Error Codes

Sometimes when you’re developing an application, you make mistakes. Fortunately, Facebook returns rather robust error messages when something goes wrong (like you forgot to provide a specific parameter for an API call). The error codes are returned with both a numeric value and a message. Generally, if you receive an error message (in a structure), it’s rather obvious when you read the error message (in the err_msg element). If you can’t figure out what’s going on with a specific call, it’s always a good idea to check out the code in the API Test Console (http://developer.facebook.com/tools.php). Although this won’t give you any more information than you are getting returned, it can help you narrow down what’s going on (in case you have multiple errors).