BigCommerce::ManagementAPI

v3 API client for BigCommerce's REST Management API

Incomplete! v3 has many endpoints and this only provides what we need at ScreenStaring which currently is mostly customers and subscribers stuff but adding new endpoints should be trivial. See Adding New Endpoints.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "big_commerce-management_api"

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

gem install big_commerce-management_api

Usage

require "big_commerce/management_api"

bc = BigCommerce::ManagementAPI.new(store_hash, auth_token)
customers = bc.customers.get
customers = bc.customers.get(:id => [1,2,3], :include => %w[addresses formfields])

p customers.meta.pagination.total
p customers.headers.request_id
p customers.headers["some-header"]

# customers is Enumerable
customers.each do |customer|
  p customer.first_name
  p customer.addresses[0].address_type
  # ...
end

begin
  customers = bc.customers.get(:page => 2, :limit => 99) # limit defaults to 250
rescue BigCommerce::ManagementAPI::ResponseError => e
  p e.message
  p e.headers.rate_limit_requests_left
end

attribute = bc.customers.attributes.create(
  :name => "Daily screen-staring count",
  :type => "number"
)
p attribute.id
p attribute.meta.total # 1

Adding New Endpoints

1. Add JSON response body to lib/big_commerce/management/classes.json
2. Create or update lib/big_commerce/management/THE_RESOURCE.rb. See customers.rb for an example
3. For new classes
   • If the response JSON's top-level property is not "data" define RESULT_KEY with the name of the top-level property
   • Define RESULT_INSTANCE and set it to the class to use on response data pointed to by RESULT_KEY
   • Call the appropriate HTTP verb method passing the endpoint's path (the portion after the API's v3 URL) and parameters
4. If the method's return value should not be an Array call unwrap(result) before returning

Testing

Tests use VCR. If you need to re-record cassettes or create new ones a BigCommerce account is with API access is required. See .env.test.example.

To re-record certain tests you must import fixture data into your store. See etc/customers.csv. These records can be deleted once the VCR cassettes are recorded and you are done with development. The IDs they create are assumed by the tests which may present a problem. Open an issue if so.

Any records that are created by the tests are deleted. Well, a delete is attempted in an after block, if something goes wrong with the test the record(s) may remain in your store.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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