get_connections fails to get friends

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

Python 2.7.3
facebook_sdk-0.3.2-py2.7.egg

graph.get_connections(profile["id"], "friends")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sdkref.py", line 31, in
friends = graph.get_connections(profile["id"], "friends")
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\lib\site-packages\facebook.py", line 111, in get_connections
return self.request(id + "/" + connection_name, args)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python27\lib\site-packages\facebook.py", line 275, in request
raise GraphAPIError(response)
facebook.GraphAPIError: Unsupported operation

[martey]

I can not replicate this issue. Does this consistently occur for you? Are you able to replicate it (using the same access token and application) on the Graph API Explorer?

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

I used the same access token used in the application
and the get query /?fields=friends

I get this error on the Graph API Explorer
{
"error": {
"message": "Unsupported operation",
"type": "FacebookApiException",
"code": 100
}
}
This is happening only for friends am able to view few of the other data like posts, feeds without any error.

[martey]

the get query /?fields=friends

As you can see on line 111, get_connections uses the query id/friends. You could also use /id?fields=friends, but you need to have the Facebook user ID as part of the URL.

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

sorry about that martey,
/userid?fields=friends was my input
i also tries by selecting from the node on the left pane from the connections section it also returned me the same Graph API Explorer error.

[martey]

Since the error is occurring with the Graph API Explorer as well, this is extremely unlikely to be an error with the library, so I am closing this issue.

You might want to try to create a test user (to see if there is something wrong with the user you are using) or creating a new application. Let me know if you need further assistance by contacting me directly and I will try and help you with further debugging.

[rajasimon]

sorry I'm having this problem now...

friends = graph.get_connections(id='me', connection_name='', fields="friends")

and the print of friends is

{'friends': {'data': [], 'summary': {'total_count': 427}}, 'id': '10154052898937398'}

[martey]

@rajasimon, there are a number of reasons why the list of friends might be empty that do not relate to bugs in this application. I would advise posting to the Google Group for more support: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pythonforfacebook