Facebook - Cascades for BB 10 - BlackBerry Developer

All the invocation attributes related to the Facebook app require a Facebook account to be setup on the device. Here are the invocation attributes you use to share text with Facebook:

Attribute	Value
Target ID	`Facebook`
Action	`bb.action.SHARE`
MIME type	`text/plain`
URI	`data://`
Data	Text string to be shared

Here are the invocation attributes you use to share media (pictures and video) with Facebook:

Attribute	Value
Target ID	`Facebook`
Action	`bb.action.SHARE`
URI	`file:///path/to/content.png`
File extensions	`.gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .psd, .tiff, .tif, .3g2, .3gp, .3gpp, .asf, .avi, .dat, .flv, .m4v, .mkv, .mod, .mov, .mp4, .mpe, .mpeg4, .mpg, .nsv, .ogm, .ogv, .qt, .tod, .vob, .wmv`
MIME type	MIME type can specified in the following format: `image/gif`, `image/jpeg`, `video/mov`, `video/mpeg4`, etc.

Here are the invocation attributes you use to share a URL with Facebook:

Attribute	Value
Target ID	`Facebook`
Action	`bb.action.SHARE`
URI	`http://`, `https://`

Here are the invocation attributes you use to open a personal or a business Facebook profile page:

Attribute	Value
Target ID	`com.rim.bb.app.facebook`
Action	`bb.action.OPEN`

You must set the metadata of the request object to a QVariantMap that contains the following entries:

Entry	Description
`object_type`	Specifies the type of the profile (for example, `page` for a business profile or `user` for a personal profile.
`object_id`	Specifies the numeric ID of the Facebook profile page. The numeric ID can be found within the URL of the Facebook profile page (for example, `www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=328506290597521)`. Here's a useful link to identify the profile ID of a Facebook profile.

Entry

Description

object_type

Specifies the type of the profile (for example, page for a business profile or user for a personal profile.

object_id

Specifies the numeric ID of the Facebook profile page. The numeric ID can be found within the URL of the Facebook profile page (for example, www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=328506290597521).

Here's a useful link to identify the profile ID of a Facebook profile.

Here's an example that shows how you can open a business profile page:

QVariantMap payload;

payload["object_type"] = "page";
payload["object_id"] = "328506290597521";  // BlackBerry NA Facebook page

request.setMetadata(payload);