It will be a hash with 'ids' as one of the elements.
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:26, Dewald Pretorius<dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> For non-paged calls, will the result set be [1,2,3,...] or will it be
> {ids: [1,2,3]} ?
>
> Dewald
>
> On Jul 31, 3:03 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
>> To clarify, since several people have asked: this pending change does
>> NOT mean that pagination is required. You can still attempt to
>> retrieve all IDs in one call, but be aware that this is likely to time
>> out or fail for users with large social graphs.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:35, Alex Payne<a...@twitter.com> wrote:
>> > The Twitter API currently has two methods for returning a user's
>> > denormalized "social graph": /friends/ids [1] and /followers/ids [2].
>> > These methods presently allow pagination by use of a "?page=n"
>> > parameter; without that parameter, they attempt to return all user IDs
>> > in the specified set. If you've used this methods, particularly for
>> > exploring the social graphs of users that are following or followed by
>> > a large number of other users, you've probably run into lag and server
>> > errors.
>>
>> > In two weeks, we'll be addressing this with a change in back-end
>> > infrastructure. The "page" parameter will be replaced with a "cursor"
>> > parameter, which in turn will result in a change in the response
>> > bodies for these two methods. Whereas currently you'd receive an array
>> > response like this (in JSON):
>>
>> > [1,2,3,...]
>>
>> > You will now receive:
>>
>> > {ids: [1,2,3], next_id: 1231232}
>>
>> > You can then use the "next_id" value to paginate through the set:
>>
>> > /followers/ids.json?cursor=1231232
>>
>> > To "start" paginating:
>>
>> > /followers/ids.json?cursor=-1
>>
>> > The negative one (-1) indicates that you want to begin paginating.
>> > When the next_id value is zero (0), you're at the last page.
>>
>> > Documentation of the new functionality will, of course, be provided on
>> > the API Wiki in advance of the change going live. If you have any
>> > questions or concerns, please contact us as soon as possible.
>>
>> > [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friends%C2%A0ids
>> > [2] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-followers%C2%A0ids
>>
>> > --
>> > Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc.
>> >http://twitter.com/al3x
>>
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