The app references non-public selector in id (Facebook SDK iOS)

Question

I was having this warning when submitting my app with Application Loader.

The app references non-public selector in MyApp : id

This warning can potentially reject my app from Apple AppStore's validation.

My app is using Facebook SDK iOS 3.1.1 (also tried with 3.1)

Answer 1

This problem happens because of the Facebook SDK for iOS.

Application Loader forbids the use of the variable "id" from any FBGraphUser related class (maybe others variables too, didn't test) - e.g. :

id<FBGraphUser> friend
id<FBGraphUserExtraFields>user

Facebook is informed about this problem as of january 2013 : Bug Report

The workaround for the moment is to use these:

[user objectForKey:@"id"]
[friend objectForKey:@"id"]

instead of user.id and friend.id as shown in the different Facebook samples.

Answer 2

Just to update for people coming here from search engines, this is fixed in the latest Facebook SDK (have just moved our project to library version 3.7.1 and validation warnings went away).

Answer 3

For anyone new coming here looking for an answer on this. The problem seem to have been fixed in v3.14.1 according to Facebook SDK change log

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/change-log-3.x/

• The id property on the types FBGraphObject, FBGraphPlace, FBOpenGraphAction, and FBOpenGraphObject have been deprecated in favor of objectID to avoid app store submission warnings.

• The description property of FBLinkShareParams and FBOpenGraphObject
  has been deprecated in favor of linkDescription and
  objectDescription, respectively, to avoid app store submission
  warnings.

Answer 4

Facebook iOS SDK 3.12 the same problem in FBGraphUser.h.

Change

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *id;

to

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *UserId;

Answer 5

File FBGraphUser.h

change

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *id;

by

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *FbUserId;

Answer 6

Use Facebook iOS SDK 3.13. there won't be any validation warnings.

Answer 7

I solved this issue (where 13.1 would still generate warnings and produce an invalid binary in itunesconnect) by downloading the FacebookSDK source from Github (link) and using the "build_framework.sh" script in the scripts dir. Then added the generated framework to my Xcode project - and got no more warnings.

Answer 8

The validation warnings are also present in v3.13. I don't know if this will work for other people but he's a quick workaround that got rid of the error. In FBGraphUser.h around line 41 I changed...

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *id;

to

@property (retain, nonatomic) NSString *FBUserID; 

I was also getting the same validation warning about setProfileId so I went to FBProfilePictureView.h and changed profileID on line 54 & 76 to FBID.

I then updated my FBLoginView information in my game's ViewController to reflect the changes. Everything FB related still seems to work in my app and it passed the Application Loader validation.