TwitterSocialAdapter

Twitter adapter is an implementation of the Social Adapter dedicated to Twitter platform. It can be called as specified into GVSocialAdapter-Configuration specifying a method name to call, or with some custom function reflecting Twitter ones.

Please refer to GVSocialAdapter-Configuration to see the generic call.

The VCL operations usable in the workflows are the following:

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	twitter-update-status	tweet
	twitter-retweet-status	retweet
	twitter-enable-notification	follow
	twitter-disable-notification	unfollow
	twitter-get-followers-ids	get followers
	twitter-get-friends-ids	get friends
	twitter-send-direct-message	send direct tweet

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	twitter-get-user-timeline	get user timeline
	twitter-search	search status updates

Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
type	fixed	This attribute must assume the value social-adapter.
class	fixed	This attribute must assume the value it.greenvulcano.gvesb.social.twitter.TwitterSocialAdapter.
social	fixed	This attribute must assume the value twitter.

Might contain the following sub-elements:

• Description
• Account
• Proxy

Account

Defines the properties of a Twitter application account.

Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
name	required	Account name (avoid spaces in @name value).
consumer_key	required	Account consumer key.
consumer_secret	required	Account consumer secret.
twitteruserid	required	Account consumer twitter id.

For every Account, the information must be completed defining the following couple of properties into TwitterAccounts.properties file:

ACCOUNT_NAME.oauth_access_token=...
ACCOUNT_NAME.oauth_access_token_secret=...   

where ACCOUNT_NAME is Account/@name value.

To get the required token/key/secret follow the instructions on tokens-devtwittercom