Batchsubscribe does not appear to be updating MailChimp

[shanebekker]

Hi,

I know I am doing something wrong but can not find out what. I am storing, atm rather rough, subscribers in a database before (clients request) attempting to batch upload them into MailChimp.

I am not clear on how the Mergvars work so I think I have messed that up.

Here is my rough initial code:

       MailChimpManager mcm = new MailChimpManager(user.MailChimpAPIKey);
        List<BatchEmailParameter> listOfEmails = new List<BatchEmailParameter>();

        var data = from d in db.Subscribers
                   where d.ListID == id
                   select d;

        List<string> listSubscriber = new List<string>();
        char[] de = new char[] { ',' };
        foreach (var d in data)
        {
            string sub = d.Data;
            listSubscriber = sub.Split(de, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList();

            List<string> listid = new List<string>();
            listid.Add(id);

            MergeVarResult mvr = mcm.GetMergeVars(listid);

            MergeVarListResult mvlr = mvr.Data[0];
            List<MergeVarItemResult> mvir = mvlr.MergeVars;

            Dictionary<string, string> mergvar = new Dictionary<string, string>();

            int i = 0;

            foreach (var item in mvir)
            {
                var r = item.Tag;
                mergvar.Add(item.Tag, listSubscriber[i]);
                i++;
            }

            EmailParameter email = new EmailParameter()
            {
                Email = mergvar.Where(m => m.Key == "EMAIL").First().ToString()

            };

            BatchEmailParameter MCEmail = new BatchEmailParameter() { Email = email, EmailType = "html", MergeVars = mergvar };

            listOfEmails.Add(MCEmail);
        }

        try
        {
            mcm.BatchSubscribe(id, listOfEmails, doubleOptIn: false, updateExisting: true,    replaceInterests: true);
            mcm.Ping();

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            var error = ex.Message;
        }

[shanebekker]

As I received no answer to his query I decided to just loop over the results and call the Subscribe function one at a time as a work around

[shanebekker]

Hi Dan,

While I am sure we are all mostly thankful for your effort at providing this fine Wrapper this issue is not actually closed as all I did was provide my work around but it is not the solution.

A proper solution should only then allow this to be closed, do you not agree?

[mdissel]

I've updated the test in my fork, see https://github.com/mdissel/MailChimp.NET/commit/b2a391cf4db81972f7f6b58f731ade272e8fb263

ps. without the replacement of the type object to MergeVar it was also working.

[shanebekker]

Thanks for your reply I have created one list in mailchimp called kmp Here is an API key do you can see for yourself d84007881f268a83bf7755e984e3f012-us9 It will only be available for the next 24 hrs for obvious reasons

Thanks

-----Original Message----- From: "mdissel" notifications@github.com Sent: ‎25/‎09/‎2014 08:35 To: "danesparza/MailChimp.NET" MailChimp.NET@noreply.github.com Cc: "Shane Bekker" shane.bekker@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MailChimp.NET] Batchsubscribe does not appear to be updatingMailChimp (#112)

I've updated the test in my fork, see mdissel@b2a391c ps. without the replacement of the type object to MergeVar it was also working. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.=

[mdissel]

Please copy the test into your own code and try it out. The main difference is that i'm using a MergeVar class for the field variables and you're only using a dictionary.. I create a pull request to update the type to MergeVar instead of object.

[shanebekker]

Well the issue will be that my code does not know what the mailchimp fields will be so I cannot create a static class as I do know what the cards will be until I query the list id

-----Original Message----- From: "mdissel" notifications@github.com Sent: ‎25/‎09/‎2014 08:51 To: "danesparza/MailChimp.NET" MailChimp.NET@noreply.github.com Cc: "Shane Bekker" shane.bekker@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MailChimp.NET] Batchsubscribe does not appear to be updatingMailChimp (#112)

Please copy the test into your own code and try it out. The main difference is that i'm using a MergeVar class for the field variables and you're only using a dictionary.. I create a pull request to update the type to MergeVar instead of object. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.=

[mdissel]

Just leave it empty if you don't want to set a field with a specific value. See the MailChimp API documentation for more information.