Forbidden or Bad Request on friend call

[Matt Topper]

I've been trying for a few hours now to get the friend requests
working with twitter4r. My call is pretty simple

friend = 'topperge'
api = Twitter::Client.new( :login => username, :password => password)
api.friend(:add, friend)

If I use 0.3.0 I get a Bad Request message back and using the
development 0.3.1 I get a Forbidden error back from twitter.

All my replies and normal status changes work successfully, just
nothing on the friend api. I've also checked my rate limits and have
plenty.

Matt

[SP]

Hi Matt,

The responses you are getting are because the user you are executing
as is already a friend of 'topperge'. I have this on the todo list to
raise a more appropriate exception instead of a Forbidden.

If you do the following around friend(:add, ...) or friend(:remove,
....) calls on the client you can cater for these cases:

begin
client.friend(:add, supposed_new_friend)
rescue Twitter::RESTError => re
unless re.code == "403"
# put code to handle case where Forbidden error is not raised
because you probably shouldn't ignore that case
end
end

The same is true when you are trying to do a friend(:remove, ....) on
a username that you are not already friends with. Right now Twitter4R
library only returns exactly what the Twitter.com API returns, but as
I said earlier this is on the todo list to for me to tidy up the
library after I reorganize the code a little.

Thanks and hope this helps and explains the issue,
Susan