What's my name? (getScreenName)

[jjd]

Hi.

What's my screen name? Seems like an easy question, but I'm having
trouble with it.

I authenticate with jtwitter by creating a Twitter using Twitter(null,
oauthClient). The oauthClient is properly initialized with a access
token and access token secret.

The documentation for the Twitter constructor says that username first
argument can be null.

If I subsequently call Twitter.getScreenName() (which is documented as
"Login name of the authenticating user, or null if not set.") I get a
result of null.

Is there a way to get the authenticated user's screenname if I don't
have it in the first place?

--Jim--

[Daniel Winterstein]

Hi Jim,

Not a bad question at all. If you don't know the username, but you do
have an oauth token, you can use:
User user = new TwitterAccount(jtwitter).verifyCredentials()
to fetch information on the user.
Why doesn't this happen automatically? Because it involves a call to Twitter.
Best regards,
- Daniel

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[jjd]

Thanks, Daniel!