Posting a Message to the Facebook Wall

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Overview

Allows you to post messages in your Facebook's wall.

Use this method if you meet the following requirements:

You have a Facebook app.
You has registered your app with the Campaign Manager
You have granted permissions to the application to post messages in your Facebook's wall

URL

Parameters on the following URL are inside braces { }

{base_url}/rest/api/tools/postAppFacebook/{instanceId}/{deviceId}/{appName}/{publicKey}/{signature}

Parameter Name	Description
instanceId	An instance id is the workspace identification number, if you don't know yours please request it using our ticketing tool, you will need to provide your Mobile Engagement Campaign Manager's URL and your user login
device	The user's identifier. In this particular case will be the Facebook pseudonym or alias.
appName	Your Facebook App's name which will post your messages
content POST	A file that contains the content for your message. This is a text file that could contain HTML format.
publicKey	The public key to access this API. if you don't know yours please request it using our ticketing tool, you will need to provide your Mobile Engagement Campaign Manager's URL and your user login
signature	The unique SHA256 signature for this call, it's involve all input parameters. To learn about generating the correct signature please visit our Java Example

Response

The Response XML is divided in a static part and a dynamic one, we call it dynamic because it will vary depending on the method you invoke. Please read our Response XML Basics section if you want to learn more about the response parts.

<input>postAppFacebook</input>
<status>OK</status>
<description>Completed</description>
<result>
   <input>postAppFacebook</input>
   <status>OK</status>
   <description>Completed</description>
   <message>
      <deviceId>testapirestmmc</deviceId>
      <msgContent>content to post in Facebook App</msgContent>
      <appName>MessangiTest</appName>
      <platform>FACEBOOK</platform>
      <providerResponse>
         <successful>true</successful>
         <code>005 </code>
         <description>Successful transaction.</description>
      </providerResponse>
      <userAccessToken>CAAF9iv9BNDABAIeAes7uUVZCDekwiZBcIRiM3ZCLmiBCHhrFTuYSBOeIKiTmncSx3yPUjxpRTIKkDnu1TJ</userAccessToken>
      <userId>76298412913699031</userId>
   </message>
</result>

Result parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Possible Values
message.deviceId	The user's identifier	Text
message.msgContent	Message's content	Text
message.appName	Your Facebook App's name	Text
message.platform	Platform of the application	FACEBOOK
message.providerResponse.successful	true Indicates that the message was posted correctly	true false
message.providerResponse.code	This is the Facebook's error code from the Graph API if the process fails, useful to track issues if needed	Text
message.providerResponse.description	A human readable explanation	Text
message.userAccessToken	The Facebook App's User Access Token	Text
message.userId	The Facebook App's User Id.	Text