Yes - Please can we have that urgently - yes or no? Thanks
Simon On Jan 6, 8:15 pm, PJB <pjbmancun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we please get some confirmation that the cursor-less calls won't > be going away this coming Monday? > > On Dec 22 2009, 4:13 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum <wilh...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > We noticed that some clients are still calling social graph methods > > without cursor parameters. We wanted to take time to make sure that > > people were calling the updated methods which return data with cursors > > instead of the old formats that do not. > > > As previously announced in September (http://bit.ly/46x1iL) and > > November (http://bit.ly/3UQ0LU), the legacy data formats returned > > as a result of calling social graph endpoints without a cursor > > parameter are deprecated and will be removed. > > > These formats have been removed from the API wiki since September. > > > You should always pass a cursor parameter. Starting soon, if you fail > > to pass a cursor, the data returned will be that of the first cursor > > (-1) and the next_cursor and previous_cursor elements will be included. > > > If you aren't seeing next_cursor and previous_cursor in your results, > > you are getting data back in the old format. You will need to adjust > > your parser to handle the new format. > > > We're going to start assuming you want data in the new format > > (users_list / users / user or id_list / ids / id) instead of the old > > format (users / user or ids / id) regardless of your passing a cursor > > parameter as of 1/11/2010. > > > * The old formats will no longer be returned after 1/11/2010. > > * Start using the new formats now by passing the 'cursor' parameter. > > > To recap, the old endpoints at > > > /statuses/friends.xml > > /statuses/followers.xml > > > returned > > > <users type="array"> > > <user> > > <!-- ... omitted ... --> > > </user> > > </users> > > > or JSON like [{/*user record*/ /*, .../] > > > whereas > > > /statuses/friends.xml?cursor=n > > /statuses/followers.xml?cursor=n > > > return data that looks like > > > <users_list> > > <users type="array"> > > <user> > > <!-- ... omitted ... --> > > </user> > > </users> > > <next_cursor>7128872798413429387</next_cursor> > > <previous_cursor>0</previous_cursor> > > </users_list> > > > or, the JSON equivalent: > > > {"users":[{/*user record*/} /*, ...*/], "next_cursor":0, > > "previous_cursor":0} > > > and the old endpoints at > > > /friends/ids.xml > > /followers/ids.xml > > > returned data that looks like > > > <ids> > > <id>1</id> > > <id>2</id> > > <id>3</id> > > </ids> > > > whereas > > > /friends/ids.xml?cursor=n > > /followers/ids.xml?cursor=n > > > return data that looks like > > > <id_list> > > <ids> > > <id>1</id> > > <id>2</id> > > <id>3</id> > > </ids> > > <next_cursor>1288724293877798413</next_cursor> > > <previous_cursor>-1300794057949944903</previous_cursor> > > </id_list> > > > or, the JSON equivalent: > > > {"ids":[1, 2, 3], "next_cursor":0, "previous_cursor":0} > > > If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them > > to twitter-development-talk. > > > Thanks! > > > -- > > Wilhelm Bierbaum > > Twitter Platform Team- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -