eParcel Ruby Gem

This is a Ruby wrapper for the Australia Post eParcel API.

The wrapper is based on Australia Post's Shipping and Tracking APIs.

This project is not affiliated with Australia Post.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'eparcel'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install eparcel

Usage

Configuration

Authentication

client = Eparcel::Client.new(
	account_number: 00000000001,
    api_key: 'API KEY',
    api_password: 'YOUR PASSWORD',
    partner_id: 'XXXXXXXXXXX-0000', #optional, adds the AUSPOST-PARTNER-ID header to all HTTP requests
    sandbox: true)

Fetch Shipments

response = client.retrieve(number_of_shipments: 370, status: ['Created'])
shipments = shipments_response.shipments

Create Domestic Shipment

# create shipment client
eparcel_shipment_client = client.domestic_shipment

# Delivery Address
address = {}
address["name"] = "JOHN SMITH"
address["business_name"] = "AUSPOST"
address["lines"]["1 George Street"] # array up to 4 lines
address["suburb"] = "SYDNEY"
address["state"] = "NSW"
address["postcode"] = "2000"
address["phone"] = "1300000000"

item = {}

item["item_reference"] = 'My Item Reference' # your reference for the article
item["product_id"] = 'J131' # eParcel Product Code
item["length"] = 10 # length in cm
item["width"] = 10 # length in cm
item["height"] = 10 # length in cm
item["weight"] = 1.2 # weight in kg


# Create the shipment object
shipment = {
	shipment_reference: "Shipment Reference",
	customer_reference_1: "Ref 1",
	customer_reference_2: "Ref 2",
	email_tracking_enabled: false
	to: address, 
    from: address,
	items: [item]
}

# Ask Australia Post to create the shipment from the shipment object. 
@shipments = @eparcel_shipment.create([shipment])

Cancel Shipment

# cancel a shipment that has been created with Australia Post
response = @shipments_client.destroy('SHIPMENTID')

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/schappim/eparcel.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.