timestamp_api

Timestamp API

This gem is an unofficial set of Ruby bindings for the Timestamp API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "timestamp_api"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install timestamp_api

Usage

Configure your Timestamp API key by setting environment variable TIMESTAMP_API_KEY:

$ TIMESTAMP_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY" bin/console

Or set it manually from the console:

TimestampAPi.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Clients

List clients:

TimestampAPI::Client.all # => Returns all clients

Find a given client:

client = TimestampAPI::Client.find(123)

client.name # => "My beloved customer"

Projects

List projects:

TimestampAPI::Project.all # => Returns all projects

Find a given project:

project = TimestampAPI::Project.find(123)

project.name                            # => "My awesome project"
project.client.name                     # => "My beloved customer"
project.enter_time(123, Date.today, 60) # => Creates a 60 minutes time entry for today on task 123 and returns the created TimeEntry

Users

List users:

TimestampAPI::User.all # => Returns all users

Find a given user:

user = TimestampAPI::User.find(123)

user.full_name # => "Great developer"

Tasks

List tasks:

TimestampAPI::Task.all                 # => Returns all tasks
TimestampAPI::Task.for_project_id(123) # => Returns tasks for project 123

Find a given task:

task = TimestampAPI::Task.find(123)

task.name         # => "My fantastic task"
task.project.name # => "My awesome project"

TimeEntry

List time entries:

TimestampAPI::TimeEntry.all              # => Returns all time entries
TimestampAPI::TimeEntry.for_task_id(123) # => Returns time entries for task 123

Find a given time entry:

time_entry = TimestampAPI::TimeEntry.find(123)

time_entry.comment        # => "Stuff got done"
time_entry.client.name    # => "My beloved customer"
time_entry.project.name   # => "My awesome project"
time_entry.task.name      # => "My fantastic task"
time_entry.user.full_name # => "Great developer"

Event

List events:

TimestampAPI::Event.all # => Returns all events

Find a given event:

event = TimestampAPI::Event.find(123)

event.object # => Returns the object on which event occured

Objects representation

Models

The objects are represented by model classes (that inherits from TimestampAPI::Model):

project = TimestampAPI::Project.find(123456)

project.class                     # => TimestampAPI::Project
project.is_a? TimestampAPI::Model # => true

Collections

Collections of objects are represented by TimestampAPI::Collection that inherits from Array (and implement the chainable .where(conditions) filter method described above). It means any Array method works on TimestampAPI::Collection:

projects = TimestampAPI::Project.all

projects.class       # => TimestampAPI::Collection
projects.map(&:name) # => ["A project", "Another project", "One more project"]

Relationships

Models can can bound together and are accessible using a simple getter:

Exemple: find the client bound to a project:

project = TimestampAPI::Project.find(123)

project.client.name # => "My beloved customer"

:information_source: First call to such a relation getter will trigger an API request and memoize the response for network optimization.

Filtering

You can filter any object collection using the handy .where() syntax:

projects = TimestampAPI::Project.all

projects.where(is_public: true)                          # => returns all public projects
projects.where(is_public: true, is_billable: true)       # => returns all projects that are both public and billable
projects.where(is_public: true).where(is_billable: true) # => same as above: `where` is chainable \o/

:information_source: This does not filter objects before the network call (like ActiveRecord does), it's only a more elegant way of calling Array#select on the Collection

Low level API calls

The above methods are simple wrappers around the generic low-level-ish API request method TimestampAPI.request that take a HTTP method (verb) and a path (to be appended to preconfigured API endpoint URL):

TimestampAPI.request(:get, "/projects")        # Same as TimestampAPI::Project.all
TimestampAPI.request(:get, "/projects/123456") # Same as TimestampAPI::Project.find(123456)

To output all network requests done, you can set verbosity on:

TimestampAPI.verbose = true

Reverse engineering

As the API is not documented nor even officially supported by Timestamp, we're trying to reverse-engineer it.

:warning: This means that Timestamp can introduce breaking changes within their API without prior notice at any time (and thus break this gem).

It also means that if you're willing to hack into it with us, you're very welcome :+1:

While logged in, the Timestamp API data can be explored from your favourite browser (with a JSON viewer addon, if needed) here: https://api.ontimestamp.com/api

There's also a bin/console executable provided with this gem, if you want a REPL to hack around.

What's implemented already ?

• Project model
• Client model
• Task model
• User model (their roles could be enhanced, though)
• TimeEntry model
• Event model
• belongs_to relationships

What's not implemented yet ?

• all other models :scream:
• has_many relationships
• document and integrate Inch-CI
• timers

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

• Fork it ( https://github.com/alpinelab/timestamp_api/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request

License

This code is distributed by Alpine Lab under the terms of the MIT license.

See LICENCE.md