Re-tweets and replies with JTwitter

I have not used Twitter enough to become familiar with its terminology or the way it works, so please help me in understanding the problem I have at hand.

I am getting last 20 status updates posted by some Twitter user via RSS feed, the feed XML is parsed and the statuses are displayed in a ListView. Which means that I have the original tweet in a String variable(row of ListView). When I click a ListView item, I get the option of "Re-tweeting" and "post reply".

As, I understand it, when re-tweeting I will have to just update my status as:

RT @orig-poster <original tweet>

and when posting a reply I will have to just update my status as:

@orig-poster <my tweet>

I skimmed through the JavaDocs of the Jwitter library(Twitter class) and found a setStatus(String) method. I dont think I will have to make use of retweet() or reply() functions of the Twitter class in JTwitter library.

Is my understanding correct? Please correct me if I am wrong here or missing anything.

Thanks!

Solution

Retweets and Replies are a bit more complex than simple syntax differences:

A reply has an in_reply_to_status_id field that indicates what Tweet (given by Tweet id) the submitted tweet is replying to (see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses%C2%A0update).
A retweet has two forms:
- An 'old style' retweet which prepends an RT to an original tweet
- A new sytle retweet, which calls a specific API endpoint with a Tweet id (see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-statuses-retweet).