tubbz-alt / zen_ex

Zendesk REST API client for Elixir

zen_ex

Zendesk REST API client for Elixir

zen_ex is composed of Models and Entities. See Usage.

Installation

Add zen_ex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:zen_ex, "~> 0.4"}]
end

Update your dependencies:

% mix deps.get

Add your Zendesk settings to your config:

config :zen_ex,
  subdomain: "your-zendesk-subdomain",
  user: "[email protected]",
  api_token: "xxxx"

See also: Generating a new API token

Usage

# List users
users = ZenEx.Model.User.list.entities

# Show user
user = ZenEx.Model.User.show(1)

# Create user
user = ZenEx.Model.User.create(%ZenEx.Entity.User{name: "otoyo", email: "[email protected]"})

# List tickets
collection = ZenEx.Model.Ticket.list(per_page: 100, sort_order: "desc")
tickets = collection.entities
next_tickets = collection |> ZenEx.Collection.next

# Show ticket
ticket = ZenEx.Model.Ticket.show(1)

# Create ticket
ticket = ZenEx.Model.Ticket.create(%ZenEx.Entity.Ticket{subject: "My printer is on fire!", description: "But no problem."})

See also under ZenEx.Model.

Supporting multiple Zendesk configs

You may need to interact with more than one instance of Zendesk. In order to facilitate that there is a small override that can be put into the Process dictionary that will tell it to look for config settings keyed against a class name.

For example:

config/config.exs

config :zen_ex,
  subdomain: System.get_env("ZENDESK_SUBDOMAIN"),
  user: System.get_env("ZENDESK_USER_EMAIL"),
  api_token: System.get_env("ZENDESK_API_TOKEN")

config :zen_ex, ZendeskAlt,
  subdomain: System.get_env("ZENDESK_ALT_SUBDOMAIN"),
  user: System.get_env("ZENDESK_ALT_USER_EMAIL"),
  api_token: System.get_env("ZENDESK_ALT_API_TOKEN")

Then whenever you want to use the alternate config, before using anything in the zen_ex library make sure to add a line of code like the following:

Process.put(:zendesk_config_module, ZendeskAlt)

Anytime you use the zendesk library after that it will use the alternate config until you remove that process dictionary entry. It is good practice to put it back when you are done.

Process.put(:zendesk_config_module, nil)

If you do not add a :zendesk_config_module key to the Process dictionary then it will continue to use the default zen_ex config settings.

Supported API

Core API

• Users
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • create_or_update
  • destroy
  • create_many
  • update_many
  • create_or_update_many
  • destroy_many
  • search
• Tickets
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • destroy
  • create_many
  • update_many
  • destroy_many
• Dynamic contents
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • destroy
• Variants of dynamic contents
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • create_many
  • update
  • update_many
  • destroy
• Locales
  • show
• Job statuses
  • list
  • show
  • show_many

Help Center API

• Categories
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • destroy
• Sections
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • destroy
• Articles
  • list
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • search
  • destroy
• Translations
  • list
  • list_missing
  • show
  • create
  • update
  • destroy

Contributing

Contributions are welcome ;)

LICENSE

ZenEx is released under CC0-1.0 (see LICENSE).