All information in the Facebook Graph API is stored as either an object, a property of an object, or as a connection between two or more objects. In this recipe, we're going be looking specifically at loading a single object from the Graph API.
This 'object' can represent practically any single element of Facebook—be it a User, an Event, or a Status message—with the properties of that object being determined by the object's type and our application's Extended Permissions.
Each Graph API object has its own ID, which is an identification number that is unique across the entire Facebook ecosystem, and each object can be referenced and retrieved from the Graph API based on an URL schema which revolves around the use of that ID.
There are two main steps to retrieving, and working with, an object from the Graph API:
1. The first step is to know the unique ID of the object to be loaded.
2. The next step is to anticipate the type of object that will be returned...