Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Time for action – creating an HTTP Requestor

The idea is, we move all of the code regarding the URLLoader from CustomGraphContainerController to a separate class, called HTTPRequestor. We will then replace the CustomGraphContainerController constructor with this:

public function CustomGraphContainerController(a_graphControlContainer:GraphControlContainer)
{
  super(a_graphControlContainer);
  
  _requestor = new HTTPRequestor();
  _requestor.request(new GraphRequest("PacktPub"));
}

Why bother? Well, apart from being neater, there are two main advantages:

1. It's much simpler to request several Graph Objects or Graph Lists; no need to deal with multiple instances of URLLoader.
2. In the next chapter, we'll see how to use the official Adobe AS3 Facebook SDK to retrieve ...