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.");

3. Use the Facebook object to post the link:

   facebook.feedOperations().postLink("This link was posted from a Spring web application.", link);

4. In your browser...