Twitter XML Errors Handled Badly

fletom commented

2013-09-07 00:55:30 -07:00

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When a pair of intermediary OAuth tokens expire before you use them (or if you try to reuse them) Twitter spits out a weird XML error. Twython handles this very ungracefully and doesn't raise an error of any kind. Instead if gives us a dictionary with <?xml version as its only key.

>>> twitter.get_authorized_tokens(request.GET['oauth_verifier'])
{u'<?xml version': u'"1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<hash>\n  <error>Invalid / expired Token</error>\n  <request>/oauth/access_token?oauth_verifier=[redacted]</request>\n</hash>\n'}

When a pair of intermediary OAuth tokens expire before you use them (or if you try to reuse them) Twitter spits out a weird XML error. Twython handles this very ungracefully and doesn't raise an error of any kind. Instead if gives us a dictionary with `<?xml version` as its only key. ``` >>> twitter.get_authorized_tokens(request.GET['oauth_verifier']) {u'<?xml version': u'"1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<hash>\n <error>Invalid / expired Token</error>\n <request>/oauth/access_token?oauth_verifier=[redacted]</request>\n</hash>\n'} ```

michaelhelmick commented

2013-09-25 13:23:28 -07:00

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Hm, Twitter seems to be returning a JSON response but not valid JSON. :( I'll try and find a work around for this!

fletom commented

2013-09-25 23:13:45 -07:00

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Thanks for looking into it! Much appreciated.

michaelhelmick commented

2013-10-25 11:46:16 -07:00

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Sorry I haven't got around to fixing it. I will try within the next couple weeks. Just have been really overhauled lately!

michaelhelmick commented

2013-10-26 16:05:12 -07:00

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@fletom Manage to find some time to fix this up for you. Will be available in the next version of Twython! Again, sorry for taking so long

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