Module: GoGoodreads::Request

Included in:
Book
Defined in:
lib/go_goodreads/request.rb

Constant Summary collapse

BASE_URL = 
"http://www.goodreads.com"

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#request(path, params = {}) {|xml| ... } ⇒ Object

Does the HTTP request and converting to Nokogiri::XML.

Parameters:

  • path (String) —

    path of the request.

  • params (Hash) (defaults to: {}) —

    Goodreads API params to be passed with the request.

Yields:

  • (xml) —

    Consume/parse the xml.



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# File 'lib/go_goodreads/request.rb', line 14

def request(path, params = {}, &block)
  params.merge!(:key => GoGoodreads::Config.api_key)

  begin
    r = ::RestClient.get(BASE_URL + path, :params => params)
    yield Nokogiri::XML(r.to_str)
  rescue ::RestClient::Exception => ex
    if ex.http_code == 401
      raise BadApiKey
    else
      raise
    end
  end
end