iOS how to publish action on custom object Graph Api - Facebook

Question

I need to publish action

I got success in publishing 'liking the link' from graph API. e.g 'abc likes www.abc.com'

now I am stuck at 'liking custom object' e.g 'abc likes toy1' and also to get total number of likes.

This is sample code which is not working

       NSDictionary *properties = @{
                                     @"og:type": @"toy",
                                     @"og:title": @"toy1",
                                     @"og:description": @"This is a sample course."};    
       FBSDKShareOpenGraphObject *object = [FBSDKShareOpenGraphObject objectWithProperties:properties];
        FBSDKShareOpenGraphAction *action = [[FBSDKShareOpenGraphAction alloc] init];
        action.actionType = @"og.likes";
        [action setObject:object forKey:@"toy"];
        FBSDKShareOpenGraphContent *content = [[FBSDKShareOpenGraphContent alloc] init];
        content.action = action;
        content.previewPropertyName = @"toy";
        FBSDKShareAPI *shareAPI = [[FBSDKShareAPI alloc] init];
        // optionally set the delegate
         shareAPI.delegate = self;
        shareAPI.shareContent = content;
        [shareAPI share];

Edit : My code is working by changing

toy

to

appnamespace:toy

and

[action setObject:object forKey:@"toy"]; // to  [action setObject:object forKey:@"object"];

now I want to fetch total number of likes on this custom object

Chicle

Answer 1

A "og:type" of "toy" is not valid. It should either be a common OG type (like "fitness.course") or a custom one ("yourappnamespace:toy").

If you are simply liking a website or other URL, you can skip the OG object and just create the action like

FBSDKShareOpenGraphAction *action = [FBSDKShareOpenGraphAction actionWithType:@"og.likes"
                                                                    objectURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com"]
                                                                          key:@"og:object"];

(note that if you try to like the same thing twice it will give you an error).

You should make sure your delegate implements - (void)sharer:(id<FBSDKSharing>)sharer didFailWithError:(NSError *)error to receive error information.

You may also want to use the FBSDKLikeButton or FBSDKLikeControl instead.

Jackleg

Thank you Chris for answer, now its giving error like "value for toy is required" – Chicle

can you file a report to developers.facebook.com/bugs so we can get more information like your app id? – Jackleg