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Hi, In one of my Grails project, i needed to 'Like' any Facebook wall post using facebook API. I searched about it and found a way to achieve this using Facebook Graph API and thought it worth sharing. To achieve it, we should have a valid facebook access_token, which can be obtained using steps described here. After obtaining a...
Hi, In my recent grails project, i needed to post images to the albums for Facebook Profile/ Fan page/ Group using facebook API. I searched a lot and find a way to achieve this using Facebook Graph API. To post any content over facebook, we need to have facebook access_token which can be obtained using steps described here After...
In my recent grails project, i needed to integrate LinkedIn with the application using LinkedIn API. I searched a lot about it and find the Java wrapper of linkedIn to use it with my grails application and thought it worth sharing. LinkedIn uses OAuth2.0 protocol for authorization when our application tries to access the data. ...
Hi, In one of my Grails project, i needed to have Share feature on the messages/post published by our application on facebook wall. In Facebook, if the message/text published is simple text, then Share link appears on it, but if it contains any link/URL attached to it, then Facebook do not provides Share button on it. To...
Hi, In my recent grails project, i was working on creating Apps for Facebook Fan Page and needed to show data to the user in such a way so that if he/she has "Liked" the page, then the content would be different from the case when the user has not liked it. In simple words, if user is Fan of any Facebook Page, then the content of App...
In my recent grails project, I was working on mobile version of the application and needed to redirect users to the mobile version of our application, if they are accessing the application from any mobile device. I looked at various techniques/codes to detect the mobile device and redirect users to the specific URL. I encountered the...
Hi, In my current grails project, we are using Facebooks Apps for our application so that any user who wish to use that app, can attach it with his/her Facebook Fan Page manually by visiting the App Profile Page and then adding it to the Fan Page. Then the attached facebook app can fetch data from our project. But few days ago,...
In my current project, i needed to integrate Google+ in the application using server-side API. Google uses OAuth2.0 protocol for authorization when our application tries to access the data. All we require is an access token to fetch data from Google using REST calls which serves data in JSON format. I implemented it using Web Server...
Hi, In one of my recent grails project, i needed to set System property from command line while running the grails application. I looked for it and found a simple solution to do so and found it worth sharing. Suppose we want to set any property, say app.property="propertyValue", then the command to set the property in grails...