Future Obsolescence? direct_message based endpoints going away June 19th, 2018

[bobber205]

How much work should it be to update this very nice package with this in mind?

As we outlined in April, User Streams and Site Streams, along with the legacy Direct Message endpoints, will be replaced by improved products such as Account Activity API.

Today, we are providing notice that on June 19, 2018 we are retiring the following services and endpoints:

    User Streams
    Site Streams
    GET direct_messages
    GET direct_messages/sent
    GET direct_messages/show
    POST direct_messages/destroy

any application, code or script reliant on these endpoints, or consuming libraries that rely on these endpoints, WILL cease to function after this date, and we strongly encourage all app and library developers to update code and documentation accordingly to avoid negative user experiences after this time

Further detail is provided in this blog post.

Please see our two migration guides for further assistance:

    Account Activity API migration guide (for User Streams and Site Streams developers)
    Direct Message endpoints migration guide (for Direct Message developers)

We encourage developers to follow announcements here on the forums, and to watch the developer platform roadmap, as we continue to invest in the API platform and to make new features available.

Looking at the code it looks like it's working off either GET direct_messages or User Streams right? Doesn't look like the direct_messages/new is affected so responding should work into the future.

I'm starting to build a prototype on this with the soon to be killed endpoint. -- If this works out well using the older endpoint I'm happy to make the changes -- just wanting some guidance if the OP thinks it's a big deal to change.

[jdwuarin]

Hi @bobber205, just seeing this now. I don't really remember what the twit package uses under the hood to make the requests. This package does use User Streams indeed. I haven't had a play with it in a while. If it is broken now, it would be great if you had a go at updating the necessary endpoints/dependencies.

Cheers