Using the link generated by photos.upload to stream.publish about facebook-ios-sdk

[yujuan]

All FBCDN image are not meant to be permanent, they are cached on-demand. So applications should provide their own permanent image. This is our current design. I will let you know if things can be changed. Thanks!

[Rivm]

I see. Is there a way to publish an uploaded photo on the user's wall; this action would be akin to selecting that particular photo from its respective album and then selecting "share".

[yujuan]

You can try to share a link to this photo, using the url like http://www.facebook.com/yujuan#!/photo.php?pid=1070769&id=1577686762&fbid=1462901144002&ref=mf but not the fbcdn url...

[yujuan]

I see what is going on you need to ask photo_upload extended permission, i.e. ask extended permissions like:
_permissions = [[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
@"read_stream", @"offline_access",@"photo_upload",nil] retain];

Thanks

[Rivm]

I checked the extended permissions page at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions and I do not see where they have photo_upload listed. In any case, when I select an album photo and click "share", I am able to publish a post on my wall with an image of that particular photo along with a user-specified message. When I call the RESTful API to invoke photos.upload, I can upload an UIImage (packed as NSData) to the "My Uploads" album. The request returns a result containing information like: aid, caption, created, link, owner, pid, src, "src_big", "src_small", and "story_fbid". However, since all generated links are FBCDN (and Graph API redirects to this as well), I cannot link and show the actual photo in a stream.publish post; they are cached on-demand as you have mentioned before. Additionally, subsequent photo uploads end up being grouped together so any caption, descriptions, and messages are lost with multiple uploads. Thusfar, I've only been successfully able use the Dialog to call stream.publish to allow the user to create a message, and then href the "link" field from the request result of photos.upload.

Is it possible what I listed before:

1. User creates custom art content (e.g. a painting application) via UIImage.
2. Application packages it via NSData and uploads the image and allows for user-customizable message (like when normally calling the Dialog with the stream.publish function).
3. Post appears on user's Wall including an IMG SRC of the uploaded image along with the user-created message (e.g. "Look what I made this time!") which has an HREF to the album photo (via facebook.com/photo.php?pid={PID}&id={ID}).

Thanks in advance for all your replies.

[yujuan]

Currently, the only way is that you use some other website to host the image and use stream publish dialog which specify the link to the pic...