API Token Issues

sfeek at April 5th, 2017 11:31 — #1

I am using the Ruby Client code from Github.
My test program below logs in enough to get a Contact ID, but cannot do a PUT operation due to auth errors.
Do I have to authenticate differently to PUT instead of GET?
Do I have to relogin for each request?
Do I have to do something with the params portion of the .put method?
Does the PUT method of the Ruby Client have a bug?

I have included the output as well. I even output the URL string for the PUT operation to prove that it performed the GET properly to acquire the Contact ID. I verified it via the Web Browser API

Any suggestions?

Ruby Code:

require './ruby-client/lib/onepageapi'
require 'json'

apiconnection = OnePageAPI.new("my username", "mypassword") # Create the connection

apiconnection.login # Login

jobj=apiconnection.get("contacts.json") # Create a json object of the list of contacts

id = jobj["data"]["contacts"][0]["contact"]["id"] # Get the Contact ID of the first contact

urlstring = "contacts/#{id}.json?partial=1&first_name=Shane" # New url string to change the first name to Shane

puts urlstring # Show the url on the screen

puts JSON.pretty_generate(apiconnection.put(urlstring)) # Do a PUT operation to update the contact info, showing results to th$

apiconnection.logout # logout

Output:

contacts/58e3f456efa9dd1617757585.json?partial=1&first_name=Shane
{
  "status": 400,
  "message": "Invalid auth token",
  "error_name": "invalid_auth_token",
  "error_message": "Authorization token is invalid",
  "errors": {
  }
}

liam at April 5th, 2017 11:54 — #2

Hi Shane,

You will need to send the PUT/POST params as a post body, not a query string. Pass a hash as the second param to the put method

  urlstring = "contacts/#{id}.json?partial=1"
 apiconnection.put(urlString, {first_name: 'Shane'})

The ruby-client is working fine for me, so this will probably fix it for you.

Kind regards,
Liam

sfeek at April 5th, 2017 11:58 — #3

I figured it out. Appears that the older Ruby Client does not work so well. I installed the OnePageCRM gem and the following code works fine.

require 'onepagecrm'
require 'json'

apiconnection = OnePageCRM.new("my user name", "my password") # Create the connection

jobj=apiconnection.get("contacts.json") # Create a json object of the list of contacts

id = jobj["data"]["contacts"][0]["contact"]["id"] # Get the Contact ID of the first contact

urlstring = "contacts/#{id}.json?partial=1" # New url string to do a partial update

puts urlstring # Show the URL on the screen

puts apiconnection.put(urlstring,{'first_name':'Shane'})["message"] # Do a PUT operation to update the contact info and show status