Facebook apprequest deletes not working

Question

I'm fairly new to the Facebook API, so I did some research and came across the Stack Overflow post Cannot delete application invite in Facebook after acceptance

I thought it would work for me since I have the same issue. However, I have not made any progress with any variations of the suggested methods in the post above.

These are the two variations I've been trying:

A:

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FB.api('/'+request_id, 'DELETE', function(fb_response) {
    if (typeof callbackFunction == 'function') {
        callbackFunction(fb_response);
    }
});

B:

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FB.api("/", "POST", {
    access_token:"MY_APPLICATION_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    batch:[
        {
                "method":"DELETE",
                "name":request_id,
                //"omit_response_on_success": true,

        }
    ]
}, function(fb_response) {
    callbackFunction(fb_response);
});

I'm still getting this error message:

message:"(#2) Invalid parameter: Unknown error"

type:"OAuthException"

How do I fix this problem?

You should really be doing that as a server side call, otherwise you'd need to have your app's access token available to the user's browser which is a massive security issue for your app - it's also easier to debug if it's server side. — Igy, Sep 09 '11 at 17:54
well i've tried doing the graph api call manually through the browser to test it out as it would be done via PHP side through a curl call but i get the same error. ` https://graph.facebook.com/request_id?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN&method=DELETE ` this is what i assume the call does through graph api. — Thillypickle, Sep 09 '11 at 18:05
Yeah, as per my answer on the other question you linked that should be working Are you able to access the requests (i.e a `GET` request) OK? If not, there may be some other issue, because your app's access token should work for both — Igy, Sep 09 '11 at 18:10
My gets are fine with the access token and such i just did it a few mins ago. it's the DELETE that hasn't been working griefing me for the past few weeks. — Thillypickle, Sep 09 '11 at 18:15
not sure if this helps or not but i ran the delete thing through the Graph API Explorer and it worked fine on there. — Thillypickle, Sep 09 '11 at 18:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '12 at 02:36

These are two ways I am deleting requests through the js api:

Singular:

FB.api(request_id, 'DELETE', function(fb_response) {
    if (fb_response) {
        // Do something
    }
});

Batch:

FB.api("/", "POST", {
  batch:[
    {
            "method":"DELETE",
            "relative_url":request_id, 
    }
  ]
  }, function(fb_response) {
    if (fb_response){  
     // Do Something
    }
});

With the request_id being in the proper format of facebook request_id, underscore, facebook user_id.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 09 '12 at 19:19

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So it turns out the issue was my access_token. It was grabbing the user token instead of the app_token for some reason, and I decided, as suggested, to move the removable to the PHP side and all was dandy.

edited Jan 09 '12 at 19:19

Peter Mortensen

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answered Sep 16 '11 at 15:19

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