status.getText() does not give proper HTML - twitter

Question

I am using java and twitter4j.
Issue : I do not get proper response from status.getText() method, link references comes as text
I have a problem. My method is as follow:
Twitter twitter = null;
String userName = "clientname";
int numberOfTweets = 0;
StringBuilder timeLineText = new StringBuilder();
try {
twitter = new TwitterFactory(new GetAuthenticConfiguration().getConfigObject()).getInstance();
ResponseList<Status> statuses = twitter.getUserTimeline(userName);
timeLineText.append("<li>");
for (Status status : statuses) {
numberOfTweets++;
if (numberOfTweets > 12) {
break;
}
int remainder = numberOfTweets % 3;
if (remainder == 0) {
timeLineText.append("</li><li>");
} else {
StringBuilder tempText = new StringBuilder();
try {
tempText.append("<p>");
tempText.append("<span>");
tempText.append("<img alt=\"" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + "\" src=\"" + status.getUser().getMiniProfileImageURL() + "\" />");
tempText.append("<b>" + status.getUser().getName() + "</b> #" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + " " + new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM").format(status.getCreatedAt()));
tempText.append("</span>");
tempText.append("<p>" + status.getText() + "</p>");
tempText.append("</p>");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
timeLineText.append(tempText);
}
}
timeLineText.append("</li>");
} catch (Exception te) {
System.out.println(te);
}
The response i get is :
Can you tell us which Rolls-Royce #engine powers this aircraft? #AvGeek http://t.co/t5tNXQuMFB
instead of
Can you tell us which Rolls-Royce <a href="/hashtag/engine?src=hash" data-query-source="hashtag_click" class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr" ><s>#</s><b>engine</b></a> powers this aircraft? <a href="/hashtag/AvGeek?src=hash" data-query-source="hashtag_click" class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr" ><s>#</s><b>AvGeek</b></a> <a href="http://t.co/t5tNXQuMFB" class="twitter-timeline-link u-isHiddenVisually" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" >pic.twitter.com/t5tNXQuMFB</a>
The issue is I am not getting the proper html . Can anyone tell me the reason of it please?

Answer 1

After doing lot of R & D, I have found out that Status.getText() method gives only plain text.
We have to manually convert it to links,hashtags and users.
Below is the method I have written to do that.
Just pass your getText() output to this method (tweet).
I hope this will help to many beginners of Twitter4J.
private String linkifyTweet(String tweet) {
Pattern pattern;
Matcher matcher;
String regex_url = "((https?://\\S+)|(www.\\S+))";
String regex_hashtag = "#(\\w+)";
String regex_user = "#(\\w+)";
//regex to apply links to all urls in the tweet
pattern = Pattern.compile(regex_url);
matcher = pattern.matcher(tweet);
if (matcher.find()) {
tweet = tweet.replaceAll(regex_url, "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$1\">$1</a>");
}
//regex to apply links to all hashtags in the tweet
pattern = Pattern.compile(regex_hashtag);
matcher = pattern.matcher(tweet);
if (matcher.find()) {
tweet = tweet.replaceAll(regex_hashtag, "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.twitter.com/hashtag/$1?src=hash\">#$1</a>");
}
//regex to apply links to all users in the tweet
pattern = Pattern.compile(regex_user);
matcher = pattern.matcher(tweet);
if (matcher.find()) {
tweet = tweet.replaceAll(regex_user, "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.twitter.com/$1\">#$1</a>");
}
//System.out.println(tweet);
return tweet;
}