How can I get HTTParty to recognize ":footer" and ":collector" parameters?

Question

I received the following code from a development team:

curl -u EMAILADDRESS:PASSWORD -d "sender=NAME <EMAILADDRESS>&message=[Invite Link]&collector=COLLECTOR&subject=Test Invite&footer=My Custom Text [Unsubscription Link]"

I have been told that the above works fine. This is what I translated it to in Ruby 1.9.3, using the httparty gem:

call= "/api/v2/emails/?survey=#{i}"    
puts collector_final_id
url= HTTParty.post("https://www.fluidsurveys.com#{call}",
  :basic_auth => auth,
  :headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded','Accept' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },
  :collector => collector,
  :body => {
    "subject" => "Test Invite",
    "sender" => "NAME <EMAILADDRESS>",
    "message" => "[Invite Link]"
  },
  :footer => "My Custom Text [Unsubscription Link]"
)

Everything within this works fine except for the :footer and :collector parameters. It doesn't seem to recognize them at all.

There are no errors thrown, they just aren't included in the actual email I am sending. What am I doing wrong when passing in those two parameters?

Answer 1

Your :collector and :footer are not correct.

I wrote a little Sinatra service to receive a POST request with any parameters:

require 'pp'
require 'sinatra'

post "/*" do
  pp params
end

And ran it, launching the web-server on my Mac OS laptop. As Sinatra apps do, it resides at 0.0.0.0:4567.

Running this code:

require 'httparty'

url = HTTParty.post(
  "http://localhost:4567/api/v2/emails?survey=1",
  :headers => {
    'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Accept' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  :body => {
    "subject" => 'subject',
    "sender" => 'sender',
    "message" => 'message',
  },
  :collector => 'collector',
  :footer => 'footer'
)

puts url

Outputs:

["survey", "1"]["subject", "subject"]["sender", "sender"]["message", "message"]["splat", ["api/v2/emails"]]["captures", ["api/v2/emails"]]

Sinatra said:

127.0.0.1 - - [11/Sep/2013 17:58:47] "POST /api/v2/emails?survey=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 - 0.0163
{"survey"=>"1",
 "subject"=>"subject",
 "sender"=>"sender",
 "message"=>"message",
 "splat"=>["api/v2/emails"],
 "captures"=>["api/v2/emails"]}

Changing :collector and :footer to strings and moving them inside the body, where they should be:

require 'httparty'

url = HTTParty.post(
  "http://localhost:4567/api/v2/emails?survey=1",
  :headers => {
    'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Accept' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  },
  :body => {
    "subject" => 'subject',
    "sender" => 'sender',
    "message" => 'message',
    'collector' => 'collector',
    'footer' => 'footer'
  },
)

puts url

Outputs:

["survey", "1"]["subject", "subject"]["sender", "sender"]["message", "message"]["collector", "collector"]["footer", "footer"]["splat", ["api/v2/emails"]]["captures", ["api/v2/emails"]]

And Sinatra said:

127.0.0.1 - - [11/Sep/2013 18:04:13] "POST /api/v2/emails?survey=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 - 0.0010
{"survey"=>"1",
 "subject"=>"subject",
 "sender"=>"sender",
 "message"=>"message",
 "collector"=>"collector",
 "footer"=>"footer",
 "splat"=>["api/v2/emails"],
 "captures"=>["api/v2/emails"]}

The problem is, the POST request ONLY uses a URL and a :body hash. Inside the :body hash go all the variables you're sending to the server. That's why the second version of the code, with 'collector' and 'footer' works.

Answer 2

There is no comma after your :body parameter