Facebook Graph API & ColdFusion: "Param no_story must be a boolean"

Question

I'm trying to post an image to an album via the Facebook Graph API with following ColdFusion-Code:

<cfhttp method="post" url="https://graph.facebook.com/#albumid#/photos/">
    <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="access_token" value="#access_token#" />
    <cfhttpparam type="file" name="source" file="#img_dir#\dummy.jpg" />
    <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="message" value="foo bar" />
    <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="true" />
</cfhttp>

If I omit no_story=true, the whole thing works perfectly, however I need this attribute to prevent the post from appearing on my wall. I'm getting this error:

{"error":{"message":"(#100) Param no_story must be a boolean","type":"OAuthException","code":100}}

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8 WWW-Authenticate: OAuth "Facebook Platform" "invalid_request" "(#100) Param no_story must be a boolean" Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * X-FB-Rev: 1568945 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-store Facebook-API-Version: v2.2 Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT X-FB-Debug: Vt7Viz/nlNfsQDDfNKtVuBjfgjDiWPFxYb0TAEpJJa9NjrR+TrEB8nuMOerQJYMX9E2e1CeqfBZT70/1KODErg== Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:13:31 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 98

I have tried following variations:

<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="TRUE" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="True" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="#true#" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="#JavaCast('boolean', true)#" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="1" />
<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="Yes" />

None of these worked.

Can you show your post request body, As in what the browser shows what data it is actually posting. Use dev tools in the browser to find it. — haxtbh
@haxtbh Unfortunately this is happening server-side. I'm trying to find a way to see what data is posted. — Boris
Check the current status here: developers.facebook.com/bugs/855430617846913 — Boris
@Boris - In case the link breaks, can you post a brief summary of what it says? — Leigh

Jacob M. Jacob M. · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-23T23:04:59

Difficult to test that out, but I suspect maybe it is passing the text as opposed to the boolean value. Maybe try:

<cfset mytruebool = True>

Then:

<cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="no_story" value="#mytruebool#" />

The key difference being no quotes on the cfset assignment.

Facebook Graph API & ColdFusion: "Param no_story must be a boolean"

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