Linkedin Share Api using tornado LinkedinMixin and JSON content - share

Question

I'm using tornado web server and to integrate linkedin in my application I'm using the LinkedinMixin class that I add to the framework from an unofficial code in github. All is working perfectly, but I would like to be able to use the share api
POST
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/shares
The linkedin API is in XML, this is the reason why it's sometimes difficult to integrate it in tornado
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/api-requests-json
I found this article which tell me to send
{
"contentType":"linkedin-html",
"body":"My Fancy Update"
}
to post an update but it sends me a HTTP 401: Unauthorized fetching http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/shares?...
I would like to know if someone knows another version of linkedinMixin that this one :
https://github.com/facebook/tornado/pull/236/files
And if someone could give me a complete example of share API using JSON
Thanks,

Answer 1

I should probably point out that I have no experience with the LinkedIn API or the Tornado webserver. I have done a lot of work with OAuth, JSON and XML though.
Judging by the class you mentioned, the
def linkedin_request(self, path, callback, access_token=None, post_args=None, **args):
does exactly what you want. No need to bother about requesting JSON, etc. It does it for you.
I haven't really analyzed the classes, but I'd assume that your callback would look something like :
import json
def callback(data):
# If data is a JSON string, parse it. (remove this if data is a dict)
data = json.loads(data)
# Do something with the data
print data
def makeRequest():
something.linkedin_request("/v1/people/~/shares", callback)
I hope that this pointed you in the right direction :-)