Spring Cookbook

Posting a Facebook status update

In this recipe, you'll learn how to post a status update on a Facebook user's Timeline from a Spring web application.

Getting ready

This recipe uses the code from the Connecting to Facebook recipe.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to post a status update on a Facebook Timeline:

1. In the FacebookController class, in the login() method, add publish_actions to the scope parameter:

     params.setScope("public_profile, publish_actions");

2. In the fb() method, in the if(facebook.isAuthorized()) block, use the Facebook object to post the status update:

   facebook.feedOperations().updateStatus("This was posted from a Spring web application.");