From: Josh Roesslein <jroesslein@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:51:25 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Added API.new() method. Updated tweepyshell.
X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c64242b46fd79f370b2811115a0fb0f3fda7fc50;p=tweepy.git

Added API.new() method. Updated tweepyshell.
---

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7ed169c..b38b357 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ during upgrade will be listed here.
 + API:
     + __init__() signature change; no longer accepts 'username' parameter
       which is now autodetected.
+    + added new() method. shortcut for setting up new API instances
+      example: API.new(auth='basic', username='testuser', password='testpass')
 + Fixes
     + User.following is now set to False instead of None
       when user is not followed.
diff --git a/tweepy/api.py b/tweepy/api.py
index 7f39cfc..0592b47 100644
--- a/tweepy/api.py
+++ b/tweepy/api.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from . binder import bind_api
 from . parsers import *
 from . error import TweepError
+from . auth import BasicAuthHandler, OAuthHandler
 
 """Twitter API"""
 class API(object):
@@ -22,6 +23,15 @@ class API(object):
     # not a good idea to touch these
     self._username = None
 
+  @staticmethod
+  def new(auth='basic', *args, **kargs):
+    if auth == 'basic':
+      return API(BasicAuthHandler(*args, **kargs))
+    elif auth == 'oauth':
+      return API(OAuthHandler(*args, **kargs))
+    else:
+      raise TweepError('Invalid auth type')
+
   """Get public timeline"""
   public_timeline = bind_api(
       path = '/statuses/public_timeline.json',
diff --git a/tweepy/auth.py b/tweepy/auth.py
index 59d502d..86dcdc1 100644
--- a/tweepy/auth.py
+++ b/tweepy/auth.py
@@ -85,6 +85,4 @@ class OAuthHandler(AuthHandler):
       return self.access_token
     except Exception, e:
       raise TweepError(e)
-      
-
 
diff --git a/tweepyshell.py b/tweepyshell.py
index 5f7de00..df4b479 100755
--- a/tweepyshell.py
+++ b/tweepyshell.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if len(sys.argv) != 3:
   print 'Usage: tweepyshell <username> <password>'
   exit(1)
 
-api = tweepy.API(tweepy.BasicAuthHandler(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]))
+api = tweepy.API.new(auth='basic', username=sys.argv[1], password=sys.argv[2])
 if api.verify_credentials() is False:
   print 'Invalid username and/or password!'
   exit(1)