Facebooker talk - Feb 2009 - Retrieving an array of users given an array of uid''s

Hi there.

Let''s say I have a list of 20 uids (call it "cool_friends"). 
These
are friends of the current user, and I''d like to retrieve User objects
for each friend (so that I can access first_name and last_name).

I know I could do something like:
facebook_session.user.friends!(:uid, :first_name, :last_name)

With that full friend list, I can iterate over it and match users to  
the list of "cool_friends", but that seems cumbersome and pulls back  
more users (all friends) than I need.

Can I request an array of users based on a list of UIDs?

Cheers,
Chris

facebook_session.users(ids, fields)


On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Let''s say I have a list of 20 uids (call it
"cool_friends").  These
> are friends of the current user, and I''d like to retrieve User  
> objects for each friend (so that I can access first_name and  
> last_name).
>
> I know I could do something like:
> facebook_session.user.friends!(:uid, :first_name, :last_name)
>
> With that full friend list, I can iterate over it and match users to  
> the list of "cool_friends", but that seems cumbersome and pulls
back
> more users (all friends) than I need.
>
> Can I request an array of users based on a list of UIDs?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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That worked perfectly.
Thanks Kevin for your reply.

-Chris

On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:51 PM, kevin lochner wrote:
> facebook_session.users(ids, fields)
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi there.
>>
>> Let''s say I have a list of 20 uids (call it
"cool_friends").  These
>> are friends of the current user, and I''d like to retrieve User
>> objects for each friend (so that I can access first_name and  
>> last_name).
>>
>> I know I could do something like:
>> facebook_session.user.friends!(:uid, :first_name, :last_name)
>>
>> With that full friend list, I can iterate over it and match users  
>> to the list of "cool_friends", but that seems cumbersome and
pulls
>> back more users (all friends) than I need.
>>
>> Can I request an array of users based on a list of UIDs?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>