Re: Twitter component: Obtaining the unique identifier of the published tweet

[Brett Meyer <br...@3riverdev.com>]

+1

Good catch!  Odds are, other Twitter consumers are missing that as 
well.  I'll take a look and update the patch if needed.  Thanks!

Brett Meyer
3RiverDev.com
brett@3riverdev.com
260-349-5732


On 07/31/2012 08:54 AM, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When sending a request to publish a tweet to the Twitter API, the
> response will contain the "the unique identifier of the published
> tweet" (tweet id). Our application needs to store such tweet IDs and
> associate them with application-specific entities.
>
> We are fairly new with Apache Camel but as far as we have been to find
> out, the current "twitter://timeline/user" endpoint implementation (in
> the UserProducer class, see [1]) disregards the response object
> received from the Twitter4J library which contains (among others) the
> unique status update id (tweet id).
>
> We have implemented support for the InOut message exchange pattern
> which allows to process the response object received from the Twitter
> API when publishing a tweet and created a JIRA issue with the patch
> and unit tests:
>
> CAMEL-5479: Add support for the InOut Message Exchange Pattern to the
> twitter UserProducer in order to be able to retrieve the unique
> identifier for the published tweet
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5479
>
> This allows access to the Twitter API response object when using the
> InOut MEP in a route:
>
> from("direct:tweets")
>    ...
>    .inOut("twitter://timeline/user")
>    .transform().simple("The tweet '${body.text}' was published with the
> tweet id '${body.id}'")
>    ...
>
> Regards,
>
> /rafa
>
> [1] org.apache.camel.component.twitter.producer.UserProducer.java:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/components/camel-twitter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/twitter/producer/UserProducer.java?view=markup
>