The fact is, the code in Pebble that posts to Twitter is only a couple of
lines of code, there's no abstraction layer because none is needed. Those
few lines of code and can just directly be replaced with code that talks to
a new library.
Now if you have an API key and secret, and an access key and secret, then
the work is really easy, just change the plugins.xml to allow a user to
configure those things, and you're done. However, getting an access key
and secret is not a straight forward thing, I don't know if Twitter
provides a way to manually get one? So you would have to implement some
actions in Pebble to do the OAuth dance, and this is where things are
complex.
On 2 January 2013 06:01, David Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, pls excuse the top post.
>
> Using Christian's suggestion I created a so-called Twitter app and
> received a consumer key and a consumer secret.
>
> Plugging in the consumer key and secret at the command line:
>
> java -jar twitter4j-2.0.10.jar -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerKey=[mykey]
> -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret=[mysecret]
> twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate "Hello World"
>
> only returns the following:
>
> Twitter4J 2.0.10
>
> Studying the Pebble code in twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate.java I don't
> even understand where the string above is returned so obviously the
> twitter4j.jar is broken and is definitely not supported by Twitter.
>
> The only thing I found supported by Twitter for Java is the old
> kenai.com project hosting now defunct:
>
> http://kenai.com/projects/twitterapime/pages/Home
>
> So answering my own post it appears James is right and there exists no
> straight up API from twitter to perform any type of communication w/
> Twitter.
>
> There appears to be Ruby, C#, PHP, et. al. support but no Java.
>
>
> On 01/01/2013 11:13 AM, David Brown wrote:
> > Hi Christian, thnx for the reply.
> >
> > However, I'm more conflicted then b4 posting this.
> >
> > Please see below my response to some of your comments.
> >
> > This is what I have to study this issue:
> >
> > * A local clone of Pebble from github:
> > https://github.com/pebbleblog/pebble (thanks to James Pebble is much
> > easier to work with than in the past).
> >
> > * Running: mvn:site run at the command line spits out this: Building
> > Pebble 2.6.5-SNAPSHOT
> >
> > * I have the Pebble clone in my Intellij and this is what I have found
> > under Project:External Libraries:
> > ** The twitter4j-2.0.10.jar
> > ** package twitter4j.examples
> > ** public class OAuthUpdate
> >
> > The class OAuthUpdate method main() has a usage comment that references
> > your suggestions below:
> >
> > Usage: java -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerKey=[consumer key]
> > -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret=[consumer secret]
> > twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate [message]
> >
> > Though the example code does not look like what you have provided below.
> >
> > I'm tempted to attempt running the OAuthUpdate main to see what happens
> > if I can acquire the tokens from Twitter as specified below.
> >
> > If I can get the Pebble/Twitter example to work then I would like to
> > create a git branch (I'm using gitflow) to tinker with this issue in an
> > effort to get it to work.
> >
> > The original author was: Yusuke Yamamoto.
> >
> > Maybe someone can chime in.
> >
> > Regards, David.
> >
> >
> > On 01/01/2013 07:32 AM, Christian Bockermann wrote:
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> the UI way is definitely not the only solution. A few weeks ago I worked
> >> with the twitter API for crawling purposes and had to connect my code to
> >> their API. I used the 'scribe' library to accomplish the oauth stuff.
> >>
> >> The only needed pieces have been the 'consumerKey', 'consumerSecret' and
> >> the application tokens 'accessToken' and 'accessTokenSecret'. The UI way
> >> you mentioned is *one* way to obtain a temporary accessToken+secret.
> >>
> >> However, you can log into the twitter developer API and create a new
> >> application for yourself. This application will then be equipped with a
> >> permanent access token+secret that you can further use in your API:
> >>
> >>
> >> // create a new OAuth service
> >> //
> >> authService = new ServiceBuilder().provider(TwitterApi.class)
> >> .apiKey(consumerKey)
> >> .apiSecret(consumerSecret)
> >> .build();
> >>
> >> // if you already have the accessToken+secret from the developer
> >> // API you're done:
> >> //
> >> Token token = new Token(accessToken, accessTokenSecret);
> >>
> >>
> >> Then I accessed the twitter REST API directly. For sure, that's not
> >> as convenient as it should be, but at least it's a way to access Twitter
> >> without the UI solution.
> >>
> >>
> >> I haven't looked into the pebble code for a long time and do not know
> >> much about it. If it uses the twitter4j library directly, it will be
> >> difficult to modify it. If there is a thin custom layer in between, it
> >> might be possible to extend it with scribd.
> > I went to scribd.com (wrong site?).
> > I'm not the most up-to-date tech guy but I don't see any hint of an API
> > or library at scribd (sorry).
> >> Happy new year to all!
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 01.01.2013 um 05:47 schrieb David Brown <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>> Hi James. Thnx for the reply. I anticipated this answer. Unfortunate.
> Looking into the Fb and twitter APIs it appears their UI way is the only
> solution.
> >>>
> >>> James Roper <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Pebbles support for posting to Twitter was implemented before Twitter
> introduced their oauth only authentication policy. It still tries to use a
> username and password, which Twitter now disallows, hence it simply won't
> work. A few years ago I had a look at what it would take to add OAuth
> support, and found that the Twitter library that Pebble uses doesn't
> support OAuth, and it didn't look like it ever would. Adding OAuth support
> would probably require rewriting that plugin, and would require
> implementing new actions to support doing the OAuth dance to get the access
> token from Twitter for the account you want to post with. This is no small
> task.
> >>>
> >>> As far as I am aware, Pebble has never supported posting to Facebook.
> It does support commenters getting their username and profile picture from
> Facebook automatically associated with their posts, but that's all. This
> is mostly done client side. Posting to Facebook would require server side
> work, and would not be trivial.
> >>>
> >>> What Pebble does support is rendering social links below a blog post,
> this includes Twitter and Facebook I think, and when you click them brings
> up a popup from those websites that let you share the link to the blog
> post. These links are incredibly out of date, and include links to sites
> that no longer exist. It needs to be updated by someone who is interested
> in using these features still.
> >>>
> >>> On 1 January 2013 12:00, David Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hi All, in some previous Pebble revision long ago I know that Pebble
> >>> would post to either FB or Twitter.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the Pebble plugin config and the 2.6.4 sourcecode FB and
> >>> attemping to use a so-called FB app id it appears posting to FB might
> be
> >>> a longshot for Pebble.
> >>>
> >>> Twitter on the otherhand appears more likely to work since I have been
> >>> able to get some Pebble logs feedback.
> >>>
> >>> If anyone has something to say about the logs posted below please
> advise.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance, David.
> >>>
> >>>
> ************************************************************************************************
> >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:40 AM
> >>> net.sourceforge.pebble.event.blogentry.PostToTwitterBlogEntryListener
> >>> getProperty
> >>> SEVERE: Twitter credentials (url) not found. Please configure
> >>> twitter.url in order to post to twitter
> >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:41 AM
> >>> net.sourceforge.pebble.event.blogentry.PostToTwitterBlogEntryListener
> >>> getProperty
> >>> SEVERE: Twitter credentials (simulate) not found. Please configure
> >>> twitter.simulate in order to post to twitter
> >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:43 AM
> >>>
> net.sourceforge.pebble.webservice.UpdateNotificationPingsClient$UpdateNotificationPingsAsyncCallback
> >>> handleResult
> >>>
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