Setting an event's picture using the /EVENT ID/picture endpoint does not work as expected- Facebook Developers

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Oliver Bolton

08/24/2012 10:56pm

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BugsSetting an event's picture using the /EVENT ID/picture endpoint does not work as expected

Status: Fixed
Priority: Medium
Updated: September 19, 2012 at 1:23pm

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Sean Quinlan

This should now be resolved. Thanks for your patience.

Status changed to Fixed · September 19, 2012 at 1:23pm

Sean Quinlan

Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.

Status changed to Assigned · Priority changed to Medium · August 27, 2012 at 11:36am

The Event object documentation states that you should be able to add a picture to an event by issuing an HTTP POST request to /EVENT_ID/picture with image data in the 'source' field.

However, if you attempt to do this, Facebook responds with an error and the event's picture is not changed.

Combined with this bug: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/254007748035978, it is not currently possible to set a picture for an event using the Graph API (with the Events Timezone migration enabled at the least).

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Obtain an access token with the "create_event" permission.

2. Attempt to set the picture of an existing event of which you are an admin by sending a multipart POST request to /EVENT_ID/picture, providing the image data in the 'source' field. For example:

curl -F 'source=@image.jpg' https://graph.facebook.com/EVENT_ID/picture?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Expected Behavior:

The Graph API should respond with 'true' and the event's picture should be changed.

Actual Behavior:

Facebook responds with the following error (with an HTTP status code of 500):

{"error_code":1,"error_msg":"An unknown error occurred"}

The event's picture is not changed.

API/SDK:

Graph API

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