Re: [DUG] Xero private API (OAuth)

[Robert Martin]

That's exactly the issue I had with their PHP docs ! On 11/07/2014 3:38 p.m., Jolyon Smith wrote: Rob, no worries. The biggest problem I had with their documentation was the lack of fully worked examples, leaving far to much to guesswork/clairvoyance.  And in some places their docs contained contradictory examples.  You shouldn't have to figure out which 1 of N examples is actually the one you should be following!  Grrr.  :) On 11 July 2014 15:34, Robert Martin <r...@chreos.co.nz> wrote: Hi I really appreciated your help with this and I did consider building it in D2007 to test the unicode thing (as suggested), however I just couldn't justify spending any more time on it!  While I am ranting about documentation... With regards to the Xero documentation, I didn't find the stuff I looked at too bad.  However I do think if you are going to provide a PHP framework / class to access your services, you should at least include a basic example of how it is used.  The web site had some calls but didn't show the class involved.  I had to trace back through the class source code to find out what the calls were and what values I should pass.  Kind of defeats the whole purpose of black box programming! Cheers Rob  On 11/07/2014 2:06 p.m., Jolyon Smith wrote: Simply changing all relevant declarations explicitly to ANSIChar / ANSIString in the Flow code should have addressed any Unicode issues (similarly knocking up a p.o.c in pre-Unicode version of Delphi would have determined if this were the issue). I would not rule out the possibility that Xero have changed something on their end which has broken the Flow code - it has happened in the past and as ever with OAuth you get no clues to go on as to what might be the problem.  It doesn't help that unless things have changed since I was wrestling with it, the Xero documentation is not exactly a shining example of the art  (and from a quick look, it doesn't appear to have changed at all since then). If that is the case then using their provided wrappers is likely the most reliable approach, if a little "clunky".  :) On 11 July 2014 12:06, Robert Martin <r...@chreos.co.nz> wrote: Hi Alister I have my OAuth stuff working!!!!! After literally days of trying to get OAuth going in Delphi I gave up.  Instead I used the Xero provided framework for PHP and built a PHP interface between my Delphi app and it.  So instead of doing;  Delphi app -> Build XML & command -> OAuth sign -> Http to Xero -> Response -> Delphi app I now have  Delphi app -> Build XML & command ->  My custom PHP script -> PHP OAuth sign using Xero framework -> Http to Xero -> Response -> My Custom PHP script -> Delphi app. Works like a charm.  obviously I have had to provide my own security between the Delphi app and my custom framework but that wasn't too difficult.  I strogly suspect the issues I was having were related to Unicode Delphi and the non unicode code that I got from Cameron.  It was just too hard to debug as I couldn't see what my output should be vs what it was. Cheers Rob On 11/07/2014 11:49 a.m., Alister Christie wrote: With regards to OAuth you could try using TMS Cloud Pack.  I've used it for connecting to TradeMe, although still required a bit of work.​ Alister. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@listserver.123.net.nz with Subject: unsubscribe No virus found in this message. 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