Add an example for creating new contacts

[garyv]

Listing existing contacts is okay, but what I need to do is make a form for adding new email subscribers.

I've been trying to extrapolate how to do this based on the documentation and examples, but they don't seem to cover anything like this.

[csciuto]

This is a very old issue, but the example in https://github.com/constantcontact/ruby-sdk/blob/master/examples/contact/myapp.rb does add a contact but isn't easy to follow as it does a lot more than that. I'm not a Ruby expert but this works:

#gem install constantcontact

require 'yaml'
require 'constantcontact'

class ContactExample

  def initialize()
    cnf = YAML::load(File.open('config/config.yml'))
    @cc = ConstantContact::Api.new(cnf['api_key'], cnf['oauth_token'])
  end

  def add_contact( contact_json )
    @cc.add_contact( contact_json )
  end

  def get_lists
    @cc.get_lists()
  end

end

class AddContactTest
    def do()
        contact_example = ContactExample.new    
        contact_list = contact_example.get_lists[0].id
        puts "Add what email address?"
        email_address = gets.chomp
        puts "Adding #{email_address} to Contact List #{contact_list}"

        list_to_add_to = ConstantContact::Components::ContactList.new
        list_to_add_to.id = contact_list

        new_contact = ConstantContact::Components::Contact.new
        new_contact.add_email(ConstantContact::Components::EmailAddress.new(email_address))
        new_contact.add_list(list_to_add_to)
        new_contact.first_name = 'Example'
        new_contact.last_name = 'User'

        #input = "{ 'email_addresses':[{'email_address':'#{email_address}'}], 'lists':[{'id':'#{contact_list}'}], first_name':'Example', 'last_name':'User'}" 
        #puts input
        puts new_contact.to_json

        puts contact_example.add_contact( new_contact ).to_json

    rescue  RestClient::BadRequest => e
        puts "#{e.http_code} - #{e.http_body}"
    end 
end

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