Hi All, would it be possible to get an additional API function which delivers the screennames instead of ID's?
The reason is, I work on a Client App in .NET On Startup I load the followers, friends and blocked ID's. I use this to show the status then in my application and enable/ disable the menus with follow/ unfollw DM and so on. So I save expensive API calls (follow someone which I already follow) which ends in API Errors. So far so good. Now I try to implement the search API. This delivers me ATOM XML back. I Try to fill my status object and included User object with the less informations in delivered ATOM to show it in the same Quality like a User Timeline. Unfortunately the only thing I have in ATOM result is the screenname combined with username in one tag. No Problem I resolve that with RegEx. What urgently is missed is the user ID to compare it with the followers and friend list of ID's Now 2 solutions are possible: 1) adding the userID in the search results 2) offer an API call within social graph methods which delivers screennames In case of 2) I could use the unique screenname as Key. This would be a disadvantage because of searchroutines work always slower on string. Better soulution would be to delivers the userID within the searchresults. Is there any way to realize this? I do not think that I'm the only one ho miss this. Best regards, Thomas
