Volusion API - Ruby Client

This library provides a wrapper around the Volusion REST API for use within Ruby apps or via the console.

Note

**

• Volusion api will allow only one request of an api call. Afterwards, a reset action should by done in the admin panel However, currently when using api calls with a "WHERE" clause, the calls are re-usable **

Requirements

• Ruby 1.8.7+
• Rubygems
• multi_xml

To connect to the API, you need the following credentials:

• volusion store domain
• Username of an authorized admin user of the store
• encrypted password for the above admin user

#Important: Admin password is changed every 90 days, resulting in the need to change the encrypted password for the api authentication

Installation

Download the lib folder and copy it to a path accessible within your app, or install the package directly from Rubygems:

gem install volusion

Configuration

To use the API client in your Ruby code, provide the required credentials as follows:

require 'volusion'

api = Volusion::Api.new({
	:store_url => "http://store.myvolusionstore.com",
	:username  => "admin",
	:encrypted_password   => "d81aada4c19c34d913e18f07fd7f36ca"
})

Connecting to the store

Ping: the ping method allows to check that your configuration is working and you can connect successfully to the store:

api.ping

will raise a Volusion::Error:InvalidCredentials Exception when credentials are wrong

Usage

The supports the following exports:

1. get_products
2. get_orders
3. get_customers

each of the above functions receives hash with the following optional values:

1. select_fields - an array or a comma separated string of Volusion available select fields
2. conditions - an hash (one element, since for now Volusion supports only one condition per request) with the Volusion field as a key and the wanted value as the hash value

For Example:

$ irb
>
> api = Volsuion::Api.new(...)
>
> api.get_products({:select_fields => ['p.ProductID', 'p.ProductName'], :conditions => {:p.ProductID => 2}})
>
>

will result in returning the product id and name of product with id 2 #By default each request will return all available fields