From 15c0345c792a80c9f4a88fa19b7ec3a3e2596fdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Buch <dan@meatballhat.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:22:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] using Json.NET to parse the user timeline

---
 .gitignore                                           |  1 +
 .../TwitterPractice/Controllers/HomeController.cs    | 12 +++++-------
 .../TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice.csproj           |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b68fdbc..0a224c5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 *.dll
 *.pdb
 
+TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/bin
 TwitterPractice/bin/EntityFramework.xml
diff --git a/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/Controllers/HomeController.cs b/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/Controllers/HomeController.cs
index 685fef1..0f0a034 100644
--- a/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/Controllers/HomeController.cs
+++ b/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/Controllers/HomeController.cs
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Collections.Specialized;
 using System.Configuration;
-using System.Linq;
 using System.Net;
-using System.Web;
 using System.Web.Mvc;
+using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
+
 
 namespace TwitterPractice.Controllers
 {
@@ -29,16 +27,16 @@ namespace TwitterPractice.Controllers
             {
                 username = "meatballhat";
             }
-            ViewBag.UserTimeline = GetTwitterStream(username).Replace("\",", "\",\n");
+            ViewBag.UserTimeline = GetTwitterStream(username);
             ViewBag.Username = username;
             return View();
         }
 
-        private string GetTwitterStream(string username="meatballhat")
+        private JArray GetTwitterStream(string username="meatballhat")
         {
             string requestUrl = String.Format(requestTemplate, username);
             WebClient req = new WebClient();
-            return req.DownloadString(requestUrl);
+            return JArray.Parse(req.DownloadString(requestUrl));
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice.csproj b/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice.csproj
index fdfd32d..47cbf53 100644
--- a/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice.csproj
+++ b/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice/TwitterPractice.csproj
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@
     <Content Include="Scripts\jquery.validate.min.js" />
     <Content Include="Scripts\modernizr-1.7.js" />
     <Content Include="Scripts\modernizr-1.7.min.js" />
-    <Content Include="Web.config" />
+    <Content Include="Web.config">
+      <SubType>Designer</SubType>
+    </Content>
     <Content Include="Web.Debug.config">
       <DependentUpon>Web.config</DependentUpon>
     </Content>