Class: RBook::GBIP::POS

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/rbook/gbip/pos.rb

Overview

Provides easy access to the globalbooksinprint.com search API. RBook::GBIP has basic usage examples.

Constant Summary collapse

POS_SERVER =

don’t think we really need these attr_accessor :username, :password

"pos.bowker.com"
POS_PORT = 
7052

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(username, password, socket_class = nil) ⇒ POS

creates a new POS object ready to perform a search



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# File 'lib/rbook/gbip/pos.rb', line 20

def initialize(username, password, socket_class = nil)
  @username = username
  @password = password
  @socket_class = socket_class || TCPSocket
end

Instance Method Details

#find(type, isbn, options = {}) ⇒ Object

search for the specified ISBN on globalbooksinprint.com. Accepts both ISBN10 and ISBN13’s.

Supported options: :markets => only search the specified markets. comma sperated list :timeout => amount of time in seconds to wait for a reponse from the server before timing out. Defaults to 10.



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# File 'lib/rbook/gbip/pos.rb', line 32

def find(type, isbn, options = {})
  case type
    when :first then default_return = nil
    when :all then default_return = []
    else raise ArgumentError, 'type must by :first or :all'
  end
  
  options = {:timeout => 10}.merge(options)

  # global only accepts ISBNs as 10 digits at this stage
  isbn = RBook::ISBN.convert_to_isbn10(isbn.to_s)
  return default_return if isbn.nil?
  
  request_format = "POS"
   = "3"
  product = "2"
  username = "#{@username}"
  password = "#{@password}"
  version = "2"
  supplier = ""
  request = "bn=#{isbn}"
  filters = "1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1"
  if type.eql?(:first)
    records = "1,0"
  else
    records = "10,0"
  end
  sort_order = "1"
  markets = options[:markets] || ""

  request_string = "#{request_format}\t#{}\t#{product}\t#{username}\t#{password}\t"
  request_string << "#{version}\t#{supplier}\t#{request}\t#{filters}\t#{records}\t#{sort_order}\t"
  request_string << "#{markets}\t"

  gbip = @socket_class.new(POS_SERVER, POS_PORT)
  gbip.print request_string
  response = Timeout::timeout(options[:timeout]) { gbip.gets(nil) }
  response = response.split("#")
  gbip.close
  
  header = nil
  titles_arr = []
  response.each do |arr|
    if header.nil?
      header = arr.split("\t")
    else
      titles_arr << arr.split("\t")
      titles_arr[-1] = titles_arr.last[1,titles_arr.last.size-1]
    end
  end
  
  # raise an exception if incorrect login details were provided
  if header.first.eql?("66") 
    raise RBook::InvalidLoginError, "Invalid username or password"
  end
   
  if titles_arr.size == 0
    # return nil if no matching records found
    return nil
  else

    titles = []
    titles_arr.each do |arr|
      title = build_object_tree(arr)
      titles << title unless title.nil?
    end

    if type.eql?(:first)
      return titles.first
    else
      return titles
    end
  end

end