Initializes a new instance of the SocialNetwork class

WARNING: Developers never call this method!!! It is used by advanced derived implementations that need to synchronize status updates. We do not want to make statuslock protected as it is almost never needed, hence this accessor

Allows to abort unsuccessful DoStart() overridden implementation. This method must be called from within DoStart()

Accepts a visit of a manager entity - this call is useful for periodic updates of service status, i.e. when service does not have a thread of its own it can be periodically managed by some other service through this method. The default implementation of DoAcceptManagerVisit(object, DateTime) does nothing

Non-blocking call that returns true when the service instance has completely stopped after SignalStop()

Checks for service activity and throws exception if service is not in ControlStatus.Active state

Checks for service activity and throws exception if service is not in ControlStatus.Active state

Checks for service inactivity and throws exception if service is running (started, starting or stopping)

Configures service from configuration node (and possibly it's sub-nodes)

Create an instance of social user info class. If parameters are null then creates new non-logged-in instance, otherwise, if parameters are set, then connects to network and tries to re-initializes SocialUser info with fresh data from the network (i.e. name, gender etc.) using the supplied net tokens, or throws if tokens are invalid (i.e. expired). This returned instance is usually stored in session for later use

Deterministically disposes object. DO NOT OVERRIDE this method, override Destructor() instead

Provides implementation for checking whether the service has completely stopped

Provides implementation that configures service from configuration node (and possibly it's sub-nodes)

Provides implementation that signals service to stop. This is expected not to block

Checks to see whether object dispose started or has already been disposed and throws an exception if Dispose() was called

Gets external parameter value returning true if parameter was found

Returns named parameters that can be used to control this component

Sets external parameter value returning true if parameter was found and set

Returns href to login via social system/site

Returns user profile image or null if no image available. Picture kind specifies classification of pictures within profile i.e. "main", "small-icon" etc.

Returns user profile image data along with content type or null if no image available. Picture kind specifies classification of pictures within profile i.e. "main", "small-icon" etc.

Returns social service login URL for "two-stage" login networks. Currently twitter only requires this

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Returns true if the user agent represents a robot from any known social net

Returns true if the user agent represents a robot from the specified social net

Converts localized time to UTC time as of TimeLocation property

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Fills user info with values from social network

Post message to social network

Refreshes long term tokens (if provider needs them). Should be used in scenario like background server-side token renew routine

Retrieves all user fields (e.g. screen name, email) but tokens.

Non-blocking call that initiates the stopping of the service

Blocking call that starts the service instance

Blocking call that starts the service instance

Converts universal time to local time as of TimeLocation property

Blocks execution of current thread until this service has completely stopped

Try to convert .NET native object type to corresponding Erlang term. Throw exception if conversion is not possible

Try to convert .NET native object type to corresponding Erlang term of given type. Throw exception if conversion is not possible

Serializes object into JSON string

Serializes object into JSON format using provided TextWriter

Serializes object into JSON format using provided stream and optional encoding

Checks whether the class is decorated with ApplicationDontAutoStartServiceAttribute

Defines if a meeesage can be post to this social network

Returns process/instance unique app component system id

Returns local computer time of component start (not from application container time)

Specifies how service takes user credentials

Provides social network description, this default implementation returns the name of the class

Indicates whether this object was already disposed - the Dispose() has finished

Indicates whether this object Dispose() has been called and dispose started but not finished yet

Returns named parameters that can be used to control this component

Globally uniquelly identifies social network architype

Returns the read-only registry of social networks currently activated

Implements IInstrumentable

Sets if pipelining should be used for web request

Returns current time localized per TimeLocation

Provides textual name for the service

Sets keepalive option for web request

Specifies if this provider requires to obtain temporary token before redirecting to social network login page. Currently only Twitter requires this routine

Returns true when service is active or about to become active. Check in service implementation loops/threads/tasks

Returns the root public URL for the service

Current service status

Returns time location of this LocalizedTimeProvider implementation

Sets timeout for calls to external service that imlements this social network