Specifying since_id w/o max_id for getUserTimeline in Spring Social Twitter

Question

D ear community,

according to Twitter's guidelines on working with timelines it's recommended an application's first request to collect a full timeline omits the max_id parameter (see https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelines#the-max-id-parameter).

Now assume I have already collected a user's timeline in the past and stored the tweets in my database. Upon revisiting a timeline to gather new tweets I should be able to specify since_id in the first request based on my existing data.

Unfortunately I can't figure out how to accomplish this using Spring Social Twitter and the methods contained in TimelineOperations. There are only methods available which accept both since_id and max_id or neither.

I tried passing Long.MAX_VALUE as max_id which causes a org.springframework.social.InternalServerErrorException and passing null is not an option because the method's parameter is of type long instead of Long.

tl;dr: How can I request a timeline while specifying since_id without specifying max_id using Spring Social Twitter?

Answer 1

Passing 0 in place of max_id should do the work.