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class Twitter::Client
  @@STATUS_URIS = {
  	:get => '/statuses/show.json',
  	:post => '/statuses/update.json',
  	:delete => '/statuses/destroy.json',
  }
  
  # Provides access to individual statuses via Twitter's Status APIs
  # 
  # <tt>action</tt> can be of the following values:
  # * <tt>:get</tt> to retrieve status content.  Assumes <tt>value</tt> given responds to :to_i message in meaningful way to yield intended status id.
  # * <tt>:post</tt> to publish a new status
  # * <tt>:delete</tt> to remove an existing status.  Assumes <tt>value</tt> given responds to :to_i message in meaningful way to yield intended status id.
  # 
  # <tt>value</tt> should be set to:
  # * the status identifier for <tt>:get</tt> case
  # * the status text message for <tt>:post</tt> case
  # * none necessary for <tt>:delete</tt> case
  # 
  # Examples:
  #  twitter.status(:get, 107786772)
  #  twitter.status(:post, "New Ruby open source project Twitter4R version 0.2.0 released.")
  #  twitter.status(:delete, 107790712)
  # 
  def status(action, value)
    return nil unless value
  	uri = @@STATUS_URIS[action]
  	response = nil
    case action
    when :get
    	response = http_connect {|conn|	create_http_get_request(uri, :id => value.to_i) }
    when :post
    	response = http_connect({:status => value}.to_http_str) {|conn| create_http_post_request(uri) }
    when :delete
    	response = http_connect {|conn| create_http_delete_request(uri, :id => value.to_i) }
    end
    bless_model(Twitter::Status.unmarshal(response.body))
  end
end

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Version	Path
twitter4r-0.2.0	lib/twitter/client/status.rb