = string.format("%04d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02s:%dZ",

           year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, tzoffset)

#8

I’ll be posting about how to do the facebook login connection probably tomorrow.  In the meantime have a look at this if you can http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/42191-a-parsecom-module-for-corona-sdk/

Cheers.

#9

I wrote up an article about linking the Corona Facebook user to Parse.  It does us the mod_parse Corona SDK Parse module, but you can extract the information and use it without the mod.

Managing Facebook Users

Hope it helps.  Cheers.

#10

Jedi,

You are awesome. Thank you very much. This is exactly what I needed.

Alberto

#11

@Alberto Let me know if you run into any issues.  And if it works, please share it.

Cheers.

#12

Hey mythinkhouse,

Did you ever figure this out.

Alberto

#13

This is a case of where string.format() is your friend.

local myDate = string.format("%04d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02s:%dZ",

           year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, tzoffset)

#14

I’ll be posting about how to do the facebook login connection probably tomorrow.  In the meantime have a look at this if you can http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/42191-a-parsecom-module-for-corona-sdk/

Cheers.

#15

I wrote up an article about linking the Corona Facebook user to Parse.  It does us the mod_parse Corona SDK Parse module, but you can extract the information and use it without the mod.

Managing Facebook Users

Hope it helps.  Cheers.

#16

Jedi,

You are awesome. Thank you very much. This is exactly what I needed.

Alberto

#17

@Alberto Let me know if you run into any issues.  And if it works, please share it.

Cheers.