adaptive function for the new string IDs for Twitter API objects (Snowflake)

snowflakeadapter.js

// adaptive function for the new string IDs for Twitter API objects (Snowflake)
function useStringIdentifier(obj, property) {
  var property_str = property + "_str";
  if (!obj) {
   return;
  }

  if (obj[property_str]) {
    obj[property] = obj[property_str].toString();
    delete obj[property_str];
  } else if (obj[property]) {
    obj[property] = obj[property].toString();
  }
}

// example usage
getTweetsFromAjax(function(tweets) {
  for (var i = 0; i < tweets.length; i++) {
    useStringIdentifier(tweets[i], "id");
    useStringIdentifier(tweets[i], "in_reply_to_status_id");
  }

  // do whatever with the tweets
});