Facebook Game Requests - Object not owned by the app

Question

I am trying to implement Facebook Game Requests to my Android App.

GameRequestContent.Builder() needs to have .setObjectId() called, to use ActionType.SEND or ActionType.ASKFOR. Where do I get this object?

When I try to create object using Object Manager or Object API I get this error in the Facebook dialog:

Object type 'Game' for ID 'xxxxxxxxxx' is not owned by this app.

Even though I always provide App Access Token in the creation process.

I even tried to set tag fb:app_id of the object to id of my app, but that information wasn't saved without any error messages.

I can't seem to find anyone adressing this topic anywhere in this manner, I mainly don't even understand why Object Id is required in a first place, so perhaps I confused more different topics from Facebook api (its terminology can get very confusing).

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I am having the same issue.

I just changed my app to live instead of keeping it in debug mode and now it is suddenly working.

I was having the same exact issues you outlined and this worked for me.

I also realized that I changed the object type from game to product. Even with it set to published/live a game object does not work but a product object works.

Also, upon more research https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph shows object types. There is a game.achievementbut not a game.

There is a product object with a description

This object type represents a product. This includes both virtual and physical products, but it typically represents items that are available in an online store.

Even though the API and graph explorer gives us an ID for the game object it seems like it isn't the proper object to use.

{
  "created_time": "2016-12-13T19:15:59+0000",
  "title": "Shots",
  "type": "product",
  "data": {
    "is_product_shareable": true
  },
  "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

is the response I get when I do a get on /v2.8/object ID