/**
* This method extracts all the information from the user and returns it.
*
* @param userID The user ID as registered with Facebook
* @return User Information in an object.
*/
private UserInfo getUserInfo(String userID) {
User user = null;
try {
user = connectionManager.getFacebookClient().fetchObject(userID, User.class);
} catch (FacebookException e) {
e.printStackTrace(); // To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File
// Templates.
}
UserInfo userInfo = new UserInfo(user);
return userInfo;
}
private boolean crawlUsers() {
CommandLine cli = cmdHelper.getParsedCmdLine();
List<String> usersToCrawl = new ArrayList<String>();
if (cli.hasOption("uc")) usersToCrawl.add((String) cmdHelper.getOptionValue("uc"));
else if (cli.hasOption("ul")) {
String fileName =
(String)
cmdHelper.getOptionValue(
"ul"); // This line is only there to check if we are getting the file name
// correctly
FileUtil.loadFile("UserIDs", usersToCrawl);
} else return false;
// Note: This is not efficient. Substitute later with thread pools.
for (String userID : usersToCrawl) {
FacebookClient facebookclient = connectionManager.getFacebookClient();
UserInfo info = getUserInfo(userID);
info.dump(outputStream);
}
return true;
}
