Permission migration from publish_stream to publish_action

Question

I am wondering if you have a users permission to publish_stream and you want to publish_action from now on does publish_stream cover both or do we need to re-request the users permission?

If so whats the easiest way of detecting wether they have this permission granted etc.

User journey suggestions welcome.

The login system I have in place is users can use with facebook or their account credentials.

But some users sign up without facebook and then connect later. I don't create the session every time they login as I only need the publish_stream permission which works without needing a live user session with facebook to post when the user does specific actions. There is one column in the table which specifies wether the user is connected or not.

Suggestions welcome.

Thanks!

-Stefan

Answer 1

As of now, publish_stream includes publish_actions permissions.

see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/publishing/#publish_stream

The publish_stream permission is a superset of publish_actions allowing everything that publish_actions allows plus more.