How to allow anonymous twitter connections in an MVC configuration

Question

Using - spring-social 1.1.4 - spring-social-twitter 1.1.2 - spring-mvc-4.2 - on tomcat 7

Below is my tomcat config for my MVC Application including twitter set

Answer 1

I see that you have twitterTemplate bean configured, if you are able to use it in the application you won't need to do anything else.

Use TwitterTemplate instead of Twitter. TwitterTemplate implements Twitter interface, so all methods are available.

Examples:

//1. Search Twitter
SearchResults results = twitterTemplate.searchOperations().search("#WinterIsComing");
List<Tweet> tweets = results.getTweets();
int i =0;
for (Tweet tweet : tweets) {
    System.out.println(tweet.getUser().getName() + " Tweeted : "+tweet.getText() + " from " + tweet.getUser().getLocation() 
            + " @ " + tweet.getCreatedAt() + tweet.getUser().getLocation()  );
}

//2. Search Place by GeoLocation        
RestTemplate restTemplate = twitterTemplate.getRestTemplate();
GeoTemplate geoTemplate = new GeoTemplate(restTemplate, true, true);
List<Place> place = geoTemplate.search(37.423021, -122.083739);
for (Place p : place) {
    System.out.println(p.getName() + " " + p.getCountry() + " "+p.getId());
}           

//3. Get Twitter UserProfile
TwitterProfile userProfile = twitterTemplate.userOperations().getUserProfile();
System.out.println(userProfile.getName()+" has " +userProfile.getFriendsCount() + " friends");

Using TwitterTemplate, users don't need to login. Hope this helps!