bananaj

Simple api for accessing Mailchimp - Work in progess

Introduction

bananaj provides an Java wrapper for the MailChimp API 3.0. It is possible access your MailChimp data through Java.

How to use

Add to your project

This is still in alpha. If you encounter some bugs or issues, please feel free to report them to the Issues section.

Add this dependency to your pom.xml to use bananaj in your project.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.alexanderwe</groupId>
  <artifactId>bananaj</artifactId>
  <version>0.5.1</version>
</dependency>

or with Gradle

repositories {
    maven { url "http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2" }
}

dependencies {
    compile group: 'com.github.alexanderwe', name: 'bananaj', version: '0.5.1'
}

If you are not using Maven or Gradle you can download the latest fat jar from the releases section.

MailChimpObject class

Most of the com.github.alexanderwe.bananaj.model classes extend the MailChimpObject class.They are immutable, to prevent asynchronous data between the client and the MailChimp server. When you execute methods like object.changeName("new Name") the local and server data is updated simultaneously.

Most of the com.github.alexanderwe.bananaj.model classes can also be exported to JSON.

Initial com.github.alexanderwe.bananaj.connection

With the MailChimpConnection object you start to connect to your account. You can get all objects from this com.github.alexanderwe.bananaj.connection. First start with getting information about a list.

MailChimpConnection con = new MailChimpConnection("yourAPIkey");

Get a list

//Get all lists
List<MailChimpList> allLists = con.getLists();

//Get a single list
MailChimpList yourList = con.getList("ListID");

Create a list

Get Members

/*Get all members from a specific mailChimpList*/
 List<Member> membersOfList = yourList.getMembers(0,0); // Get all members, skip none
 List<Member> partOfMembers = yourList.getMembers(5,2); // Get first 5 members, but skip 2 members 

/*You can also get a specific member by specifying it's id*/
Member memberOfList = yourList.getMember("MemberID");

Create template

To create an email template simply specify a template name and the upload the pure html code to MailChimp

con.addTemplate("templateName", "htmlCode");

Create campaign

To create an email template simply specify a template name and the upload the pure html code to MailChimp

MailChimpList myList = con.getList("myListId");
CampaignSettings settings = new CampaignSettings.Builder()
		.title("myTitle")
		.subject_line("mySubject")
		.to_name("*|FNAME|*")
		.from_name("myRobot")
		.reply_to("myEmail@my.domain.com")
		.template_id(12345)
		.build();
Campaign campaign = con.createCampaign(CampaignType.REGULAR, myList, settings);

Upload a file to FileManager

MailChimp offers the opportunity to insert images and other files to your emails. To upload a file to MailChimp create a FileManager and specify the file you want to upload.

FileManager fileManager = new FileManager(mailchimpconnection);

File myFile = new File("pathToYourFile");
  
//Upload a file
fileManager.upload("filename", myFile);
  
//Upload a file to a folder
fileManager.upload("folder_id","filename", myFile);

Download a file

To download a file from the MailChimp File Manager you have to specifiy the file you want to download and the directory in which it should be saved after download. The file extension is set automatically.

fileManager.getFileManagerFile("fileID").download("./") //Download a file in the current directory

Methods

Every endpoint supports GET, POST, and DELETE requests. So it is possible to fully control your MailChimp objects with this wrapper.

Endpoints used

• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/campaign-folders"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/campaigns"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/template-folders"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/templates"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/automations"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/file-manager/folders"
• "https://"+server+".api.mailchimp.com/3.0/file-manager/files"

To do

• Add missing edit function to the different endpoints

Contributors

Thanks a lot to all contributors:

• gscriver
• bphilipnyc
• icu222much

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 - 2018 Alexander Weiß

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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