Gibbon does not speak Ruby

[paneq]

Gibbon does not speak Ruby

[amro]

Hi Robert. I agree.

Right now, Gibbon doesn't require an update when MailChimp makes additions or changes their API (within a major API version). I like that a lot.

It would be simple to hard code a list of categories (templates, users, lists, etc.) that MailChimp exposes via the API but this if MailChimp adds another category. Admittedly, this doesn't happen often.

The problem you point out happens one level deeper as well when actually calling a given method (and corresponding endpoint). Fixing this would either require making a request to the API and inspecting the response (404 return false, 500 return true, for example) or hard coding a list of endpoints. I'm not a fan of hard coding the endpoints for the reason I mentioned above.

Thoughts?

[amro]

Robert, I've gone ahead and implemented the local part of this for the primary API and export APi. I don't want to implement the remote endpoint checking for categories themselves just yet. I'll release this soon.

[paneq]

@amro I didn't have time to answer earlier. Maybe it would make sense to implement respond_to? for namespaces and API calls that we already know that they exists and still let you call other methods which might hit newly added API endpoints and work properly but they won't be return true for respond_to? check?

Frankly, I would harcode the possible API endpoints and add them when new endpoint is added. After all, they are not added every day and if someone needs them, they will send pull request anyway probably. But if you don't wanna go that way for the reasons you mentioned, that is of course your privilege as the author and maintainer of the gem, which I am just happy using :)

[paneq]

Unfortunately, I am not sure what you mean by implemented the local part of this for the primary API and export API.

[amro]

Sorry for not being clear. I mean I've hard coded the categories (not end points) for the primary API and the end points for the export API.

Thanks for the feedback. I should release this soon.