MYOB Api

MYOB Api is an interface for accessing MYOB's AccountRight Live API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'myob-api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install myob-api

Usage

OAuth Authentication

If you've already got an OAuth access token, feel free to skip to API Client Setup.

The MYOB API uses 3 legged OAuth2. If you don't want to roll your own, or use the OmniAuth strategy you can authenticate using the get_access_code_url and get_access_token methods that ghiculescu has provided like so:

class MYOBSessionController  
  def new
    redirect_to myob_client.get_access_code_url
  end

  def create
    @token         = myob_client.get_access_token(params[:code])
    @company_files = myob_client.company_file.all
    # then show the user a view where they can log in to their company file
  end

  def myob_client
    @api_client = Myob::Api::Client.new({
      :consumer => {
        :key    => YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY,
        :secret => YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET,
      },
    })
  end
end

API Client Setup

Create an api_client:

api_client = Myob::Api::Client.new({
  :consumer => {
    :key    => YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY,
    :secret => YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  },
  :access_token => YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN,
})

If you have a refresh token (the Myob API returns one by default) you can use that too:

api_client = Myob::Api::Client.new({
  :consumer => {
    :key    => YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY,
    :secret => YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  },
  :access_token  => YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN,
  :refresh_token => YOUR_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN,
})

Or if you know which Company File you want to access too:

api_client = Myob::Api::Client.new({
  :consumer => {
    :key    => YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY,
    :secret => YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET,
  },
  :access_token  => YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN,
  :refresh_token => YOUR_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN,
  :company_file  => {
    :name     => COMPANY_FILE_NAME,
    :username => COMPANY_FILE_USERNAME,
    :password => COMPANY_FILE_PASSWORD,
  },
})

API Methods

Company Files

Before using the majority of API methods you will need to have selected a Company File. If you've already selected one when creating the client, feel free to ignore this.

Return a list of company files:

api_client.company_file.all

Select a company file to work with

api_client.select_company_file({
  :id       => COMPANY_FILE_ID,
  :username => COMPANY_FILE_USERNAME,
  :password => COMPANY_FILE_PASSWORD,
})

Contacts

Return a list of all contacts

api_client.contact.all

Customers

Return a list of all customers (a subset of contacts)

api_client.customer.all

Employees

Return a list of all employees

api_client.employee.all

Invoices

Return a list of all invoices

api_client.invoice.all

Pagination

Basic pagination based on NextPageLink parameter returned via API

first_page = api_client.contact.all
second_page = api_client.contact.next_page if api_client.contact.next_page?

You can also get an array of all items (which may make several API calls in the background):

api_client.contact.all_items # note this returns an array, *not* a hash the way `api_client.contact.all` does

Fetching one entity

Return an entity with given UID:

contact = api_client.contact.find(contact_uid)

Creating an entity

To create a new entity, call #save on its model, passing through a hash that represents the entity. Refer to the MYOB API documentation for required fields.

api_client.employee.save({'FirstName' => 'John', 'LastName' => 'Smith', 'IsIndividual' => true})

Updating an entity

To update an existing entity, call #save on its model, passing through a hash you got from the API. This hash should include a UID parameter (which is included by default when you get the data).

user = api_client.employee.all["Items"].last
user['FirstName'] = 'New First Name'
api_client.employee.save(user)

Todo

• Expand API methods
• Refactor client factory architecture
• Tests

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request