Nevertheless, despite all my skepticism (frustration perhaps too!), WAI project did move a bit further than before.
Above all, I learnt more about the intricacies of Facebook Graph API, and discovered that my best bet was to use FQL to obtain the information of each user's friends. Thanks to Bharath Santosh, another finding was Facebook's test console to try these queries.
But there seemed to be a problem with this platform because most of the queries fields came out as "null" values. After a bit of research, I found out that other people were having the same problem, and the conclusion is that this issue was a known bug of the test console.
At least, I wrote down and saved all the queries before I started testing them.
In addition, I started digging a bit more in depth and realized that perhaps my intentions to retrieve all friends of a user might need an "access token" for each of those friends....
In any case, like any other optimistic person, I was expecting to get my whole back-end project done in just a few hours... And that the "hackathon strength" was going to allow me to achieve it!! :) But the reality was different, like always, and so this represents the status of where I left.
For those who don't believe that either I attended, or that there even was a hackathon at all, please visit this album:
Courtesy of Mike Pinkowish, facebook representative, RPI grad.
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