Twitter

Table of Contents

Setup
Usage

The platform adapter for Twitter allows Appkit applications to search Twitter or retrieve a user’s timeline using the Twitter API.

Setup

To add Twitter connectors to a Maven project, you must add this dependency to your project’s pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>twigkit</groupId>
    <artifactId>twigkit.twitter</artifactId>
    <version>${project.parent.version}</version>
</dependency>

Usage

This example shows how to configure a Twitter platform.

name: twigkit.search.twitter.Twitter
oAuthConsumerKey: foo
oAuthConsumerSecret: foo
oAuthAccessToken: foo
oAuthAccessSecret: foo

Required attributes

oAuthConsumerKey (java.lang.String)
OAuth consumer key for the Twitter API.

oAuthConsumerSecret (java.lang.String)
OAuth consumer secret for the Twitter API.

oAuthAccessToken (java.lang.String)
OAuth access token for the Twitter API.

oAuthAccessSecret (java.lang.String)
OAuth access secret for the Twitter API.

Optional attributes

userTimeline (java.lang.String)
User timeline to retrieve.

Attributes shared across platforms

host (java.lang.String)
The URI of the platform. Must be specified using the full URI (for example, http://localhost:1234; localhost:1234 will not work).

name (java.lang.String)
The display name of this Platform instance. Used for identifying different platforms in the user interface.

aliases (java.lang.String)
Manage mappings from field names to aliases (use a comma-separated list). All references to the field (via this platform) in results, facets, filters, and query strings are mapped. For example, to refer to a field in the index named firstnamelastname as name and countryofresidence as country, use these mappings: aliases="firstnamelastname=name,countryofresidence=country"

defaultQuery (java.lang.String)
Default query to use when none is specified.

defaultFacets (java.lang.String)
Default facets to request when none are specified. This is a comma separated list.

spellCheck (java.lang.Boolean)
Spellcheck the Query term if supported by the Platform.
Default: true

expandQuery (java.lang.Boolean)
Apply advanced linguistics such as stemming or lemmatization if supported by the Platform. Default: true

autoCorrect (java.lang.Boolean)
Whether to auto-correct and resubmit futile queries (queries with zero results).
Default: true

fileTypeField (java.lang.String)
Set which field contains information about file type (mime type).

resultIDField (java.lang.String)
Set which field represents the unique identifier for a given result.

pageLimit (java.lang.Long)
A limitation to which page the platform will offset.