Hello James,
Thank you for posting your findings to the forum.
Indeed, newly-created Facebook Apps will be automatically bound to version 2.4 of the Facebook API. This means that the Identity object in user accounts in a Backend Services project would be populated with the Facebook id and name of the user account. However, the identity of the user is verified and the user account is successfully created in the backend project.
If a developer needs to retrieve further details which the app user has granted to the app (email, birthday, country), this can be achieved by accessing the Facebook Graph API directly with a GET HTTP call like this:
The Facebook plugin also has utility methods that can allow the developer to obtain a token on behalf of the user and with a certain scope and read user data from the Graph API.
Let me know if further questions arise.
Regards,
Anton Dobrev
Telerik
Thank you for posting your findings to the forum.
Indeed, newly-created Facebook Apps will be automatically bound to version 2.4 of the Facebook API. This means that the Identity object in user accounts in a Backend Services project would be populated with the Facebook id and name of the user account. However, the identity of the user is verified and the user account is successfully created in the backend project.
If a developer needs to retrieve further details which the app user has granted to the app (email, birthday, country), this can be achieved by accessing the Facebook Graph API directly with a GET HTTP call like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=<access-token-here>&fields=email, first_nameThe Facebook plugin also has utility methods that can allow the developer to obtain a token on behalf of the user and with a certain scope and read user data from the Graph API.
Let me know if further questions arise.
Regards,
Anton Dobrev
Telerik
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