Sensing Architecture - Twitter adapter

Twitter adapter for the Sensing Architecture developed in the ProaSense project.

Requirements

• Java 1.7 or above
• Maven

Requirements for twitter account:

• Auth consumer key
• Consumer secret
• Access token
• Access token secret
• Information on how to obtain these tokens can be accessed from this site: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/faq

Parameters of the property file

• proasense.adapter.base.publish: values for this parameter are, true for publishing the sompleEvents og false for not publishing those events.
• proasense.adapter.twitter.hashtag: word user want to search by, example #Norway.
• proasense.adapter.twitter.time: time-interval for scanning tweets.

Setup

After aquiring information above, nothing more is needed for setup.

Folder structure

• There are two folder in this adapter, those are: twitter-base: Abstract class to support running the program in next module. twitter-example: Contains the code for the program.

User guide

• cd to proasense-adapter-twitter
• use command "mvn clean install"
• "mvn exec:java" *The program will search for the hashtag defined in the property file and make continues poll on interval defined in the property file.

Test data

There is no test-data for this adapter.