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Classic ASP

Emoji Tweet

Demonstrates posting a status update that includes an emoji character.

This example is deprecated and no longer valid.

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<html>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
success = 0

'  This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

'  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
'  This initial setup, which involves setting the OAuth1 properties and connecting
'  to api.twitter.com, is only required once at the beginning.  Once connected, the same
'  object instance may be re-used, and if necessary, it will automatically reconnect
'  as needed.

'  Assume we've previously obtained an access token and saved it to a JSON file..
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/twitter.json")

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")
set oauth1 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.OAuth1")

oauth1.ConsumerKey = "TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"
oauth1.ConsumerSecret = "TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"
oauth1.Token = json.StringOf("oauth_token")
oauth1.TokenSecret = json.StringOf("oauth_token_secret")
oauth1.SignatureMethod = "HMAC-SHA1"
success = oauth1.GenNonce(16)

success = rest.SetAuthOAuth1(oauth1,0)

bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("api.twitter.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  This ends the initial setup...
'  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

'  For this example, I've pre-created a text file containing two emoji
'  characters (the "ghost" emoji, and a "face savouring delicious food" emoji).  
'  This text file was saved using the utf-8 encoding.

'  The utf-8 bytes for the ghost emoji are 0x9f 0x91 0xbb.  (Note: This is the utf-8
'  representation that does not use surrogate pairs.)
'  
'  The utf-8 bytes for the "face savouring delicious food" emoji are \xF0\x9F\x98\x8B.

set sbText = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbText.LoadFile("qa_data/txt/ghost_emoji.txt","utf-8")
success = sbText.Prepend("Test tweet using two emoji chars: ")

'  Send a tweet...
success = rest.ClearAllQueryParams()
success = rest.AddQueryParam("status",sbText.GetAsString())
resp = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/1.1/statuses/update.json")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set jsonResponse = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
success = jsonResponse.Load(resp)

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonResponse.Emit()) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Show the successful response:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( jsonResponse.Emit()) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

%>
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