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Simple GET request with Facebooks API

I am currently taking a course in app development and I am trying to use Facebooks API for GET requests on certain events. My goal is the get a JSON file containing all comments made on a certain event.
However some events return only a an "id" key with an id number such as this:
{
"id": "116445769058883"
}
That happends with this event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/116445769058883/
However other events such as (https://www.facebook.com/events/1964003870536124/) : returns only the latest comment for some reason.
I am experementing with facebook explore API:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
This is the following GET requests that I have been using in the explorer:
GET -> /v.10/facebook-id/?fields=comments
Any ideas? It's really tricky to understand the response since both events have the privacy set to OPEN.

Starting from v2.4 of the API, the API is now declarative which means you'll need to specify what fields you want the API to return.
For example, if you want first name and second name of the user, then you make a GET request to /me?fields=first_name,last_name else you will only get back the default fields which are id and name.
If you want to see what fields are available for a given endpoint, use metadata field. e.g. GET /me?metadata=true

How to Query search index on cloudant using java?

I am newbie for cloudant and trying to learn full text search on cloudant through tutorial video. I am successful in searching on the cloudant.com through http request ,Now I want that code to be in java as i am working on GWT framework with java. Till now , I am just able to create connection with cloudant.com by studying the particular github project GITHUBLINK
There its given for search like this
Search search = db.search("views101/animals");
SearchResult<Animal> rslt = search
.limit(10)
.includeDocs(true)
.counts(new String[] {"class","diet"})
.querySearchResult("l*", Animal.class);
My Questions:
1. what exactly is this Animal.class refer to?
2. If this not the way what are the steps for full text search on cloudant.
I have created the view and the search index manually on cloudant.com under a designdoc of a database.

Animal.class refers to the class that the documents found will be deserialised into, if you do not have a class to deserialise the data into, you should be able to a HashMap or similar class to access the data returned.

You can find the example source code for the Animal class in this location: https://github.com/cloudant/java-cloudant/blob/88202a1bd7b9b04d96c4b7b8498a1b8f7f99c9e5/src/test/java/com/cloudant/tests/Animal.java.
Like the previous answer indicated, you could also have the results returned as a generic JsonObject that provides access to the properties and values.

How to retrieve from Azure mobile services using android studio

I am new to Android and Windows Azure. I have successfully inserted data from Android application but how do I retrieve single data and post that data on a TextView?
The read function after the gettable class is also not working. What is the exact function use for it? I have followed these instructions but they did not work for me, also I do not understand the documentation.

Currently, I just can provide some tutorials about how to use query data from azure database. I recommend you can refer to this official document about how to use Azure Client Library using Java: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-android-how-to-use-client-library . You can focus on two part: “how to query data from a mobile service” and “how to bind data to the UI”.
At the same time, you can view this video from Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services/Android-Getting-Started-With-Data-Connecting-your-app-to-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services.
The sample code project of this tutorial, please go to the GitHub link https://github.com/Azure/mobile-services-samples/tree/master/GettingStartedWithData .
For the ‘getTable(Class )’ function is not working, please double check whether the class name is same as table name. If they are same, you can use it like below:
MobileServiceTable<ToDoItem> mToDoTable = mClient.getTable(ToDoItem.class);
If not, you can write you code like this:
MobileServiceTable<ToDoItem> mToDoTable = mClient.getTable("ToDoItemBackup", ToDoItem.class);
For further better support, please share more detail about your code snippet .

PHP how to consume SOAP web services?

I'm very new in using web services. Appreciate if anyone can help me on this.
In my PHP codes, I'm trying to use the SOAP web services from another server (JIRA, java). The JIRA SOAP API is shown here.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
I found that my codes have no problem to call the functions listed on that page. However, I don't know how to use the objects returned by the API calls.
My question are:
In my PHP codes, how can I use the methods in the Java class objects returned by SOAP API calls?
For example, the function $remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($a, $b) will return a RemoteIssue. Based on this (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), there are methods like getSummary, getKey, etc. How can I use these functions in my codes?
Based on some PHP examples I found from the internet, it seems that everyone is using something like this:
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$key = $remoteissue->key;
They are not using the object's methods.
Refer to this example, it seems that someone is able to do this in other languages. Can it be done in PHP too?
The problem I'm facing is that, I am trying to get the ID of an Attachment. However, it seems that we can't get the Attachment ID using this method: $attachmentid = $remoteattachment->id;. I am trying to use the $remoteattachment->getId() method.
In PHP codes, after we made a SOAP API call and received the returned objects, how do we know what data fields are available in that object?
For example,
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$summary = $remoteissue->summary;
How do we know ->summary is available in $remoteissue?
When i refer to this document (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), I don't see it mention any data fields in RemoteIssue. How do we know we can get key, summary, etc, from this object? How do we know it is ->summary, not ->getsummary? We need to use a web browser to open the WSDL URL?
Thanks.

This question is over one year old, but to share knowledge and provide an answer to people who have this same question and found this page, here are my findings.
The document mentioned in the question is an overview of the JiraSoapService interface. This is a good reference for what functions can be called with which arguments and what they return.
If you use Java for your Jira SoapClient the returned objects are implemented, but if you use PHP, the returned objects aren't of the type stated in this documentation and do not have any of the methods mentioned. The returned objects are instances of the internal PHP class stdClass, which is a placeholder for undefined objects. The best way to know what is returned is to use var_dump() on the objects returned from the SoapCalls.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "PROJ-1");
var_dump($remoteissue);
/* -- You will get something like this ---
object(stdClass)#2 (21) {
["id"]=> string(3) "100"
["affectsVersions"]=> array(0) { }
["assignee"]=> string(4) "user"
...
["created"]=> string(24) "2012-12-13T09:27:49.934Z"
...
["description"]=> string(17) "issue description"
....
["key"]=> string(6) "PROJ-1"
["priority"]=> string(1) "3"
["project"]=> string(4) "PROJ"
["reporter"]=> string(4) "user"
["resolution"]=> NULL
["status"]=> string(1) "1"
["summary"]=> string(15) "Project issue 1"
["type"]=> string(1) "3"
["updated"]=> string(24) "2013-01-21T16:11:43.073Z"
["votes"]=> int(0)
}
*/
// You can access data like this:
$jiraKey = $remoteissue->key;
$jiraProject = $remoteissue->project;

The document you referred to in #2 is to a Java implementation and really doesn't give you any help with PHP. If they do not publish a public API for their service (which would be unusual), then using the WSDL as a reference will let you know what objects and methods are accepted by the service and you can plan your method calls accordingly.
The technique you used to call getIssue(...) seems fine, although you should consider using try...catch in case of a SoapException.

I have used Jira SOAP in .NET project and IntelliSense hinted me what fields are available for returned object.
You can use something like VS.Php for Visual Studio or Php for Visual Studio if you are using Visual Studio.
Or you can choose one of the IDEs from here with support of IntelliSense.

$wnd.google.visualization is undefined

I'm currently building a SmartGWT-based web application (using the Portlet Layout). So I have several "Portlet", which basically extend GWT Window with different content. Now I want a Portlet to display Dygraphs. So I've created an RPC Service implementation which returns a JSON String (based on a DataTable object).
Since I cannot directly serialize a DataTable object I use
String json = JsonRenderer.renderDataTable(data, true, true).toString();
where "data" is of type DataTable.
Now this String gets correctly passed to the client side where I want to create the Dygraph. In this thread , someone suggested to use
public static native DataTable toDataTable(String json)
/-{ return new $wnd.google.visualization.DataTable(eval("(" + json + ")")); }-/;
If I use this in my GWT client code, i get an error saying
com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (TypeError): $wnd.google.visualization is undefined
Do i miss some "import" of the visualization API? Where do i have to instantiate it?
Or is there another way to get the JSON datastring into the Dygraph? I can't find any examples...
Thank you for any hint!

I assume you have included the visualization.jar and the visualization namespace in your module's XML
<inherits name="com.google.gwt.visualization.Visualization"/>
This will give you the Classes. You probably have done this otherwise you would have gotten a compiler error.
However you also have to include the actual visualization javascript file from the google servers (the visualization.jar is only a wrapper). This can be done in two different ways:
1.) Include it in the host page:
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("visualization", "1", {'packages' : ["corechart"] });
</script>
or
2.) Load it dynamically where you need it:
VisualizationUtils.loadVisualizationApi(onLoadCallback, MotionChart.PACKAGE);
see http://code.google.com/docreader/#p=gwt-google-apis&s=gwt-google-apis&t=VisualizationGettingStarted
Btw. I have forked the Dygraphs Project and changed the GWT wrapper to more like the other visualization wrappers. You can check it out here: https://github.com/timeu/dygraphs
Edit: I have a new GWT wrapper for dygraphs that uses the GWT 2.8's new JsInterop: https://github.com/timeu/dygraphs-gwt
Note: I changed some behaviour in dygraphs and added some features which weren't available in the upstream code.