Grails

Integrating LinkedIn with grails application

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. ...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Social Media
19-Mar-2012

Grails

Custom ‘Share’ button on Facebook wall post

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...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Social Media
16-Jan-2012

Grails

Way to check if user has “Liked” the Facebook Fan Page or Not

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...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Social Media
22-Dec-2011

Grails

Install Apps on Facebook Fan page using API

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,...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Social Media
18-Dec-2011

Grails

Integrating Google plus in grails application

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...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Social Media
06-Dec-2011