Java 9 Programming Blueprints

Implementing a Twitter client

The second interface is SocialMediaClient. This interface serves not only as an abstraction that Sunago can use to interact with an arbitrary social network integration, but also as a guideline for interested developers to show them the minimum requirements for the integration. It looks like this:

    public interface SocialMediaClient { 
      void authenticateUser(String token, String tokenSecret); 
      String getAuthorizationUrl(); 
      List<? Extends SocialMediaItem> getItems(); 
      boolean isAuthenticated(); 
    } 

For Twitter support, this preceding interface is implemented by the class TwitterClient. Most of the class is pretty basic, so we won't reproduce that here (you can peruse it in the source repository if you'd like details), ...