0000452: api/statuses/user_timeline returns wrong user records

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(0000688) max.weller (reporter) 2012-06-13 12:57	...I wanted to attach this image, it's a screenshot of my Friendica For Android app I'm developing, where I encountered the bug: http://frnd.tk/photos/mw/image/eb032aef5403a364d90749000acaed5a/ [^] ...but the bug tracker only offers the uploaded file to download, not to view

(0000689) macgirvin (administrator) 2012-06-13 15:56	This is where the differences between network models starts to cause issues with the API. In this case user_id=7 may live on another system. The site from which you are making the query does not know who the friends are of user_id=7 and what their ids are, and even if it did, they could have duplicate ids from users on this system. Then the real killer is that user_id=7 could be an Email contact or RSS feed or Facebook member. We may not have any way to query who their friends are, or even be assured that their friends have anything resembling "ids". In our standard feeds we provide the author name, url, and photo. I'm not certain how this has been mapped to the API. The author URL is the closest thing we have to an ID, but one must usually take into account subtle differences such as http/https and the presence or lack of 'www.' I don't have a good resolution, just enumerating the issues for anybody who wishes to take this on. Perhaps we should extend the concept of "user_id" to accept a URL; though this could cause confusion and create bugs for normal Twitter client apps. Viewing streams of others should probably be done by opening a web browser and visiting the URL, since API applications aren't likely to be able to negotiate authentication protocols for all the networks that Friendica may be able to internally. In the case of email, this will probably fail completely; though I believe the profile URL in this case goes to the top of their email domain and could be duplicated.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-06-13 12:54	max.weller	New Issue
2012-06-13 12:54	max.weller	File Added: eb032aef5403a364d90749000acaed5a-1[1].jpg_f=&_u=120613075454
2012-06-13 12:55	max.weller	File Added: eb032aef5403a364d90749000acaed5a-0[1].jpg
2012-06-13 12:57	max.weller	Note Added: 0000688
2012-06-13 15:56	macgirvin	Note Added: 0000689

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