seatsio-ruby, the official Seats.io Ruby SDK

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This is the official Ruby client library for the Seats.io V2 REST API, supporting Ruby 3.0+

Versioning

seatsio-ruby follows semver since v23.3.0.

API reference

You can find a full API reference at https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/seatsio/

Usage

General instructions

To use this library, you'll need to create a Seatsio::Client:

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
...

You can find your workspace secret key in the settings section of the workspace.

The region should correspond to the region of your account:

  • Seatsio::Region.EU(): Europe
  • Seatsio::Region.NA(): North-America
  • Seatsio::Region.SA(): South-America
  • Seatsio::Region.OC(): Oceania

If you're unsure about your region, have a look at your company settings page.

Creating a chart and an event

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
chart = client.charts.create
event = client.events.create chart_key: chart.key

Booking objects

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
client.events.book(event.key, ["A-1", "A-2"])

Releasing objects

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
client.events.release(event.key, ["A-1", "A-2"])

Booking objects that have been held

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
client.events.book(event.key, ["A-1", "A-2"], hold_token: "a-hold-token")

Changing object status

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
client.events.change_object_status("<EVENT KEY>", ["A-1", "A-2"], "my-custom-status")

Retrieving object category and status (and other information)

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
object_infos = client.events.retrieve_object_infos key: event.key, labels: ['A-1', 'A-2']

puts object_infos['A-1'].category_key
puts object_infos['A-1'].category_label
puts object_infos['A-1'].status

puts object_infos['A-2'].category_key
puts object_infos['A-2'].category_label
puts object_infos['A-2'].status

Listing a chart's categories

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
categories = [
  { 'key' => 1, 'label' => 'Category 1', 'color' => '#aaaaaa', 'accessible' => false },
  { 'key' => 'cat2', 'label' => 'Category 2', 'color' => '#bbbbbb', 'accessible' => true }
]
chart = client.charts.create categories: categories

category_list = client.charts.list_categories(chart.key)
category_list.each_with_index do |category, index|
  puts category.key
end

Updating a category

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-company-admin-key", "my-workspace-public-key")
@seatsio.charts.update_category(chart_key: '<the chart key>', category_key: '<the category key>', label: "New label", color: "#bbbbbb", accessible: true)

Listing all charts

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
charts = client.charts.list
charts.each do |chart|
  puts chart.key
end

Note: list returns an Enumerable, which under the hood calls the seats.io API to fetch charts page by page. So multiple API calls may be done underneath to fetch all charts.

Listing charts page by page

E.g. to show charts in a paginated list on a dashboard.

Each page is Enumerable, and it has next_page_starts_after and previous_page_ends_before properties. Those properties are the chart IDs after which the next page starts or the previous page ends.

# ... user initially opens the screen ...
require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
firstPage = client.charts.list.first_page()
firstPage.each do |chart|
  puts chart.key
end

# ... user clicks on 'next page' button ...
require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
nextPage = client.charts.list.page_after(firstPage.next_page_starts_after)
nextPage.each do |chart|
  puts chart.key
end

# ... user clicks on 'previous page' button ...
require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key")
previousPage = client.charts.list.page_before(nextPage.previous_page_ends_before)
previousPage.each do |chart|
  puts chart.key
end

Creating a workspace

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-company-admin-key") # can be found on https://app.seats.io/company-settings
client.workspaces.create name: "a workspace"

Creating a chart and an event with the company admin key

require('seatsio')
# company admin key can be found on https://app.seats.io/company-settings
# workspace public key can be found on https://app.seats.io/workspace-settings
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-company-admin-key", "my-workspace-public-key")
chart = client.charts.create
event = client.events.create chart_key: chart.key

Error handling

When an API call results in a 4xx or 5xx error (e.g. when a chart could not be found), a SeatsioException is thrown.

This exception contains a message string describing what went wrong, and also two other properties:

  • errors: a list of errors that the server returned. In most cases, this array will contain only one element, an instance of ApiError, containing an error code and a message.
  • requestId: the identifier of the request you made. Please mention this to us when you have questions, as it will make debugging easier.

Rate limiting - exponential backoff

This library supports exponential backoff.

When you send too many concurrent requests, the server returns an error 429 - Too Many Requests. The client reacts to this by waiting for a while, and then retrying the request. If the request still fails with an error 429, it waits a little longer, and try again. By default this happens 5 times, before giving up (after approximately 15 seconds).

We throw a RateLimitExceededException (which is a subclass of SeatsioException) when exponential backoff eventually fails.

To change the maximum number of retries, create the client as follows:

require('seatsio')
client = Seatsio::Client.new(Seatsio::Region.EU(), "my-workspace-secret-key", max_retries = 3)

Passing in 0 disables exponential backoff completely. In that case, the client will never retry a failed request.