yieldmanager

This gem offers read/write access to YieldManager's API tools and ad-hoc reporting through the Reportware tool.

Currently it generates a fresh wsdl from the api.yieldmanager.com site the first time you use a service (in the future it will use locally-cached copies) and re-uses that wsdl for the life of the Yieldmanager::Client object.

The current API version is stored in the API_VERSION file.

The gem should run properly on 1.8, 1.9, 2.x and JRuby, but 1.8 support will likely be removed in a future version.

Installation

Yieldmanager is available as a gem for easy installation.

sudo gem install yieldmanager

or if you're using RVM (and why on earth wouldn't you?)

gem install yieldmanager

The project is available for review/forking on github.com

git clone git://github.com/billgathen/yieldmanager.git

To use in a Rails project, add this to config/environment.rb:

config.gem 'yieldmanager'

Creating a Yieldmanager::Client

require 'yieldmanager'

@ym = Yieldmanager::Client.new(
	:user => "bob",
	:pass => "secret"
)

The default environment is production. To access the test environment, use this:

@ym = Yieldmanager::Client.new(
	:user => "bob",
	:pass => "secret",
	:env => "test"
)

The keys can also be passed as strings: 'user', 'pass' and 'env'.

NOTE Changing the environment after creation has no effect!

What API version am I using?

To check (or log) the current API version, execute the following:

Yieldmanager::Client.api_version

Finding available services

@ym.available_services

Using a service

@ym.session do |token|
	@currencies = @ym.dictionary.getCurrencies(token)
end

GOTCHA In projects with ActiveRecord enabled (i.e., Rails projects) SOAP will identify returned data as AR objects if there's a naming collision. For example, if you're running

@ym.creative.get(token,123)

and you have an AR objects for a creatives table in the db, the SOAP parser will interpret the returned SOAP object as an AR Creative object, resulting in bizarre errors. Uniquely re-name your AR object to eliminate the conflict.

WSDL validation checks

NOTE this feature is not thread-safe!

Due to an unknown bug, soap4r occasionally reports that a field is required when it really isn't. If you get an error along the lines of

XSD::ValueSpaceError: {https://api.yieldmanager.com/types}enum_ad_tag_type: cannot accept ''

...you can disable this checking temporarily by calling

@ym.disable_check_restriction

When you're done with the call, re-enable it using

@ym.enable_check_restriction

Pagination

Some calls return datasets too large to retrieve all at once. Pagination allows you to pull them back incrementally, handling the partial dataset on-the-fly or accumulating it for later use.

BLOCK_SIZE = 50
id = 1
@ym.session do |token|
	@ym.paginate(BLOCK_SIZE) do |block|
		(lines,tot) = @ym.line_item.getByBuyer(token,id,BLOCK_SIZE,block)
		# ...do something with lines...
		tot # remember to return total!
	end
end

Pulling reports

Accessing reportware assumes you've used the "Get request XML" functionality in the UI to get your request XML, or have crafted one from scratch. Assuming it's in a variable called request_xml, you'd access the data this way:

@ym.session do |token|
	report = @ym.pull_report(token, request_xml)
	puts report.headers.join("\t")
	report.data.each do |row|
		puts row.join("\t")
	end
end

For large reports it may be necessary to increase the request timeout, which has a default value of 300 seconds. You may do so by passing in an additional argument to pull_report:

max_wait_seconds = 600
@ym.pull_report(token, request_xml, max_wait_seconds)

Column data can be accessed either by index or column name:

report.headers # => ['advertiser_name','seller_imps']
report.data[0][0] # => "Bob's Ads"
report.data[0].by_name('advertiser_name') # => "Bob's Ads"
report.data[0].by_name(:advertiser_name) # => "Bob's Ads"

If you call by_name with a non-existent column, it will throw an ArgumentError telling you so.

Or you can extract the report to an array of named hashes, removing dependencies on the gem for consumers of the data (say, across an API):

hashes = report.to_hashes
hashes[0]['advertiser_name'] # => "Bob's Ads"

NOTE Any totals columns your xml requests will be interpreted as ordinary data.

Mocking reports

When simulating report calls without actually hitting Yieldmanager, you can create your own reports.

rpt = Yieldmanager::Report.new
rpt.headers = ["first","second"]
rpt.add_row([1,2])
rpt.data.first.by_name("first").should == 1
rpt.data.first.by_name("second").should == 2

Wiredumps (SOAP logging)

To see the nitty-gritty of what's going over the wire (Yahoo tech support often asks for this), you can activate a "wiredump" on a per-service basis. Typically you just echo it to standard out. For instance:

client.entity.wiredump_dev = $stdout # on
adv = client.entity.get(token,12345)
client.entity.wiredump_dev = nil # off

For Rails in a passenger environment, standard out doesn't end up in the logfiles. Instead, redirect to a file:

wiredump = File.new("#{Rails.root}/log/wiredump_entity_#{Time.new.strftime('%H%M%S')}.log",'w')
client.entity.wiredump_dev = wiredump # on

adv = client.entity.get(token,12345)

wiredump.flush # make sure everything gets in there before it closes
client.entity.wiredump_dev = nil # off

The last 2 lines belong in an ensure block, so the file is created even when there's an error (which is probably why you're doing this).

session vs. start_session/end_session

The session method opens a session, gives you a token to use in your service calls, then closes the session when the block ends, even if an exception is raised during processing. It's the recommended method to ensure you don't hang connections when things go wrong. If you use start/end, make sure you wrap your logic in a begin/ensure clause and call end_session from the ensure.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add specs for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Thanks for contributing!

• manlycode
• KarateCode
• budnik
• walsh1kt
• Hachmaninow

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bill Gathen. See LICENSE for details.