Repost works

mitterlib/network/twitter.py

@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ class TwitterNetworkData(NetworkData):
 
         # Twitter encodes a lot of HTML entities, which are not good when
         # you want to *display* then (e.g., "<" returns to us as "&lt;").
-        # So we convert this here.
+        # So we convert this here. Interfaces need to worry about converting
+        # them if it becomes a problem.
         self.message = _unhtml(data['text'])
 
         return
@@ -405,8 +406,9 @@ class Connection(NetworkBase):
 
     def repost(self, message):
         """Repost a message."""
-        body = {'id': message.id}   # Force a body to make it a POST.
-        data = self._request('/statuses/retweet.json', body=body)
+        body = urllib.urlencode({'id': message.id})
+        resource = '/statuses/retweet/%d.json' % (message.id)
+        data = self._request(resource, body=body)
         return TwitterNetworkData(data)
 
     def delete_message(self, message):
@@ -435,4 +437,4 @@ class Connection(NetworkBase):
     def can_repost(self, message):
         """Twitter ignores retweets from the user."""
         return not (message.username ==
-                self._options[self.NAMESPACE]['username'])
+                self._options[self.NAMESPACE]['username'])

mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py

@@ -638,12 +638,6 @@ class Interface(object):
         self._reply_label.set_text('')
         return
 
-    def _clear_repost(self):
-        """Clear the info about a repost."""
-        self._repost_message_id = None
-        self._reply_label.set_text('')
-        return
-
     # ------------------------------------------------------------
     # Widget callback functions
     # ------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -683,7 +677,6 @@ class Interface(object):
 
         self._delete_iter = None
         self._clear_reply()
-        self._clear_repost()
 
         return
 
@@ -882,7 +875,6 @@ class Interface(object):
         self._clear_text(None)
         self._update_statusbar('Your status was updated.')
         self._clear_reply()
-        self._clear_repost()
         return
 
     def _exception_update_status(self, widget, exception):
@@ -954,7 +946,6 @@ class Interface(object):
         # interthread communication.
         self._delete_iter = None
         self._reply_message_id = None
-        self._repost_message_id = None
 
         return