Class: Daylife::API

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/daylife/base.rb

Overview

DayPI 101: developer.daylife.com/docs/DayPI101

The DayPI call responses include codes indicating success or failure as well as a message with some explanation or helpful tip in cases of failure. For acurrent list of response/error codes and messages, see developer.daylife.com/docs/Response_Error_Codes

Sample Usage

Daylife.authenticate('8befa1cf0a7c0291613242235638a662', '2e548ef751397c653752057adcff0c9f')
articles = Daylife::Article.get_related_articles('03cV5zI2fk03s')

Direct Known Subclasses

Article, Image, Quote, Search, Source, Topic

Constant Summary collapse

@@auth = 
{ :accesskey => '', :shared_secret => '' }

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(props = {}) ⇒ API

Returns a new instance of API.



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# File 'lib/daylife/base.rb', line 35

def initialize(props={})
  props.each do |key, val|
    setter = "#{key}=".intern
    self.send setter, val if respond_to? setter
  end
end

Class Method Details

.auth ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/daylife/base.rb', line 42

def self.auth
  @@auth
end

.get(method, parameters = {}) ⇒ Object

Make a get request to the input method with a parameters hash. Returbs an instanceor list of instances of API objects.

Article.get :get_topics, :article_id => 03cV5zI2fk03s

Generates the request:

article_getTopics?accesskey=<accesskey>&signature=<signature>&article_id=03cV5zI2fk03s



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# File 'lib/daylife/base.rb', line 54

def self.get(method, parameters={})
  parameters = @@auth.merge(parameters)
  resp = Request.new(methodize(method)).get(parameters)
  resp.parse
end

.methodize(method) ⇒ Object

Creates a Daylife style method name from a symbol.

Article.methodize :get_topics #=> "article_getTopics"



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# File 'lib/daylife/base.rb', line 62

def self.methodize(method)
  "#{name.split('::').last.downcase}_#{method.to_s.gsub(/_([a-z])/) { $1.upcase }}"
end