How to pass params for Vend Api? - json

Question

I am trying to use VEND API but I have no clue how to pass parameters for doing various things. I found a set of codes in the API doc but can't get through it. Below is what I been up to.
<?php
/**
*
* A class made for utility methods around Vend's API
*
*
*/
class VendApiUtils {
/**
* A simple static method to call Vend API urls
*
* #param string $url
* #param string $username
* #param string $password
* #param array $params <OPTIONAL>
*/
public static function requestVendApiUrl($url, $username, $password, $params = array())
{
// is cURL installed?
if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
throw new Exception('CURL is not installed!');
}
// Create a new cURL instance
$ch = curl_init();
$opts = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('data' => json_encode($params)),
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120,
CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => 1,
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_ANY,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => "$username:$password"
);
// Assign the cURL options
curl_setopt_array($ch, $opts);
// Get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($response);
// Close cURL
curl_close($ch);
// Execute the request & get the response
echo $response;
}
}
$your_domain='https://mydomain.vendhq.com';
$your_username='myuser';
$your_password='mypass';
$params = array('GET'=>'/api/stock_movements');
$response = VendApiUtils::requestVendApiUrl($your_domain, $your_username,$your_password, $params);
//echo $response;
?>
Any Help would be highly appreicated.
Regards,
Abnab

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you think the URL needs to go into the $params array; that looks to me like the place for, well, params. I think the function is intended to be used more like this:
// Fixed parts, same for any request
$domain='https://mydomain.vendhq.com';
$username='myuser';
$password='mypass';
// Variable parts, depending on what you want to do
$url = '/api/stock_movements';
$params = array('some_key' => 'some_value');
$response = VendApiUtils::requestVendApiUrl($domain . $url, $username, $password, $params);

Answer 2

Please check pyvend client library.