Facebook always reauthorizing on each app launch? - iphone

Question

I have recently added Facebook integration to my app, and everything works fine except when the user relaunches the app. Each time the app is restarted, Facebook has to go back through its authorization process. This involves switching out of the app to Safari/Facebook, then back to my app. How can I make Facebook save the info, or be able to get blanket permissions for my app so that I doesn't constantly reauthorize?
Here is my code from the applicationDidFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method:
facebook = [[Facebook alloc] initWithAppId:#"203604286395694" andDelegate:self];
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
if ([defaults objectForKey:#"FBAccessTokenKey"]
&& [defaults objectForKey:#"FBExpirationDateKey"]) {
facebook.accessToken = [defaults objectForKey:#"FBAccessTokenKey"];
facebook.expirationDate = [defaults objectForKey:#"FBExpirationDateKey"];
}
if (![facebook isSessionValid]) {
[facebook authorize:nil];
}
Relevant Facebook delegate methods:
- (void)fbDidLogin {
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[defaults setObject:[facebook accessToken] forKey:#"FBAccessTokenKey"];
[defaults setObject:[facebook expirationDate] forKey:#"FBExpirationDateKey"];
[defaults synchronize];
}
- (void) requestDialogButtonClicked {
NSMutableDictionary* params =
[NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
#"invites you to check out cool stuff", #"message",
#"Check this out", #"notification_text",
nil];
[facebook dialog:#"apprequests"
andParams:params
andDelegate:self];
}
- (void)dialogDidComplete:(FBDialog *)dialog {
NSLog(#"dialog completed successfully");
}

Answer 1

Are you calling Facebook authorize: somewhere? That's how the fbDidLogin will be triggered. Assuming you are, the behavior indicates that either the token or the date (or both) is nil, or that the date is past expiration (unlikely).
Log the values upon writing and reading the user defaults. My guess is that the authorize either wasn't called, or failed (due to app key or some other problem not shown in the code), leaving the fbDidLogin method uncalled or saving nil values.

Answer 2

That's because you are not asking for permissions when you authorize your app .. "offline_access" provide a long term access token so you will not need to get a new access token every time the user wants to use the Facebook .. so what you need to authorize your app like this
if (![facebook isSessionValid]) {
NSArray *permissions = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:
#"user_likes",
#"read_stream",
#"offline_access"
nil];
[facebook authorize:permissions];
[permissions release];
}
Edit :
Please check the following in your implementation :
1.you need to add the following functions in your application delegate(the Facebook object here is your instance value of FaceBook Class).
// Pre 4.2 support
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url
{
return [facebook handleOpenURL:url];
}
// For 4.2+ support
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url
sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation
{
return [facebook handleOpenURL:url];
}
2.In your info.plist add to URL types > URL Schemes > your Facebook app ID with fb prefix (finally your value will be like this for ex. fb313714***).