Facebook Portlet v2.0-alpha-1

Written by Gary Weaver. See Facebook Portlet for information about this portlet.

License

See license.

Source

svn co https://source.jasig.org/sandbox/FacebookPortlet/tags/rel-2.0-alpha-1/

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The old one v1 portlet was doing a string ID -> Integer -> string conversion and Facebook IDs now exceed the maximum Integer and the API it used was old/deprecated. Updating to use a newer app id seemed to break it, so after seeing that the Facebook Connect API portlet that was in incubation was not stated to be working with pre-3.x versions of uPortal, we decided to rewrite one that did.

There are some current concerns about 2.The only thing I think could cause a problem perhaps in later versions of uPortal is the portlet.tld that is included. I wasn't sure if it was needed for the JSP compilation, but if it is, it probably could just be a maven dependency (w/"provided" scope) since most of those taglibs are in jars somewhere0-alpha-1 portlet, even though it works and is being used in production at Duke:

1. Div with id "fb-root" required for the Facebook javascript to work properly. But, perhaps we could change this, as I've not tried to modify it since we started using the javascript script tag injection we got from http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/graph-api-javascript-base-facebook-connect-tutorial/ .
2. portlet.tld is included in source currently, and I can't remember if that is needed for the JSP pre-compilation, but this could probably be easily fixed with a modification to pom.xml and removal from source.
3. There are likely some UI mods needed (default hover CSS style for rows could be included, etc.)
4. FQL queries for the feeds are touchy but they might need to be tweaked to try to provide a feed just like the normal (friends) news feed, if that is possible. Currently they provide newer news than what is displayed in either of my (friends) news feeds in Facebook.
5. Shows "Unknown" picture and user name for messages from likes that aren't friends (which is wrong, but I haven't looked into fixing yet).
6. Doesn't indicate when a post is directed to someone else.
7. There are a number of other types of types posts it could display a little better than it does.

Questions/Feedback

Please post all questions/feedback on the uportal-users list. If you are absolutely sure it is a bug in the portlet, please add a ticket in the Jira project listed on the main page for this portlet.

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