Preferred way to do facebook integration

[Andrzej Skalski]

Hi,

I need to integrate one of my products with Facebook API. I need user registration/authentication, give user ability to like/publish on wall portions of content, and possibly allow him to invite other FB users to use this application. I feel like I googled through all resources, but they all seem to be a little outdated, and FB evolves quickly. Therefore I ask:

What is current, preferred way to achieve that? Should I use OAuth for authentication and facebook liftmodule for rest, or JS API or something else?

Are there any examples to look at?

Kindest Regards
Andrzej Skalski

[Arkadiusz Burdach]

Hi,

You can use http://dispatch.databinder.net/Dispatch.html as a async REST client. It uses json4s as databinding that can use lift-json in backend or its won native json4s backend.

I've used it for integration with Trello REST API, here is an example: https://github.com/arkadius/micro-burn/blob/master/src/main/scala/org/github/microburn/integration/trello/TrelloCardsProvider.scala

However facebook API is more comonly used than Trello so maybe will be better to use some higher-level sclala/java wrapper for thiers API.

Arek

[Matt Farmer]

It’s worth pointing out that Dispatch’s lift-json integration isn’t functional for 2.11 and is marginal otherwise. I’ve got an outstanding pull request on it to get it up to speed but it’s waiting for me to do some sbt magic on it so it builds nicely for them. Will try to get around to that today.

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[Diego Medina]

if it comes down to personal preference, I tend to use the finagle http client, http://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/Quickstart.html to make callls to any REST API  I like the explicit api they have, for an example using  finagle (with elastic search in this case), see https://gist.github.com/fmpwizard/4187645

and as you get a String from the client, you can call compactRender(body) to get a JValue from lift-json

Thanks

Diego

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