EZApi

EZApi makes interfacing with third party APIs easy! EZApi handles network requests, responses, and serializes the object into an easy to use ruby object. Standard RESTful actions are included out of the box and you can easily add custom actions.

Usage

Install the gem

gem 'ezapi'

Define your API client & models

module ThirdPartyApp
  extend EZApi::Client

  api_url 'http://www.example.com/api/' # => / at the end is required
  api_key 'XXXXXX' # => required


  class User < EZApi::ObjectBase
    path 'foo' # => to create custom path. Defaults to 'users' in this case
    actions [:show, :create, :delete, :update, :index] # => Included RESTful actions
  end
end

Now we can call http://www.example.com/api/users endpoints

begin
  user = ThirdPartyApp::User.show('123')
  user.first_name # => returns first_name json field
  user.first_name = 'new name'
  user.save

  ThirdPartyApp::User.delete('123')
  ThirdPartyApp::User.update({first_name: 'Name'})
  ThirdPartyApp::User.index({page: 1})
rescue EZApiError => e
  print(e.message)
end

Custom actions

There are two ways of adding custom actions that are not in the included rest

module ThirdPartyApp
  class User < EZApi::ObjectBase
    # For class methods
    def self.custom_action
      response = client.get("#{api_path}/custom_action")
      # Do whatever you want with the response
    end

    # for instance methods
    def custom_instance_action
      response = self.class.client.get("#{self.class.api_path}/custom_action")
      # Do whatever you want with the response
    end
  end
end


ThirdPartyApp::User.custom_action
ThirdPartyApp::User.new.custom_instance_action

Add custom actions to actions array

module ThirdPartyApp
  module Actions
    module MyCustomAction
      # For instance methods
      def my_custom_action
        # Do Something
      end

      # For class methods
      module ClassMethods
        def my_custom_class_action
          # do something
        end
      end

      def self.included(base)
        base.extend(ClassMethods)
      end
    end
  end
end

module ThirdPartyApp
  class User < EZApi::ObjectBase
    actions [:my_custom_action]
  end
end

You can even override the include REST actions using this method

ezapi

Development

Runtime

EZApi

Usage

Custom actions

Add custom actions to actions array