Could not authenticate you on destroy_direct_message

[Guirec Corbel]

I'm trying to destroy a direct message just with client.destroy_direct_message(123). It was working with Twitter 6.2.0 but not with the latest version. It produces the error Twitter::Error::Unauthorized: Could not authenticate you.

I inspected a bit and

• Twitter::Rest::DirectMessages#destroy_direct_message, the value of id is "123" - normal
• Twitter::Rest::Utils#perform_requests, ids is the hash { id: 123 } and an array is expected.
• Twitter::Rest::Utils#perform_request, options is {:id=>[:id, 1825785544]}

The solution is probably to change Twitter::Rest::DirectMessages#destroy_direct_message and give an array. What I don't understand (I didn't inspect deeply) is why specs are working.

Do you confirm there is a bug? I will open an MR for that.

[Manuel Nader]

Hello,

I'm having the same problem. I understand the PR has been merged, but it hasn't been released, right? (I'm using twitter (7.0.0) and I'm having the issue)

[Manuel Nader]

In case it helps,
here's evidence that the bug is present:

1] pry(#<Filter>)> id = msg.dig('id')    
=> "1325608100544602111"
[2] pry(#<Filter>)> id = msg.dig('id').to_i    
=> 1325608100544602111
[3] pry(#<Filter>)> @client.destroy_direct_message(id)    
Twitter::Error::Unauthorized: Could not authenticate you.
from /home/developer/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.5/gems/twitter-7.0.0/lib/twitter/rest/request.rb:97:in `fail_or_return_response_body'
[4] pry(#<Filter>)> @client
=> #<Twitter::REST::Client:0x000055f98a109c88
 @access_token="xxx",
...
 @user_agent="TwitterRubyGem/7.0.0">
[5] pry(#<Filter>)> @client.class
=> Twitter::REST::Client
[6] pry(#<Filter>)> @client.settings # I have valid creds/tokens
=> #<Twitter::Settings:0x000055f98a155520
 @attrs=
  {:protected=>false,
...

[Manuel Nader]

If someone else is having this problem, I found a "hackish" way to get this done:
Twitter::REST::Request.new(@client, :delete, "/1.1/direct_messages/events/destroy.json?id=#{id}").perform