Does the /me/friends Facebook open graph API call ever get paginated? - facebook-graph-api

I'm testing my app based on a friend list of about 350 people, and not seeing any pagination on /me/friends/.
What's unclear to me (by testing & documentation) is the following:
At how many friends do the graph.facebook.com/me/friends or graph.facebook.com/ID/friends open graph calls starts to paginate, if at all?

look at Graph API Explorer: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=me%2Ffriends and scroll to the very bottom - you will there something like:
"paging": {
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?format=json&limit=5000&offset=5000&__after_id=XXX"
}
which leads me to believe that default page size is 5000
you can set that limit explicitly if you want to: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=me%2Ffriends%26limit%3D1

Set the limit yourself using limit=5000 for max limit. I.e so /me/friends?limit=5000
With the JavaScript SDK, two fields are returned, data and paging. Just hit the nextPage URL, and on the next result, there will be no more paging variable/next variable, indicating that you've hit the end.

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if a variable calls a function are the results stored in the variable

def use_api_get_data():
url = ..
r = request.get(url, headers)
return json.loads(r.text)
def main()
pages = use_api_get_data()
for i in pages..
for x in pages [i]
Question:
are the results of use_api_get_data() stored in the variable of pages or merely a call to the api?
the 2 loops using i in pages and x in pages... every time pages is called is it trying going back to requesting the information through the api or are the results stored.
My problem is my script requires several loops. Every time it loops is it asking the api for information again or is it just reading the information downloaded and saved in the variable of "pages" ?
TLDR trying to reduce calls to api
First, from the way you call use_api_get_data(), it will call the api and return the response, which then saved in pages variable.
Second, your loop is only accessing the pages variables without calling the api repeatedly since use_api_geet_data() is not called in the loop, only the pages variable, which is already populated with the api response.

loopback operation hook: add filter to count api

I need to intercept my loopback queries before they query my Mongodb to add additional filters, for example, to limit the object to what the user has access to.
I can successfully update the query on access operation hook to add filters to the GET /Applications , where Applications is my object. However This fails to work for GET /Applications/count
The command runs with a 200, however it returns zero results, even though I'm adding the exact same filters. There most be something different about count that I'm missing. The ctx object looks have a ton of functions/objects in it. I'm only touching the query property, but there must be something else I need to do.
Any ideas? Thank you, Dan
Could you please share your access hook observer's implementation. I tried it on a sample app, and following access hook works as expected for /api/Books/count:
module.exports = function(Book) {
Book.observe('access', function logQuery(ctx, next) {
ctx.query.where.id = 2; // changing filter value for where
console.log('Accessing %s matching %j', ctx.Model.modelName, ctx.query.where);
next();
});
};
Verify that you're modifying query property of Context (see access hook).
Hope that helps.

OTRS Webservice as Requestor Test

I'm new to OTRS (3.2) and also new to PERL but I have been given the task of setting up OTRS so that it will make a call to our remote webservice so a record can be created on our end when a ticket is set as "Closed".
I set up various dynamic fields so the customer service rep can fill in additional data that will be passed into the webservice call along with ticket details.
I couldn't get the webservice call to trigger when the ticket was "Closed" but I did get it to trigger when the "priority" was changed so I'm just using that now to test the webservice.
I'm just using the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm files that were included with OTRS.
When I look at the Debugger for the Webserice, I can see that the calls were being made:
$VAR1 = {
'TicketID' => '6'
};
My webservice currently just has one method "create" which just returns true for testing.
however I get the following from the Test.pm
"Got no TicketNumber (2014-09-02 09:20:42, error)"
and the following from the TestSimple.pm
"Error in SOAP call: 404 Not Found at /TARGET/SHARE/var/otrs/Kernel/GenericInterface/Transport/HTTP/SOAP.pm line 578 (2014-09-02 09:20:43, error)
I've spent countless hours on Google but couldn't find anything on this. All I could find is code for the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm but nothing really helpful to help me create a custom invoker for my needs and configure the webservice in OTRS to get it to work.
Does anyone have any sample invokers that I can look at to see how to set it up?
Basically I need to pass the ticket information along with my custom dynamic fields to my webservice. From there I can create the record on my end and do whatever processing.
I'm not sure how to setup the Invoker to pass the necessary ticket fields and dynamic fields and how to make it call a specific method in my remote webservice.
I guess getting the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm to work is the first step then I can modify those for my needs. I have not used PERL at all so any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm also struggling with similar set of requirements too. I've also never programmed in PERL, but I can tell you at least that the "Got no TicketNumber" in the Test.pm is right from the PrepareRequest method, there you can see this block of code:
# we need a TicketNumber
if ( !IsStringWithData( $Param{Data}->{TicketNumber} ) ) {
return $Self->{DebuggerObject}->Error( Summary => 'Got no TicketNumber' );
}
You should change all references to TicketNumber to TicketID, or remove the validation whatsoever (also there is mapping to ReturnedData variable).
Invoking specific methods on your WS interface is quite simple (but poorly documented). The Invoker name that you specify in the "OTRS as requester" section of web service configuration corresponds to the WS method that will be called. So if you have WS interface with a method called "create" just name the Invoker "create" too.
As far as the gathering of dynamic field goes, can't help you on that one yet, sorry.
Cheers

Cannot get onSession Start to fire in Mura

I have a script :
<cfscript>
gf = createObject('component','com.general');
gf.checkIpBlocked();
</cfscript>
that I want to fire onSessionStart.
I added an onSessionStart to /siteID/includes/themes/myTheme/eventHandler.cfc. But the session start NEVER fires. I know there is something managing sessions because of I open the admin, login then close the browser, re-open it I am forced to login again.
If I set a session variable close the browser and and the session.testVar never goes away and seems to hold the initial value for a very long time.
I am not trying to manage mura users or anything I am just trying to set a session variable the first time in a "session". In a typical application.cfc this is easy.
Any insight is appreciated.
Unfortunately, that's a bug. However, one thing to keep in mind is that onSiteSessionStart is unreliable since it only fires when a siteID is defined within the request. For example, if you were to go to the admin and be asked to login your session will have started and there would have been no siteID.
For now I would try using onSiteRequestStart to param the variable instead.
function onSiteRequestStart($){
param name="session.ipChecked" default=false;
if(!session.ipChecked){
var gf = createObject('component','com.general');
gf.checkIpBlocked();
session.ipChecked=true;
}
}
In regard to our documentation we have three Mura 6 books available both printed and digital downloads from Lulu
And are also working to create a systematic way to post the contents of those books on our support site which we are hoping to complete by MuraCon on 9/30. So that the all of our documentation will stay update and in sync.
The Mura docs state that the application events are actually onGlobalSessionStart and/or onSiteSessionStart.
Application Events
onApplicationLoad onSiteSessionStart
onGlobalSessionStart onSiteSessionEnd
onSiteMissingTemplate onSiteError
onGlobalError onBeforeAutoUpdate
onAfterAutoUpdate onGlobalThreatDetect
Note that Events that begin with onGlobal are deļ¬ned on a per-Mura
instance basis.
Mura docs.

Fallback on geolocation

I'm having trouble with the most basic aspect of geolocation - no matter what I do, I don't seem to be able to get the fallback to trigger. Here's the code:
if (navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position){
var latitude = position.coords.latitude;
var longitude = position.coords.longitude;
var latNum = parseFloat(latitude);
var longNum = parseFloat(longitude);
This is immediately followed by a nested bunch of if...else if statements that trigger different functions based on the user's location within one of a number of defined areas and an else statement to catch the condition where the user is not in any of the defined locations. This part all works fine, including the 'else' condition at the end. Where it falls over is if the user's device does not have geolocation enabled, or the user denies access to location data when prompted.
The code supposed to capture this is simply:
} else {
function10();
}
I have tried this in FF, Safari and Chrome with the same results: if I disable location services or deny access when prompted, the final 'else' function does not trigger.
I've looked at countless examples of this sort of elegant failure on geolocation and can't see why it doesn't work.
I'd be truly grateful for any clues where I went wrong.
OK - problem solved! I'm not sure if I feel just silly or enlightened, but for the benefit of anyone else with the same problem, here's the solution:
if (navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position){
// Do something here if you get position data
},
function() {
// Do something else if you don't get any position data
}
);
}
Where i went wrong, I think, is that I needed to look for a failure of the function(position)rather than the absence of a geolocation enabled agent. The second function within the same if condition provides the action in the event of no position data being returned from the browser, no matter what the reason. The final 'else' statement in the original code (above) would only be triggered on a device with no geolocation capacity.
This all makes sense now, but I have to say the documentation on Google, and many of the tutorial sites was far from clear on this, with frequent references to my initial syntax covering the situation where geolocation capacity was not enabled (as distinct from not present).
Thanks to this answer on SO for pointing me in the right direction.