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API for Silverpop Enterprise Newslettering

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silverpop
=========

Python implementation of the Silverpop API

Currently implemented API methods::

def add_recipient(api_url, list_id, email, columns=[]):
"""Add recipient to a list (only email key supported)
api_url, list_id, email are required, optionally
takes a list of dicts to define additional columns like
[{'column_name':'State', 'column_value':'Germany'},]
returns True or False
"""

def opt_out_recipient(api_url, list_id, email):
"""opt out a recipient from a list
api_url, list_id, email are required
returns True or False
"""

def xml_request(api_url, xml):
"""submit a custom xml request
api_url, xml, are required
returns a string (xml)
"""

- Silverpop: http://www.silverpop.com/

Changelog
*********

0.2 (2009-05-12)
----------------

- added doctest [hplocher]
- refactored [hplocher]
- implemented xml_request(api_url, xml) [hplocher]

0.1 (2009-05-12)
----------------

- Initial release
- implemented api methods:
add_recipient(api_url, list_id, email, columns=[])
opt_out_recipient(api_url, list_id, email)
[hplocher]
- mocked api methods:
is_opted_in(api_url, list_id, email)
select_recipient_data(api_url, list_id, email, columns=[])
xml_request(api_url, xml)
[hplocher]

- initial package skeleton [hplocher]

Detailed documentation
======================

Test Setup
----------

Most API methods will only return True or False,
to get a more verbose output and prohibit
making requests to Silverpop
We monkeypatch urllib to print
(url, headers, data) instead of doing any requests.

We create a Fake class to be returned by urlib2.urlopen,
which will always return a successful silverpop response::

>>> class Fake(object):
... def read(self): return "<success>true</success>"

In our test method, we print request's url, headers, data (we decode
the urlencoded data for the test) and
return a Fake object::

>>> import cgi
>>> def test_urlopen(req):
... print '-'*30 + 'request details' + '-'*30
... print req.get_full_url()
... print req.headers
... xml = dict(cgi.parse_qsl(req.data))['xml']
... print xml
... print '-'*75
... return Fake()
>>> import urllib2

Finally we patch urllib2.urlopen::

>>> urllib2.urlopen = test_urlopen

We also define a FakeRequest class to define our request
containing just a form::

>>> class FakeRequest(dict):
... def __init__(self, **kwargs):
... self.form = kwargs

API Methods
-----------

All api methods can be accessed by importing the module::

>>> import silverpop


First, we define data needed for the various api_methods.

The URL of the Silverpop Server::

>>> api_url = 'http://api1.silverpop.com/XMLAPI '

A List Id::

>>> list_id = 999

An Email Address (we only support email key lists, so this is
our key identifying a newsletter subscriber)::

>>> email = 'my@email.com'

add_recipient
+++++++++++++


Let's call the add_recipient api with the required attributes::

>>> silverpop.add_recipient(api_url, list_id, email)
------------------------------request details------------------------------
http://api1.silverpop.com/XMLAPI
{'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'}
<Envelope>
<Body>
<AddRecipient>
<LIST_ID>999</LIST_ID>
<CREATED_FROM>2</CREATED_FROM>
<UPDATE_IF_FOUND>true</UPDATE_IF_FOUND>
<COLUMN>
<NAME>EMAIL</NAME>
<VALUE>my@email.com</VALUE>
</COLUMN>
</AddRecipient>
</Body>
</Envelope>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
True

If we provide a list of columns, these will be used in the request, leading to columns in silverpop.

For example, we want to use a custom column **gender**::

>>> columns = [{'column_name': 'gender', 'column_value': 'male'}, ]

>>> silverpop.add_recipient(api_url, list_id, email, columns)
------------------------------request details------------------------------
http://api1.silverpop.com/XMLAPI
{'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'}
<Envelope>
<Body>
<AddRecipient>
<LIST_ID>999</LIST_ID>
<CREATED_FROM>2</CREATED_FROM>
<UPDATE_IF_FOUND>true</UPDATE_IF_FOUND>
<COLUMN>
<NAME>EMAIL</NAME>
<VALUE>my@email.com</VALUE>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN>
<NAME>gender</NAME>
<VALUE>male</VALUE>
</COLUMN>
</AddRecipient>
</Body>
</Envelope>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
True


opt_out_recipient
+++++++++++++++++

Let's call the opt_out_recipient api with the required attributes::

>>> silverpop.opt_out_recipient(api_url, list_id, email)
------------------------------request details------------------------------
http://api1.silverpop.com/XMLAPI
{'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'}
<Envelope>
<Body>
<OptOutRecipient>
<LIST_ID>999</LIST_ID>
<EMAIL>my@email.com</EMAIL>
</OptOutRecipient>
</Body>
</Envelope>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
True

xml_request
+++++++++++

The Silverpop XML API offers a quite large variaty of commands,
of which we only implement a subset.
If you need to make different requests you can use this method to
submit custom xml to Silverpop. As result, you will get the Silverpop
Response, which is also xml.

Imagine, we want to use the **ForwardToFrient** xml command.

Let's define the custom xml::

>>> xml = """<Envelope>
... <Body>
... <ForwardToFriend>
... <SENDER_EMAIL>bob@bob.com</SENDER_EMAIL>
... <r>5</r>
... <m>10</m>
... <RECIPIENTS>jane@jane.com</RECIPIENTS>
... <MESSAGE>Forwarded: Check this out, I just got that</MESSAGE>
... </ForwardToFriend>
... </Body>
... </Envelope>"""

The xml is sent to Silverpop and we get the response back, for further processing::

>>> silverpop.xml_request(api_url, xml)
------------------------------request details------------------------------
http://api1.silverpop.com/XMLAPI
{'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'}
<Envelope>
<Body>
<ForwardToFriend>
<SENDER_EMAIL>bob@bob.com</SENDER_EMAIL>
<r>5</r>
<m>10</m>
<RECIPIENTS>jane@jane.com</RECIPIENTS>
<MESSAGE>Forwarded: Check this out, I just got that</MESSAGE>
</ForwardToFriend>
</Body>
</Envelope>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
'<success>true</success>'

Contributors
************

Hans-Peter Locher, Author

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