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Re: [ecf-dev] Some of my ideas for contribution to ECF
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Hi James and all,
On 6/30/2011 8:47 AM, James Sugrue wrote:
Hi
It's been a while since I've been properly involved in ECF, but I've a
few ideas that I'd like to run by the list, to see if there's any
interest/worth there.
A long time ago, Marcelo and I did some work on Tweethub. Due to
various reasons, we let is slide. There's a few things I'd like to do
to get that back up and running. It doesn't connect to Twitter
(there's a bug logged for this already).
Also, it would be interesting to try and remove the need for the
Twitter4J library.
I think the Tweethub project could be the basis of an interesting
tutorial about how providers work, and how to use them.
I think this is a great idea. Twitter is a great example of a case
where there still is a lot of desire to create new/other clients (and
integrating twitter functionality into other kinds of applications), and
ECF's provider architecture can/does make this very easy (in some cases
trivial).
My understanding is that the reason the old twitter code (test code)
doesn't currently work is that twitter changed to use the oauth
authentication protocol for login/access to the twitter API.
There are several OAuth impls for java...and so it should be easy to use
one of them for a twitter provider. There might even be one in Orbit
already (perhaps for the E4 project's usage?). In any event, an OAuth
java library would/should be simple to integrate into/use in an ECF
twitter provider (such a provider does not exist yet...but I think that
would be the thing to create....please let me know if pointers to ECF
provider template projects is desired...as they do exist).
Thanks,
Scott
