What is the UsersConnectionRepository for in Spring Social Facebook?

Question

I'm following the directions here and elsewhere: https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-social/wiki/Quick-Start

Why do we need to specify a dataSource and UsersConnectionRepository to use Spring Social Facebook? What gets written to our database? Am I supposed to create special tables or modify my Users table?

Kubiak

Well it's 2018 and the docs still don't quite explain what to do with this. Especially since there is also a UserConnection table I do not understand. Is there a chance you can tell me if I need to consider anything in particular regarding that table and repository respectively? – Dogleg

Answer 1

Yep from the docs ~ For convenience is bootstrapping the schema from a running application, this schema definition is available in the spring-social-core module as a resource at the path /org/springframework/social/connect/jdbc/JdbcUsersConnectionRepository.sql.

From here http://static.springsource.org/spring-social/docs/1.0.x/reference/html/serviceprovider.html

You might want to take a look at the sample apps here

Arthro