Contextual leaderboards on Facebook Instant

The Defoldmine
#1

I’ve got this working and wanted to share a couple of gotchas I had.

To load and save contextual scores the leaderboard name and context needs to be concatenated for it to work, like this:

local context_id, context_type = fbinstant.get_context()
if context_id then
    local name = "Leaderboard Name"
    local name_and_context = name .. "." .. context_id	
    fbinstant.set_leaderboard_score( name_and_context, score, "", on_set_leaderboard_score )
end

This is from the docs:

fbinstant.set_leaderboard_score(name, score, extra_data, callback)

Note that the parameter extra_data is required fore the score to be saved (it can’t be nil).

#2

Hmm, did you get an error when it was nil?

#3

Locally no, and when testing on Facebook Instant I get nothing in the browser output window (at all). It was a little tricky troubleshooting because of this!

#4

Please create a ticket on the GitHub page for the extension. I’d like to add a check for this parameter.

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#5

Done! https://github.com/defold/extension-fbinstant/issues/58

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