Class: Twilio::REST::Client

Inherits:
BaseClient show all
Defined in:
lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb

Overview

The Twilio::REST::Client class caches authentication parameters and exposes methods to make HTTP requests to Twilio’s REST API. However, you should never really need to call these methods yourself since you can work with the more pleasant wrapper objects like Twilio::REST::Call.

Instantiate a client like so:

@client = Twilio::REST::Client.new , auth_token

There are a few options you can use to configure the way your client will communicate with Twilio. See #new for a list and descriptions.

Once you have a client object you can use it to do fun things. Every client object exposes two wrapper objects which you can use as entry points into Twilio: account and accounts.

@client.account

Most of the time you’ll want to start with the account attribute. This object is an instance of Twilio::REST::Account that wraps the account referenced by the account_sid you used when instantiating the client.

An instance of Twilio::REST::Account exposes objects wrapping all of the account-level Twilio resources as properties. So

@client..calls

For convenience, the resources of the default account are also available on the client object. So the following call is equivalent to the example above

@client.calls

represents an account’s call list.

@client.accounts

If you are doing anything related to subaccounts you’ll want to start here. This object is an instance of Twilio::REST::Accounts that wraps the list of accounts belonging to the master account referenced by the account_sid used to instantiate the client.

This class inherits from Twilio::REST::ListResource, so you can use methods like ListResource#list to return a (possibly filtered) list of accounts and ListResource#create to create a new account. Use ListResource#get to grab a particular account once you know its sid.

Constant Summary collapse

API_VERSION = 
'2010-04-01'

Constants inherited from BaseClient

BaseClient::HTTP_HEADERS

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Attributes inherited from BaseClient

#account_sid, #last_request, #last_response

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from BaseClient

host, #method

Methods included from Utils

#detwilify, #twilify

Methods included from Util

#get_string, #url_encode

Constructor Details

#initialize(*args) ⇒ Client

Instantiate a new HTTP client to talk to Twilio. The parameters account_sid and auth_token are required, unless you have configured them already using the block configure syntax, and used to generate the HTTP basic auth header in each request. The options parameter is a hash of connection configuration options. the following keys are supported:

host: 'api.twilio.com'

The domain to which you’d like the client to make HTTP requests. Useful for testing. Defaults to ‘api.twilio.com’.

port: 443

The port on which to connect to the above domain. Defaults to 443 and should be left that way except in testing environments.

use_ssl: true

Declare whether ssl should be used for connections to the above domain. Defaults to true and should be left alone except when testing.

ssl_verify_peer: true

Declare whether to verify the host’s ssl cert when setting up the connection to the above domain. Defaults to true, but can be turned off to avoid ssl certificate verification failures in environments without the necessary ca certificates.

ssl_ca_file: '/path/to/ca/file'

Specify the path to the certificate authority bundle you’d like to use to verify Twilio’s SSL certificate on each request. If not specified, a certificate bundle extraced from Firefox is packaged with the gem and used by default.

timeout: 30

Set the time in seconds to wait before timing out the HTTP request. Defaults to 30 seconds. If you aren’t fetching giant pages of call or SMS logs you can safely decrease this to something like 3 seconds or lower. In paricular if you are sending SMS you can set this to 1 second or less and swallow the exception if you don’t care about the response.

proxy_addr: 'proxy.host.domain'

The domain of a proxy through which you’d like the client to make HTTP requests. Defaults to nil.

proxy_port: 3128

The port on which to connect to the above proxy. Defaults to nil.

proxy_user: 'username'

The user name to use for authentication with the proxy. Defaults to nil.

proxy_pass: 'password'

The password to use for authentication with the proxy. Defaults to nil.

retry_limit: 1

The number of times to retry a request that has failed before throwing an exception. Defaults to one.



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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 124

def initialize(*args)
  super(*args)
end

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method

#method_missing(method_name, *args, &block) ⇒ Object

Delegate account methods from the client. This saves having to call client.account every time for resources on the default account.



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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 136

def method_missing(method_name, *args, &block)
  if .respond_to?(method_name)
    .send(method_name, *args, &block)
  else
    super
  end
end

Instance Attribute Details

#account ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute account.



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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 54

def 
  @account
end

#accounts ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute accounts.



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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 54

def accounts
  @accounts
end

Instance Method Details

#inspect ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 128

def inspect # :nodoc:
  "<Twilio::REST::Client @account_sid=#{@account_sid}>"
end

#respond_to?(method_name, include_private = false) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twilio-ruby/rest/client.rb', line 144

def respond_to?(method_name, include_private=false)
  if .respond_to?(method_name, include_private)
    true
  else
    super
  end
end