README.md in survey-gizmo-ruby-4.1.0 vs README.md in survey-gizmo-ruby-5.0.2
- old
+ new
@@ -4,18 +4,26 @@
Currently supports SurveyGizmo API **v4** (default) and **v3**.
## Versions
+### Major Changes in 5.x
+
+* **BREAKING CHANGE**: `.all` returns an `Enumerator`, not an `Array`. This will break your code if you are using the return value of `.all` without iterating over it.
+* **BREAKING CHANGE**: `SurveyCampaign` has been renamed `Campaign` to be in line with the other model names.
+* FEATURE: `.all` will automatically paginate responses for you with the `:all_pages` option. There are also some built in methods like `Survey#responses` that will auto paginate.
+* FEATURE: Built in retries. 1 retry with a 60 second backoff is the default but can be configured.
+* FEATURE: `Response#parsed_answers` returns an array of `Answers` (new class) that are sane, stable Ruby objects instead of the sort of wild and wooly way SurveyGizmo has chosen to represent survey responses.
+
### Major Changes in 4.x
-* BREAKING CHANGE: There is no more error tracking. If the API gives an error or bad response, an exception will be raised.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: There is no more ```copy``` method
+* **BREAKING CHANGE**: There is no more error tracking. If the API gives an error or bad response, an exception will be raised.
+* **BREAKING CHANGE**: There is no more ```copy``` method
### Major Changes in 3.x
-* BREAKING CHANGE: Configuration is completely different
+* **BREAKING CHANGE**: Configuration is completely different
* Important Change: Defaults to using the v4 SurveyGizmo API endpoint to take advantage of various API bug fixes (notably team ownership is broken in v3)
### Old versions
[Version 2.0.1 for the v3 API is here](https://github.com/RipTheJacker/survey-gizmo-ruby/releases/tag/v2.0.1)
@@ -28,11 +36,11 @@
```ruby
gem 'survey-gizmo-ruby'
```
-## Basic Usage
+## Configuration
```ruby
require 'survey-gizmo-ruby'
# Configure your credentials
@@ -41,68 +49,119 @@
config.password = 'it_takes_grindin_to_be_a_king'
# Optional - Defaults to v4, but you can probably set to v3 safely if you suspect a bug in v4
config.api_version = 'v4'
+ # Optional - Set if you need to hit a different base URL (e.g. the .eu domain)
+ config.api_url = 'https://restapi.surveygizmo.eu'
+
# Optional - Defaults to 50, maximum 500. Setting too high may cause SurveyGizmo to start throwing timeouts.
config.results_per_page = 100
end
+```
-# Retrieve the first page of your surveys
-surveys = SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all
-# Retrieve ALL your surveys (handle pagination for you)
-surveys = SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(all_pages: true)
+### Retries
+The [Pester](https://github.com/lumoslabs/pester) gem is used to manage retry strategies. By default it will be configured to handle 1 retry with a 60 second timeout upon encountering basic net timeouts and rate limit errors, which is enough for most people's needs.
+
+If, however, you want to specify more retries, a longer backoff, new classes to retry on, or otherwise get fancy with the retry strategy, you can configured Pester directly. SurveyGizmo API calls are executed in Pester's `survey_gizmo_ruby` environment, so anything you configure there will apply to all your requests.
+
+```ruby
+# For example, to change the retry interval, max attempts, or exception classes to be retried:
+Pester.configure do |config|
+ # Retry 10 times
+ config.environments[:survey_gizmo_ruby][:max_attempts] = 10
+ # Backoff for 2 minutes
+ config.environments[:survey_gizmo_ruby][:delay_interval] = 120
+ # Retry different exception classes
+ config.environments[:survey_gizmo_ruby][:retry_error_classes] = [MyExceptionClass, MyOtherExceptionClass]
+end
+
+# To set Pester to retry on ALL exception classes, do this (use with caution! Can include exceptions Rails likes to throw on SIGHUP)
+Pester.configure do |config|
+ config.environments[:survey_gizmo_ruby][:retry_error_classes] = nil
+end
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+### Retrieving Data
+
+`SurveyGizmo::API::Klass.first` returns a single instance of the resource.
+
+`SurveyGizmo::API::Klass.all` returns an `Enumerator` you can use to loop through your results/questions/surveys etc. It will actually iterate through ALL your results (pagination will be handled for you) if you pass `all_pages: true`.
+
+Because `.all` returns an `Enumerator`, you have to call `.to_a` or some other enumerable method to trigger actual API data retrieval.
+```ruby
+SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(all_pages: true) # => #<Enumerator: #<Enumerator::Generator>:each>
+SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(all_pages: true).to_a # => [Survey, Survey, Survey, ...]
+```
+
+### Examples
+
+```ruby
+# Iterate over your all surveys directly with the iterator
+SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(all_pages: true).each { |survey| do_something_with(survey) }
+# Iterate over the 1st page of your surveys
+SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(page: 1).each { |survey| do_something_with(survey) }
+
# Retrieve the survey with id: 12345
survey = SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.first(id: 12345)
survey.title # => "My Title"
survey.pages # => [page1, page2,...]
survey.number_of_completed_responses # => 355
survey.server_has_new_results_since?(Time.now.utc - 2.days) # => true
survey.team_names # => ['Development', 'Test']
survey.belongs_to?('Development') # => true
-# Retrieving Questions for a given survey. Note that page_id is a required parameter.
-questions = SurveyGizmo::API::Question.all(survey_id: survey.id, page_id: 1)
-# Or just retrieve all questions for all pages of this survey
+# Retrieve all questions for all pages of this survey
questions = survey.questions
+# Strip out instruction, urlredirect, logic, media, and other non question "questions"
+questions = survey.actual_questions
# Create a question for your survey. The returned object will be given an :id parameter by SG.
question = SurveyGizmo::API::Question.create(survey_id: survey.id, title: 'Do you like ruby?', type: 'checkbox')
# Update a question
question.title = "Do you LOVE Ruby?"
question.save
# Destroy a question
question.destroy
-# Retrieve 2nd page of SurveyResponses for a given survey.
-responses = SurveyGizmo::API::Response.all(survey_id: 12345, page: 2)
-# Retrieve all responses for a given survey.
-responses = SurveyGizmo::API::Response.all(all_pages: true, survey_id: 12345)
-# Retrieving page 3 of completed, non test data SurveyResponses submitted within the past 3 days
-# for contact id 999. This example shows you how to use some of the gem's built in filters and
-# filter generators as well as how to construct your own raw filter.
+# Iterate over all your Responses
+survey.responses.each { |response| do_something_with(response) }
+# Use filters to limit results - this example will iterate over page 3 of completed, non test data
+# SurveyResponses submitted within the past 3 days for contact 999. It demonstrates how to use some of the gem's
+# built in filters/generators as well as how to construct a filter.
# See: http://apihelp.surveygizmo.com/help/article/link/filters for more info on filters
-responses = SurveyGizmo::API::Response.all(
- survey_id: 12345,
- page: 3,
- filters: [
- SurveyGizmo::API::Response::NO_TEST_DATA,
- SurveyGizmo::API::Response::ONLY_COMPLETED,
- SurveyGizmo::API::Response.submitted_since_filter(Time.now - 72.hours),
- {
- field: 'contact_id',
- operator: '=',
- value: 999
- }
- ]
-)
-```
+filters = [
+ SurveyGizmo::API::Response::NO_TEST_DATA,
+ SurveyGizmo::API::Response::ONLY_COMPLETED,
+ SurveyGizmo::API::Response.submitted_since_filter(Time.now - 72.hours),
+ {
+ field: 'contact_id',
+ operator: '=',
+ value: 999
+ }
+]
+survey.responses(page: 3, filters: filters).each { |response| do_stuff_with(response) }
-## On API Timeouts
+# Parse the answer hash into a more usable format.
+# Answers with keys but empty values will not be returned.
+# "Other" text for some questions is parsed to Answer#other_text; all other answers to Answer#answer_text
+# Custom table question answers have the question_pipe string parsed out to Answer#question_pipe.
+# See http://apihelp.surveygizmo.com/help/article/link/surveyresponse-per-question for more info on answers
+response.parsed_answers => # [#<SurveyGizmo::API::Answer @survey_id=12345, @question_id=1, @option_id=2, @answer_text='text'>]
-API timeouts are a regular occurrence with the SurveyGizmo API. At Lumos Labs we use our own [Pester gem](https://github.com/lumoslabs/pester) to manage retry strategies. It might work for you.
+# Retrieve all answers from all responses to all surveys, write rows to your database
+SurveyGizmo::API::Survey.all(all_pages: true).each do |survey|
+ survey.responses.each do |response|
+ response.parsed_answers.each do |answer|
+ MyLocalSurveyGizmoResponseModel.create(answer.to_hash)
+ end
+ end
+end
+```
## Debugging
The GIZMO_DEBUG environment variable will trigger full printouts of SurveyGizmo's HTTP responses and variable introspection for almost everything.
@@ -112,11 +171,11 @@
bundle exec rails whatever
```
## Adding API Objects
-Currently, the following API objects are included in the gem: `Survey`, `Question`, `Option`, `Page`, `Response`, `EmailMessage`, `SurveyCampaign`, `Contact`, `AccountTeams`. If you want to use something that isn't included you can easily write a class that handles it. Here's an example of the how to do so:
+Currently, the following API objects are included in the gem: `Survey`, `Question`, `Option`, `Page`, `Response`, `EmailMessage`, `Campaign`, `Contact`, `AccountTeams`. If you want to use something that isn't included you can easily write a class that handles it. Here's an example of the how to do so:
```ruby
class SomeObject
# the base where most of the methods for handling the API are stored
include SurveyGizmo::Resource
@@ -126,19 +185,20 @@
attribute :title, String
attribute :status, String
attribute :type, String
attribute :created_on, DateTime
- # defing the paths used to retrieve/set info
- route '/something/:id', via: [:get, :update, :delete]
- route '/something', via: :create
-
- # this must be defined with the params that would be included in any route related
- # to an instance of SomeObject
- def to_param_options
- { id: self.id }
- end
+ # define the paths used to retrieve/set info
+ # if the routing is such that :get, :update, and :delete only append /:id to the main route, do this
+ @route = '/something'
+ # but if the class needs special routing, specify each method route with a hash:
+ @route = {
+ get: '/something/:id',
+ update: '/something/weird/:id',
+ create: '/something',
+ delete: /something/delete/:id'
+ }
end
```
The [Virtus](https://github.com/solnic/virtus) gem is included to handle the attributes, so please check their documentation as well.
@@ -152,16 +212,14 @@
* Submit a pull request
* Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.
## Desirable/Missing Features
+* Better specs with VCR/Webmock
+* OAuth authentication
* Better foreign language support
-* Use Faraday instead of Httparty (partied too hard)
-* Better specs with VCR/Webmock would be nice.
* There are several API objects that are available and not included in this gem. AccountTeams, for instance, has some skeleton code but is untested.
-* OAuth authentication ability.
# Copyright
Copyright (c) 2012 RipTheJacker. See LICENSE.txt for
further details.
-