RoyalMailApi

Wrapper for Royal Mail's SOAP API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'royal_mail_api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install royal_mail_api

Usage

in initializers/royal_mail_api.rb

  RoyalMailApi::Client.configure do |config|
    config.application_id = 'your Royal Mail application id'
    config.username = 'your Royal Mail username'
    config.password = 'your Royal Mail password'
    config.client_id = 'your royal mail app's client_id (register an application at https://developer.royalmail.net)'
    config.client_secret = 'your royal mail app's client_secret'
    config.shipping_wsdl = 'path to your shipping api wsdl file'
    config.tracking_wsdl = 'path to your tracking api wsdl file'
    config.shipping_endpoint = 'https://api.royalmail.net/shipping/v2'
    config.tracking_endpoint = 'https://api.royalmail.net/tracking'
    config.adapter = library used for http requests (eg. httpclient, excon)
    config.logger = however you wish to log (Logger.new(STDOUT), Rails.logger etc)
  end

to make a request

  RoyalMailApi::RequestHandler.request(type, attrs)

types:

create_shipment

  attrs = {
    transaction_id: unique identifier, preferably the id of the delivery in your system,
    shipping_date: format ('%Y-%m-%d'),
    user_name: '',
    email: '',
    address_line1: '',
    post_town: '',
    post_code: '',
    weight: weight of letter/parcel,
    country_code: addressee's number's country code,
    telephone_number: ''
  }

  RoyalMailApi::RequestHandler.request(:create_shipment, attrs)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/royal_mail_api/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

config adapter

To make sure that savon can make the requests you may have to install another library to use as an adapter:

savonrb/savon#679 savonrb/savon#491 savonrb/savon#297

This is a consistent issue, so best to play around.