WIP: enhancement/670-TweetPostAuthor

[saamerm]

THIS PR IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, DO NOT MERGE

• PR for Tag post author in tweet #670
• Updated the preview item's Title so that it includes the twitter handle
• Since IFTTT is connected directly, it takes the Title value and automatically posts it on Twitter
• I added a check that only adds the twitter handle if it is populated and contains a value

[lothrop]

I like it! Is there a chance to see how it will look in Twitter without pushing to prod?

[saamerm]

If you look at this tweet: https://twitter.com/PlanetXamarin/status/1284977181563781122

Instead of this:

Generating beautiful frames for your iOS & Android screenshots instantly https://ift.tt/3jmh0hK #Xamarin

In theory, if IFTTT is setup the way I think it is, it will start looking like this:

Generating beautiful frames for your iOS & Android screenshots instantly, by @saamerm https://ift.tt/3jmh0hK #Xamarin

[Cheesebaron]

No it won't. This only changes how it looks on https://www.planetxamarin.com/preview and not the RSS feed itself.

[saamerm]

@Cheesebaron how would i be able to change what is sent to the RSS feed?

[Cheesebaron]

You probably need to change the SyndicationItems here https://github.com/planetxamarin/planetxamarin/blob/master/src/Firehose.Web/Infrastructure/NewCombinedFeedSource.cs#L164

[jamesmontemagno]

What it they don't have a twitter account?

[saamerm]

@jamesmontemagno If they don't have an author name or a twitter account, we'll just ignore it for now.
@Cheesebaron After the var feed = new SyndicationFeed(...){...}; line, I was able to add a foreach(var item in feed.Items){} and in there I can get the Title & Name string using item.Title.Text & item.Authors[0].Name. But the problem is that these properties are read-only.
The only way to update the Title to include the twitter handle is using item.Title.WriteTo()
I can figure out a way to get the twitter handle by comparing the Name to our list of names, but do you know how we can use the WriteTo to update the value without creating a new RSS feed?
I have added a question to StackOverflow as well.

[saamerm]

We might be in business thanks to the Highest DotNet contributor on StackOverflow! I added this code after line 184 of NewCombinedFeedSource & I was able to update the RSS feed that is used by IFTTT:

foreach (var item in feed.Items)
{
    string newTitleText = item.Title.Text + "SAAMER";

    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(item.Title.Type))
    {
        string type = item.Title.Type == "text" ? "Plaintext" : item.Title.Type;
        TextSyndicationContentKind textKind = (TextSyndicationContentKind)
            Enum.Parse(typeof(TextSyndicationContentKind), type, ignoreCase: true);
        item.Title = new TextSyndicationContent(newTitleText, textKind);
    }
    else
    {
        item.Title = new TextSyndicationContent(newTitleText);
    }
}

I just need to update "SAAMER" to conditionally add the twitter handles instead if the names match our authors.

[saamerm]

Alright, maybe we should close this since the final approach was different from what I took in #721, and it's also quite messy