Action in fb:request form is always null

Question

Hi,

UPDATE: this has just started happening again, would appreciate any help.

I am using server fbml to render an Invite Friends iframe and it was working fine up until two days ago. Basically, after submitting the form, a java action should be invoked where I get all the id's of the user's invited.

However, I now notice that an "invite by email" popup is showing up and, most importantly, my java action isn't being hit at all. When I inspect the form in firebug, I notice that the action is always empty (though all other parameters are preserved correctly).

I've tried setting email_invite=false on the multi-friend-selctor but to no avail.

My code looks like the following:

    <fb:fbml> 
        <fb:request-form action="http://localhost:8080/myAction.do?method=someAction" method="POST" invite="false" target="_top" type="invite" content="CONTENT_GOES_HERE" > 
            <fb:multi-friend-selector showborder="false" actiontext="Invite your friends to use our app." target="_top" email_invite="false"> 
        </fb:request-form> 
    </fb:fbml>

</script>

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this.

UPDATE: this has just started happening again, would appreciate any help.

Thanks, gearoid.

Answer 1

Facebook have recently added an extra step into the multi-friend selector process, which is what you're seeing. There isn't, as far as I know, any way to stop this from appearing.

However, you should still be getting the result of the selector sent to you once the user navigates away from the "invite by email" popup.

Facebook's latest update can be seen in this status post.

Answer 2

Is there a solution to this? I am seeing the same problem

Answer 3

I had an incorrect appId set in the fb-root javascript. This caused the error.