Add clear cache to force full reload of lane

[stuartlangridge]

If I block a Twitter user who has @mentioned me from another client (say, the Twitter website), that user's tweets are not removed from my Tweet Lanes @mentions timeline, even after refreshing. This means that if you get lots of misdirected @mentions (as I do, about 10 a day, because I have a short username: see http://kryogenix.org/days/2012/06/29/put-the-chocolate-on-the-moose) there's no way to clean up my @mentions timeline.

[BlythMeister]

The issue here is that tweetlanes stores tweets in multiple levels of cache to reduce data transfer and speed up useability.

When blocking in tweetlanes, we remove the selected tweets from all cache.

We could look at having a clear cache option added. This will have to be lane by lane.

I'll tag as a proposed enhancement. I've also altered the title a but, so it doesn't get lost.

[stuartlangridge]

A few other clients have a "clear cache" option. However, this isn't as nice as you'd think, because it means I have to go and dig through the settings to find the clear-cache button, and I need to do that ten times a day. It would be rather nicer if tweetlanes looked to see if my list of blocked users had changed, and if so acted as though those users were blocked in tweetlanes itself. (Also, I can't find how to block users in tweetlanes itself.)

[BlythMeister]

Block users in tweetlanes, select tweet, under menu is block. You can do multiple at once :-)

Not sure Twitter api allows us to get a list of blocked users.

It's on the backlog now. We will see what we can do.

[stuartlangridge]

Thank you for the tip on blocking! Twitter API to get a list of blocked users: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/blocks/ids

[BlythMeister]

Ahh nice.

As long as twitter4j supports too we are laughing.

Could look to make that call on app start and clear lane.

Will see what we can do :-)