RESTful API

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