I'm testing out the Fullcontact API to retrieve information about specific people. If the person that I'm looking up with their API doesn't exist in their database it would return a 404 Not found error. I'm trying to get around that by retrieving other usernames, but it's not working. Here's the code:
person = FullContact.person(email: 'wilson@wilsontest.com')
if person.to_i > 400
person = FullContact.person(email: 'wilsonp@gmail.com')
else
person = FullContact.person(email: 'wilson@wilsontest.com')
end
p person
This still displays the 404 Not found when the email isn't found.
If you're using the fullcontact-api-ruby
gem, the FullContact.person
call should raise a FullContact::NotFound
error if the person doesn't exist. You'd need to rescue that error to try something else:
def get_person
emails ||= ['wilson@wilsontest.com', 'wilsonp@gmail.com']
person = FullContact.person(email: emails.shift)
rescue FullContact::NotFound
unless emails.empty?
retry
else
# bottom line
end
end
Note that exceptions are pretty slow in Ruby, and you're also hitting an external API, so be mindful of the response time here.