Twitter4j: Get list of replies for a certain tweet

Question

Is it possible to get a list of tweets that reply to a tweet (or to its replies) using twitter4j? The twitter website and Android app have this feature.

Answer 1

I found the way to do this in https://github.com/klinker24/Talon-for-Twitter and modified it a little

public ArrayList getDiscussion(Status status, Twitter twitter) {
    ArrayList replies = new ArrayList<>();

    ArrayList all = null;

    try {
        long id = status.getId();
        String screenname = status.getUser().getScreenName();

        Query query = new Query("@" + screenname + " since_id:" + id);

        System.out.println("query string: " + query.getQuery());

        try {
            query.setCount(100);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            // enlarge buffer error?
            query.setCount(30);
        }

        QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
        System.out.println("result: " + result.getTweets().size());

        all = new ArrayList();

        do {
            System.out.println("do loop repetition");

            List tweets = result.getTweets();

            for (Status tweet : tweets)
                if (tweet.getInReplyToStatusId() == id)
                    all.add(tweet);

            if (all.size() > 0) {
                for (int i = all.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                    replies.add(all.get(i));
                all.clear();
            }

            query = result.nextQuery();

            if (query != null)
                result = twitter.search(query);

        } while (query != null);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return replies;
}