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/**
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Enric Ruiz, Ignasi Barrera
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 */

package com.rhymestore.twitter.util;

import twitter4j.HttpResponseCode;
import twitter4j.TwitterException;

/**
 * Utility methods to work with the Twitter API.
 * 
 * @author Ignasi Barrera
 */
public class TwitterUtils {
    /** Maximum length for the tweets. */
    public static final int MAX_TWEET_LENGTH = 140;

    /** The rate limit time window in minutes. */
    public static final int RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_MINUTES = 15;

    /** Number of APi calls allowed in the rate limit window. */
    public static final int RATE_LIMIT_API_CALLS_IN_WINDOW = 15;

    /** The error produced when attempting to send duplicate tweets. */
    public static final String DUPLICATE_TWEET_ERROR = "Status is a duplicate.";

    /**
     * Returns a valid tweet for the given sentence.
     * 
     * @param sentence The sentence to tweet.
     * @return The valid tweet.
     */
    public static String tweet(final String sentence) {
        return sentence.length() > MAX_TWEET_LENGTH ? sentence.substring(0, MAX_TWEET_LENGTH - 3) + "..."
                : sentence;
    }

    /**
     * Builds a reply to the given user.
     * 
     * @param user The user to reply.
     * @param tweet The tweet to send.
     * @return The reply tweet.
     */
    public static String reply(final String user, final String tweet) {
        return tweet("." + user(user) + " " + tweet);
    }

    /**
     * Builds Twitter user name.
     * 
     * @param user The user name.
     * @return The Twitter user name.
     */
    public static String user(final String user) {
        return user.startsWith("@") ? user : "@" + user;
    }

    /**
     * Checks if the exception cause is a duplicate tweet.
     * 
     * @param ex The exception to check.
     * @return Boolean indicating if the exception cause is a duplicate tweet.
     */
    public static boolean isDuplicateTweetError(final TwitterException ex) {
        return ex.getStatusCode() == HttpResponseCode.FORBIDDEN && ex.getMessage().contains(DUPLICATE_TWEET_ERROR);
    }
}