Upload photos from camera source about angular-easyfb HOT 3 OPEN

Found a solution... would be nice if this functionally was included in your library. Here is a link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35845623/uploading-a-canvas-image-to-facebook-as-blob-of-multipart-form-data-type and it includes a working jsFiddle!

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Hi @Harvey-Mushman ,

Glad that you finally get the answer, it seems that Facebook sincerely don't want JS developers upload images directly to their APIs.

angular-easyfb tries to be only a wrapper around Facebook's JavaScript SDK, hence there's no plan on adding any additional functionality beyond the JS SDK. Appreciated for the advice!

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Thanks for responding. And yes, the post on Fiddler works in combination with your ezFB.

I just wonder if I’m are missing something in your reply… it is not the FB SDK that is functionality incomplete but the EZFB library that seems to be lacking a richer interface to communicate with Facebook.

If you consider the iOS or Android SDK’s they both accept bit streams directly from the smartphone that is posting to Facebook – right? Thinking about it differently, when was the last time you used your smartphone as a camera, stored the picture on a public domain and then back into your FB app on the phone and uploaded a photo. This is a lot of extra steps for the end user who may or may not have a public domain in the first place.

If you further inspect the Fiddler code (https://jsfiddle.net/ilyador/vyne7oh2/8/), you will notice the Facebook post is still using the FB SDK without any special tricks of gimmicks. The only difference is the way the data is packaged on the client side when the photo data comes from memory (HTML5 Canvas). The trick is to use the JavaScript new XMLHttpRequest() object on which you build the request that ultimately gets posted back. XMLHttpRequest allows Multipart posts which is the specification Facebook calls out in their documentation for posting “source” data.

In my opinion this should be a basic feature of any AngularJS library since it is supported by Facebook.

All the best, Harvey

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Hi @Harvey-Mushman https://github.com/Harvey-Mushman ,

Glad that you finally get the answer, it seems that Facebook sincerely don't want JS developers upload images directly to their APIs.

angular-easyfb tries to be only a wrapper around Facebook's JavaScript SDK, hence there's no plan on adding any additional functionality beyond the JS SDK. Appreciated for the advice!

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