Replaced references to Api with OAuthApi... also broke the code terribly, but that's the point of this branch

apithreads.py

@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@ import re
 import gtk, gobject
 from threading import Thread,RLock
 import twitter_pb2
-from twitter import Api
+from oauthtwitter import OAuthApi
 from urllib2 import HTTPError,URLError
 import avcache
 
 
-class CustomApi(Api):
+class CustomApi(OAuthApi):
     '''
     This is a Twitter API with an RLock for multi-threaded access
     Also included is logic for processing the list names when the object is
     instantiated
     '''
 
-    def __init__(self, username, password):
-        Api.__init__(self, username, password)
+    def __init__(self):
+        OAuthApi.__init__(self, username, password)
         self.lock = RLock()
         self.sig_proxy = SigProxy()
 

oauthtwitter.py

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# 
+# Copyright under  the latest Apache License 2.0
+
+'''A class the inherits everything from python-twitter and allows oauth based access
+
+Requires:
+  python-twitter
+  simplejson
+  oauth
+'''
+
+__author__ = "Hameedullah Khan <hameed@hameedkhan.net>"
+__version__ = "0.2"
+
+
+from twitter import Api, User
+
+import simplejson, oauth
+
+
+
+# Taken from oauth implementation at: http://github.com/harperreed/twitteroauth-python/tree/master
+REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = 'https://twitter.com/oauth/request_token'
+ACCESS_TOKEN_URL = 'https://twitter.com/oauth/access_token'
+AUTHORIZATION_URL = 'http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize'
+SIGNIN_URL = 'http://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate'
+
+
+class OAuthApi(Api):
+    def __init__(self, consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token=None):
+        if access_token:
+            Api.__init__(self,access_token.key, access_token.secret)
+        else:
+            Api.__init__(self)
+        self._Consumer = oauth.OAuthConsumer(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
+        self._signature_method = oauth.OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()
+        self._access_token = access_token
+
+
+    def _GetOpener(self):
+        opener = self._urllib.build_opener()
+        return opener
+
+    def _FetchUrl(self,
+                    url,
+                    post_data=None,
+                    parameters=None,
+                    no_cache=None):
+        '''Fetch a URL, optionally caching for a specified time.
+    
+        Args:
+          url: The URL to retrieve
+          post_data: 
+            A dict of (str, unicode) key/value pairs.  If set, POST will be used.
+          parameters:
+            A dict whose key/value pairs should encoded and added 
+            to the query string. [OPTIONAL]
+          no_cache: If true, overrides the cache on the current request
+    
+        Returns:
+          A string containing the body of the response.
+        '''
+        # Build the extra parameters dict
+        extra_params = {}
+        if self._default_params:
+          extra_params.update(self._default_params)
+        if parameters:
+          extra_params.update(parameters)
+    
+        # Add key/value parameters to the query string of the url
+        #url = self._BuildUrl(url, extra_params=extra_params)
+    
+        if post_data:
+            http_method = "POST"
+            extra_params.update(post_data)
+        else:
+            http_method = "GET"
+        
+        req = self._makeOAuthRequest(url, parameters=extra_params, 
+                                                    http_method=http_method)
+        self._signRequest(req, self._signature_method)
+
+        
+        # Get a url opener that can handle Oauth basic auth
+        opener = self._GetOpener()
+        
+        #encoded_post_data = self._EncodePostData(post_data)
+
+        if post_data:
+            encoded_post_data = req.to_postdata()
+            url = req.get_normalized_http_url()
+        else:
+            url = req.to_url()
+            encoded_post_data = ""
+            
+        no_cache=True
+        # Open and return the URL immediately if we're not going to cache
+        # OR we are posting data
+        if encoded_post_data or no_cache:
+          if encoded_post_data:
+              url_data = opener.open(url, encoded_post_data).read()
+          else:
+              url_data = opener.open(url).read()
+          opener.close()
+        else:
+          # Unique keys are a combination of the url and the username
+          if self._username:
+            key = self._username + ':' + url
+          else:
+            key = url
+    
+          # See if it has been cached before
+          last_cached = self._cache.GetCachedTime(key)
+    
+          # If the cached version is outdated then fetch another and store it
+          if not last_cached or time.time() >= last_cached + self._cache_timeout:
+            url_data = opener.open(url).read()
+            opener.close()
+            self._cache.Set(key, url_data)
+          else:
+            url_data = self._cache.Get(key)
+    
+        # Always return the latest version
+        return url_data
+    
+    def _makeOAuthRequest(self, url, token=None,
+                                        parameters=None, http_method="GET"):
+        '''Make a OAuth request from url and parameters
+        
+        Args:
+          url: The Url to use for creating OAuth Request
+          parameters:
+             The URL parameters
+          http_method:
+             The HTTP method to use
+        Returns:
+          A OAauthRequest object
+        '''
+        if not token:
+            token = self._access_token
+        request = oauth.OAuthRequest.from_consumer_and_token(
+                            self._Consumer, token=token, 
+                            http_url=url, parameters=parameters, 
+                            http_method=http_method)
+        return request
+
+    def _signRequest(self, req, signature_method=oauth.OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()):
+        '''Sign a request
+        
+        Reminder: Created this function so incase
+        if I need to add anything to request before signing
+        
+        Args:
+          req: The OAuth request created via _makeOAuthRequest
+          signate_method:
+             The oauth signature method to use
+        '''
+        req.sign_request(signature_method, self._Consumer, self._access_token)
+    
+
+    def getAuthorizationURL(self, token, url=AUTHORIZATION_URL):
+        '''Create a signed authorization URL
+        
+        Returns:
+          A signed OAuthRequest authorization URL 
+        '''
+        req = self._makeOAuthRequest(url, token=token)
+        self._signRequest(req)
+        return req.to_url()
+
+    def getSigninURL(self, token, url=SIGNIN_URL):
+        '''Create a signed Sign-in URL
+        
+        Returns:
+          A signed OAuthRequest Sign-in URL 
+        '''
+        
+        signin_url = self.getAuthorizationURL(token, url)
+        return signin_url
+    
+    def getAccessToken(self, url=ACCESS_TOKEN_URL):
+        token = self._FetchUrl(url, no_cache=True)
+        return oauth.OAuthToken.from_string(token) 
+
+    def getRequestToken(self, url=REQUEST_TOKEN_URL):
+        '''Get a Request Token from Twitter
+        
+        Returns:
+          A OAuthToken object containing a request token
+        '''
+        resp = self._FetchUrl(url, no_cache=True)
+        token = oauth.OAuthToken.from_string(resp)
+        return token
+    
+    def GetUserInfo(self, url='https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json'):
+        '''Get user information from twitter
+        
+        Returns:
+          Returns the twitter.User object
+        '''
+        json = self._FetchUrl(url)
+        data = simplejson.loads(json)
+        self._CheckForTwitterError(data)
+        return User.NewFromJsonDict(data)
+