Initial commit of 'conversation' button... needs a lot of work still

apithreads.py

@@ -145,6 +145,53 @@ class GetSingleTweet(ApiThread):
 
 
 
+class GetConversation(ApiThread):
+    def __init__(self, api, pane, root_tweet_id):
+        ApiThread.__init__(self, api)
+        self.pane = pane
+        self.root_tweet_id = root_tweet_id
+
+
+    def run(self):
+        statuses = []
+        last_tweet = None
+
+        # Get the root tweet
+        try:
+            with self.api.lock:
+                last_tweet = self.api.GetStatus(self.single_tweet)
+            statuses.append(last_tweet)
+        except (HTTPError, URLError):
+            statuses = None
+            last_tweet = None
+
+        # get tweets in a loop, until there is no in_reply_to_status_id
+        if last_tweet is not None:
+            while last_tweet.in_reply_to_status_id is not None:
+                try:
+                    with self.api.lock:
+                        last_tweet = self.api.GetStatus(self.single_tweet)
+                    statuses.append(last_tweet)
+                except (HTTPError, URLError):
+                    last_tweet = None
+        
+        # In case we've never seen some of these users, grab their profile images and cache them
+        for status in statuses:
+            avcache.add_to_cache(status.user)
+
+        statuses.reverse()
+
+        gtk.gdk.threads_enter()
+        try:
+            self.pane.update_window(statuses)
+        finally:
+            gtk.gdk.threads_leave()
+
+
+### End class GetConversation
+
+
+
 class GetFollowing(ApiThread):
     def __init__(self, api, pane, user):
         ApiThread.__init__(self, api)