Class: Tweetable::URL

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/tweetable/url.rb

Constant Summary collapse

LONG_URL_API_URL = 
'http://www.longurlplease.com/api/v1.1'
LONG_URL_TIMEOUT = 
5

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.headers ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/tweetable/url.rb', line 12

def self.headers  
  { "Content-Type" => 'application/json' }  
end

.lookup_long_url(search) ⇒ Object

the api can handle multiple url queries and response, but this does just 1



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# File 'lib/tweetable/url.rb', line 17

def self.lookup_long_url(search)  
  url = URI.parse(LONG_URL_API_URL)  
  url.query = "q=#{CGI.escape(search)}"  
     
  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)  
  http.read_timeout = LONG_URL_TIMEOUT  
    
  long_url = nil
  begin
    json = http.get(url.to_s, headers).body
    urls =  Crack::JSON.parse(json)
    long_url = urls.values[0]
  rescue Crack::ParseError
    raise TweetableError.new("Error parsing json trying to get long URL: #{json.to_s}")        
  rescue Timeout::Error => e
    raise TweetableError.new("Timeout trying to get long URL: #{e}")
  rescue Exception => e      
    raise TweetableError.new("Error trying to get long URL: #{e}")
  end      
  long_url.nil? ? search : long_url
end