Posting a link to Facebook

In this recipe, you'll learn how to post a link 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 link on a Facebook user's 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, create a FacebookLink object with the link URL, title, caption, and description:
    FacebookLink link = new FacebookLink("http://jeromejaglale.com/", "Spring is easy with Spring Cookbook", "Spring Cookbook", "The recipes are understandable and actually work."); ...

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