ACAccount Facebook: An active access token must be used to query information about the current user

Question

I am using iOS 6 Social framework for accessing user's Facebook data. I am trying to get likes of the current user within my app using ACAccount and SLRequest. I have a valid Facebook account reference of type ACAccount named facebook, and I'm trying to get user's likes this way:

SLRequest *req = [SLRequest requestForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook requestMethod:SLRequestMethodGET URL:url parameters:nil];
req.account = facebook;
[req performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
     //my handler code.
}

where url is @"https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?fields=name"; In my handler, I'm getting this response:

{
error =     {
    code = 2500;
    message = "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user.";
    type = OAuthException;
};
}

Shouldn't access tokens be handled by the framework? I've found a similar post Querying Facebook user data through new iOS6 social framework but it doesn't make sense to hard-code an access token parameter into the URL, as logically the access token/login checking should be handled automatically by the framework. In all examples that I've seen around no one plays with an access token manually:

http://damir.me/posts/facebook-authentication-in-ios-6

iOS 6 Facebook posting procedure ends up with "remote_app_id does not match stored id" error etc.

I am using the iOS6-only approach with the built in Social framework, and I'm not using the Facebook SDK. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Can.

Chaperon

how did you solve this? – Kesha

@JoãoNunes to be honest I don't remember. probably I've ended up using the Facebook SDK. – Mohr

@CanPoyrazoğlu hm.. did the same after 2hours lol – Kesha

Answer 1

You need to keep a strong reference to the ACAccountStore that the account comes from. If the store gets deallocated, it looks like it causes this problem.

Phonemic

This is bit crazy but that was it. any problem if I have ACAccountStore as a property? After I set it as property, it worked perfectly. Thanks @Phonemic – Handiwork

Answer 2

Try running on an actual device instead of a simulator. This worked for me.

Pharmaceutical

Answer 3

Ensure that your bundle id is input into your Facebook app's configuration. You might have a different bundle id for your dev/debug build.

Homage