Issue 173 - twitter-api - Enhancement request to return user information in verify_credentials method

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Issue 173:	Enhancement request to return user information in verify_credentials method
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Status:	Fixed
Owner:	alexfpayne
Closed:	Dec 2008
Type-Enhancement
Priority-Medium

Reported by lientran15, Dec 02, 2008

Enhancement request to return user information in verify_credentials
instead of just string representing authorized? Useful if we could get the
user id at this time instead of having to make a separate call to get the
data.

Comment 1 by alexfpayne, Dec 02, 2008

This has been on my to-do list.  We'll take care of it ASAP.

Status: Accepted
Owner: alexfpayne
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

Comment 2 by funkatron, Dec 02, 2008

I worry a little bit about this one, as apps (like Spaz) may expect the "Authorized"
string as the indicator of success, and would consider anything else to indicate failure.

Comment 3 by alexfpayne, Dec 02, 2008

Hm.  How much advance do you need to push a new release?

Comment 4 by funkatron, Dec 02, 2008

Personally, I could write code for it tonight and push out a new release tomorrow if
I knew exactly what the JSON response for a valid result would be. I'd expect users
would take a few days to pick up the new release.  I can't speak to other clients,
though.

Comment 5 by naoki.hiroshima, Dec 02, 2008

I really hope this wouldn't break things currently working because one of my iPhone application is using the API 
and replacing iPhone app may take several days to a week as you may know.

Comment 7 by alexfpayne, Dec 02, 2008

We'll provide advance notice before the change.

Comment 8 by alexfpayne, Dec 02, 2008

We've got the change queued for deploy.  The discussion about the deploy date (December 10th, 2008) is here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/fd3a63597f6d0d3c

Status: Fixed

Comment 9 by lientran15, Dec 10, 2008

Thanks Alex!  The fix looks great!

Comment 10 by moeffju, Dec 11, 2008

The fix seems to have broken twhirl. twhirl 0.8.6 gives me "authentication failed" 
and doesn't fetch any tweets.

Comment 11 by alexfpayne, Dec 11, 2008

Very sorry to hear that it's breaking Twhirl, but we did offer advance notice and pushed the date of this change 
back so developers would have to ship new releases.

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