Twitter connection - Java Social Media

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Description

Twitter connection

Demo Code


import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

import twitter4j.Twitter;
import twitter4j.TwitterException;
import twitter4j.TwitterFactory;
import twitter4j.auth.AccessToken;
import twitter4j.Status;

public class Connect {
    static Properties prop = new Properties();

    public static void getCredentials() throws FileNotFoundException {
        String propFilename = "twitter.properties";
        static InputStream inStream = null;

        //'this' is optional
        inStream = this.getClass().getClassLoader()
                .getResourceAsStream(propFilename);
        if (inStream == null) {
            throw new FileNotFoundException("property file '"
                    + propFilename + "' not found.");
        }/*from   w  ww .  ja v  a 2 s .c  o m*/

        try {
            prop.load(inStream);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("ERROR: " + ex.getMessage());
        }
    }

    public Twitter connectTwitterAPI() {
        Twitter twitter = null;

        Connect.getCredentials();

        String consumerKey = prop.getProperty("consumer_key");
        String consumerSecret = prop.getProperty("consumer_api");
        String token = prop.getProperty("access_token_key");
        String tokenSecret = prop.getProperty("access_token_secret");

        try {
            twitter = new TwitterFactory().getSingleton();

            twitter.setOAuthConsumer(consumerKey, consumerSecret);
            AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken(token, tokenSecret);

            twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("ERROR: " + ex.getMessage());
        }

        return twitter;
    }

    //test/driver
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        Connect conn = new Connect();

        Twitter myTwitter = conn.connectTwitterAPI();

        try {
            Status status = myTwitter
                    .updateStatus("Successfully connection with Connect.java");
        } catch (TwitterException te) {
            te.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("ERROR: " + te.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

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