EasyPost::Address, can they even be updated?

[iamvery]

I'm working with a use case where I'm attempting to create and verify an EasyPost::Address and then a little later add a name and company to the record in order to create a shipment. This will not work because once the Address record is created, the updated name and company attributes do not persist which leads to a missing information error during shipment creation.

I then came upon save and though this would be the answer to my persistence issue. I'm seeing an error when attempting to save the address record. Is this not an appropriate workflow? Is there a Right Way™ to update an existing record?

1.9.3p448 :004 > a = EasyPost::Address.create(street1: '1989 College Ave', zip: '30317')
 => #<EasyPost::Address: id=adr_qzMOzkRy> JSON: {"id":"adr_qzMOzkRy","object":"Address","created_at":"2013-10-07T15:38:02Z","updated_at":"2013-10-07T15:38:02Z","name":null,"company":null,"street1":"1989 College Ave","street2":null,"city":null,"state":null,"zip":"30317","country":"US","phone":null,"email":null,"mode":"test"}
1.9.3p448 :005 > a.name = 'BNR'
 => "BNR"
1.9.3p448 :006 > a.save
EasyPost::Error: (Status 404) Invalid response from API, unable to decode.
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/easypost-2.0.9/lib/easypost.rb:101:in `rescue in rescue in request'
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/easypost-2.0.9/lib/easypost.rb:98:in `rescue in request'
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/easypost-2.0.9/lib/easypost.rb:94:in `request'
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/easypost-2.0.9/lib/easypost/resource.rb:61:in `save'
        from (irb):6
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
        from /Users/jay/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@tappy/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
        from script/rails:6:in `require'
        from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

Thanks for the help and great API! 😄

[mbeale]

@iamvery ,

Currently we do not support updating the Address object. You would just need to create a new address object and associate that address to the shipment.

[iamvery]

@mbeale thanks for getting back to me 👍