Change Request : V3 event update - allow POST as well as PATCH

[Andrew Murphy]

Hi

The library I'm using (perl's LWP::UserAgent)  just has GET POST DELETE etc. but not PATCH

So its fine for the V2 update event

But V3 update event uses PATCH..

Could it use POST as well

Thanks

Andrew

[Doug Tangren]

Hi Andrew,

Would it work if you constructed an Http::Request ( http://search.cpan.org/~ether/HTTP-Message-6.11/lib/HTTP/Request.pm ) directly? It looks like you can pass the HTTP method directly into that type's constructor. I looks like you can then pass that to instance's of perl's UserAgents.

 

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[Doug Tangren]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Doug Tangren <do...@meetup.com> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Murphy <aavm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

The library I'm using (perl's LWP::UserAgent)  just has GET POST DELETE etc. but not PATCH

So its fine for the V2 update event

But V3 update event uses PATCH..

Could it use POST as well

Thanks

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Would it work if you constructed an Http::Request ( http://search.cpan.org/~ether/HTTP-Message-6.11/lib/HTTP/Request.pm ) directly? It looks like you can pass the HTTP method directly into that type's constructor. I looks like you can then pass that to instance's of perl's UserAgents.

Something like

require HTTP::Request;

$request = HTTP::Request->new(PATCH => 'https://api.meetup.com/{your-group}/events/{event_id}');

[Andrew Murphy]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a try.

In the meantime, I also raised an issue with perl's LWP module to add 'PATCH'. 

Its been accepted, and is targeted for the next release.

Andrew

[Doug Tangren]

On Mar 23, 2017 9:03 AM, "Andrew Murphy" <aavm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a try.

In the meantime, I also raised an issue with perl's LWP module to add 'PATCH'. 

Its been accepted, and is targeted for the next release.

Andrew

Nice. Happy to be a motivator.

On Sunday, 26 February 2017 19:29:08 UTC, Doug Tangren wrote:

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Doug Tangren <do...@meetup.com> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Murphy <aavm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

The library I'm using (perl's LWP::UserAgent)  just has GET POST DELETE etc. but not PATCH

So its fine for the V2 update event

But V3 update event uses PATCH..

Could it use POST as well

Thanks

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Would it work if you constructed an Http::Request ( http://search.cpan.org/~ether/HTTP-Message-6.11/lib/HTTP/Request.pm ) directly? It looks like you can pass the HTTP method directly into that type's constructor. I looks like you can then pass that to instance's of perl's UserAgents.

Something like

require HTTP::Request;

$request = HTTP::Request->new(PATCH => 'https://api.meetup.com/{your-group}/events/{event_id}');

 

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[Jonathan C]

Andrew: Did you get this to work? I have been unable to get PATCH to work even with HTTP::Request. Specifically, I'm trying to set the "lon" and "lat" of an event, but I use the "key" authentication method. Whereas I could use v2 methods with POST, the v3 PATCH is not working, either because it may not accept "key" auth (I can't be sure in docs), or maybe I have the JSON body incorrect.

How did you finally get it to work?

Which auth method used?

Thx,

Jonathan

[Andrew Murphy]

Hi,

yes and no

i did get PATCH to work. You need the latest version of HTTP::Request::Common;

but there were a few undocumented gotchas

i seem to remember something like you could create an event with a lat/lon, but then you couldnt update that event with v3 PATCH

so i stuck to creating venue id's manually, and hard-coding them into my script

i only use key authentication

use LWP::UserAgent;

use HTTP::Request::Common;

use JSON;

$url =  "https://api.meetup.com/$MEETUP_GROUP_URL}/events" . ( $s_event_new ? "" : "/$meetup_id" ) ;

#NB: in %fields, $fields{time} is unix_time * 1,000

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$request = HTTP::Request::Common::PATCH( $url, [ %fields ] );

$response   = $ua->request( $request );
$http_status_code    = $response->code();
$content = $response->decoded_content();
$data   = eval{ from_json ( $content ) };

[Jonathan C]

Andrew: Thanks. For now I'll stick with v2 POST which I got working. Will keep these notes for when I have to move to v3 APIs.