module PostcodeSoftware

Provides postcode look up service for postcodesoftware.net

PostcodeSoftware.account  = 'myaccount'
PostcodeSoftware.password = 'mypassword'
response = PostcodeSoftware.look_up('LS18 4AB')

Attributes

account[RW]

Account for the service

password[RW]

Password for the service

Public Class Methods

look_up(postcode) click to toggle source

Looks up the given postcode and returns found addresses in a PostcodeSoftware::Response.

# File lib/postcode_software.rb, line 24
def self.look_up(postcode)
  Response.new(URI.open(sdk_url(postcode)))
end

sdk_url(postcode) click to toggle source

Returns the web SDK URL for the given postcode.

# File lib/postcode_software.rb, line 29
def self.sdk_url(postcode)
  [
    'http://ws1.postcodesoftware.co.uk/lookup.asmx/getAddress?account=',
    CGI::escape(account.to_s),
    '&password=',
    CGI::escape(password),
    '&postcode=',
    CGI.escape(postcode)
  ].join
end