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LanterneRouge
LanterneRouge

Reputation: 199

Bigcommerce Ruby

I am referencing this: https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-api-ruby/blob/master/examples/products/product.rb

Here is the code:

# List products
@products = Bigcommerce::Product.all
puts @products

# Get a product
@product = @products[0]
puts Bigcommerce::Product.find(@product.id)

I understand the #list products, but it appears that #get a product is just pulling the first item in the array @products and displaying it?

I don't understand this: Bigcommerce::Product.find(@product.id)

End goal is to search @products for a specific property value. Like where SKU = some SKU or title = some time or price = some price, etc.

Also, is @products a hash or an array?

So confused. :(

Upvotes: 0

Views: 208

Answers (2)

Leo Brito
Leo Brito

Reputation: 2051

I understand the #list products, but it appears that #get a product is just pulling the first item in the array @products and displaying it?

Yes. It seems like just an example.

I don't understand this: Bigcommerce::Product.find(@product.id)

This returns a Product object with id == @product.id.

Also, is @products a hash or an array?

It is an array. See the documentation for ActiveRecord's all method.

EDIT In this API, SKU and Product are different resources (see product-related resources here). To search by SKU, you should do this:

# Get a product sku
puts Bigcommerce::Sku.find(@product.id, @sku.id)

See the example. SKUs contain a reference to their Product, so you can search by SKU and then get the Product you want.

EDIT 2 Bear in mind that Resources in this API are subclasses of Hashie::Trash, not ActiveRecord which would be more usual, so we can't rely on things like find_by.

Upvotes: 1

David Aldridge
David Aldridge

Reputation: 52396

@products looks like it should be a collection of instances of Bigcommerce::Product. Based on that, @product = @products[0] assigns to @product the first of the collection.

I do not understand:

puts Bigcommerce::Product.find(@product.id)

I would think that this would suffice:

puts @product

Upvotes: 1

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