Contributing additional helper methods for the evernote SDK

[captn3m0]

As part of an app I'm working on, I extended the Evernote::EDAM::NoteStore::NoteStore::Client class to add a few helper methods. The method signatures are as follows:

• find_notebook(name) - Find a notebook with given name
• create_notebook(name) - Create a notebook with given name, which calls Evernote::EDAM::Type::Notebook.new() for you
• find_or_create_notebook(name) - Search for a notebook by name, and return either that or create a new notebook and return that.

Currently the code is abstracted in an EvernoteUtil class of mine, but I'd be willing to try to patch it back to the sdk. However, I'd like to know if this repo even accepts contributions and if such contributions (adding helper methods not in official API) might be accepted.

[nozpheratu]

I appreciate all the work that went into this project, but the public API is a little rough around the edges. @sethhitch you guys accepting public contributions at all?

[captn3m0]

@nozpheratu I'd say you should take a look at other evernote API wrappers instead.

[nozpheratu]

@captn3m0 I saw the evernote_util project, but I think there should be one go-to gem that everyone uses. Having wrappers on-top of wrappers just needlessly complicates things IMO.

[captn3m0]

Yes. I agree. I wish I was conversant with Thrift. The issue is that since its a thrift-based API, its cumbersome to right a gem that does not use Thrift (which screws everything up).

I even wrote a rant on the Evernote API.

[nozpheratu]

@captn3m0 FWIW, I don't think anybody is conversant with thrift. :/