Publish to Facebook groups message + image sets the text as description

[kfredy]

Hi,
When you post to a Facebook group a new photo, the message is set as description and not as "message" but as "description". Users cannot see the text, only when clicking on the image.
fbType = fbClient.publish(postTo + "/photos", FacebookType.class, Parameter.with("message", attachmentMessage) ,Parameter.with("url", picture));

Thanks,
Fredy

[nbartels]

This information is for our documentation? Then I'll open a documentation issue ;)

[nbartels]

BTW, you can this behavior in the description of the group/photos endpoint.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/group/photos

Name	Description	Type
source	The photo, encoded as form data. Either this or url field is required, but both should not be used together.	multipart/form-data
url	The URL of a photo that is already uploaded to the internet. Either this or source is required, but both should not be used together.	String
message	The description of the photo, used as the accompanying status message in any feed story.	String

[kfredy]

Thank you for the reply.

Still through the Facebook UI i can publish an image to the group and set
the headline of the image. For example:
[image: Inline image 1]

Does this mean i cannot set it through the API. (i was able to make a
workaround by publish the photo with Parameter.with("published", "false").
then retrieve the image and post it back to the "feed". the only downside
is FB adds "xxx shared a photo" near the user name)

BTW, restFB works great when the publish is for a page (we can see the text
and the image)

Thanks again,
Fredy

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Norbert Bartels notifications@github.com
wrote:

BTW, you can this behavior in the description of the group/photos
endpoint.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/group/photos
Name Description Type
source The photo, encoded as form data. Either this or url field is
required, but both should not be used together. multipart/form-data
url The URL of a photo that is already uploaded to the internet. Either
this or source is required, but both should not be used together. String
message The description of the photo, used as the accompanying status
message in any feed story. String

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[nbartels]

Hi Fredy,

I just used to Graph API Explorer to push a image to groupid/photos including a message.
The image was fetched from an url and so I used the url and the message parameter.

In Facebook this looks like this:

I think this is just what you need. I'll try this with restfb this weekend and it should just work the same.
A integration test will be added afterwards.

[nbartels]

I added the integration test and the publishing of a photo with message works on RestFB just like in the Graph API Explorer. Please have a short look at the integration test. Perhaps you see a difference ...

[kfredy]

Thanks a lot, Now i see my message in the stream itself :-)

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I added the integration test and the publishing of a photo with message
works on RestFB just like in the Graph API Explorer. Please have a short
look at the integration test. Perhaps you see a difference ...

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