Joern Huxhorn wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm using Twitter4J on another small project and I was wondering if a > TwitterAppender would make sense.
I think it would be cool, similar to an IRC appender. > I'd obviously only do something in case of an error to prevent too much > tweets followed by a ban of the user. > I would have the benefit (at least foe ppl like me that get tweets > pushed to their phone ;)) that I would get informed immediately if > something really bad happens. > > I'm just brainstorming here but I'd like to hear other ppls opinions on > the case. > The Appender would have a dedicated Twitter user. Twitter user and > password would be set in the config. > Additionally, a list of Twitter usernames would be provided. > Those would receive a reply (or a DM?) in case of an error. > > Some questions that jump to my mind: > What should the actual message contain? We only have > 140-username.length()-2 characters. I think the layout should take care of this. > Messages shouldn't contain anything confidential... I think you should use makers for this. > Messages must not be the same all the time. They need to differ, > otherwise they will be ignored by Twitter. > How should flooding be prevented if the app keeps producing errors (this > would ban the twitter user, otherwise) I think that should go into an other appender (TrottlingAppender or whatever) that delegates to the TwitterAppender. Cheers Philippe _______________________________________________ logback-dev mailing list [email protected] http://qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-dev
