// Make your API calls with this.
private Twitter twitter;
// The responses from the Twitter REST API go here.
private XmlDocument xmlresponse;
// NEVER hard code your password.
// I'm just trying to keep it simple for the example.
twitter = new Twitter("onil", "{my password}");
// Make a call to the 'update' method to post your status.
xmlresponse = twitter.StatusUpdate("Pooping.");
// Create a Status object using the XML response.
Status myStatus = new Status();
myStatus = (Status)XmlSerializerHelper.Deserialize(xmlresponse, typeof(Status));
// Convert the object back into XML.
// I find this useful for testing by printing the results to the screen.
xmlresponse = XmlSerializerHelper.Serialize(myStatus);
Here is a comparison of the response from the Twitter REST API against serializing the Status object:
Response from Twitter REST API
???<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<status>
<created_at>Fri Jan 16 04:17:39 +0000 2009</created_at>
<id>1122908409</id>
<text>Pooping.</text>
<source>web</source>
<truncated>false</truncated>
<in_reply_to_status_id>
</in_reply_to_status_id>
<in_reply_to_user_id>
</in_reply_to_user_id>
<favorited>false</favorited>
<in_reply_to_screen_name>
</in_reply_to_screen_name>
<user>
<id>13871782</id>
<name>Onil Patel</name>
<screen_name>onil</screen_name>
<location>Toronto, ON</location>
<description>
</description>
<profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50747572/me_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>
<url>http://onil.homeip.net</url>
<protected>false</protected>
<followers_count>3</followers_count>
</user>
</status>
Serialization of myStatus
???<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<status xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<created_at>Fri Jan 16 04:17:39 +0000 2009</created_at>
<id>1122908409</id>
<text>Pooping.</text>
<source>web</source>
<truncated>false</truncated>
<user>
<id>13871782</id>
<name>Onil Patel</name>
<screen_name>onil</screen_name>
<location>Toronto, ON</location>
<description />
<profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50747572/me_normal.jpg</profile_image_url>
<url>http://onil.homeip.net</url>
<protected>false</protected>
</user>
</status>
As you can see, I'm missing some elements (highlighted in red) in my Status class. Twitter probably added these after I created it. They'll be added in a future release of TwitterXML.
