Month: February 2012

For a bit of fun round a project last year I created some Moo “MQTT Inside” stickers to put on the cases.

These became very popular around the office, with everybody wanting to label up their MQTT enabled projects and the first batch of 90 quickly disappeared.

Given demand was so high Andy Piper suggested it might be worth making it possible for others to order their own sets and pointed me at the Moo API.

The Moo API Doc is pretty good, but there aren’t any examples so it took a bit of trial and error. The API works by building up an object called a ‘pack‘. The Moo website uses the same API for the wizard you use to manually create any of their products and there is a very nice little Greasemonkey script called ‘Show API JSON’ which shows you the state of the pack object at each step. The API also lets you skip any steps in the process by just uploading a pack object already filled in. This meant I could reproduce the stickers by choosing to edit my original set and then using the script to save the pack.json file.

{
    "productVersion" : "1",
    "cards" : [
    ],
    "numCards" : 90,
    "extras" : [
        {
            "value" : "blue",
            "key" : "pack_colour"
        }
    ],
    "imageBasket" : {
        "name" : null,
        "immutable" : false,
        "items" : [
            {
                "cacheId" : "partner_interface_uploader:e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                "imageBox" : null,
                "imageItems" : [
                    {
                        "rotation" : 0,
                        "height" : 297,
                        "resourceUri" : "http://www.moo.com/is/o/e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                        "width" : 297,
                        "type" : "print"
                    },
                    {
                        "rotation" : 0,
                        "height" : 1024,
                        "resourceUri" : "http://www.moo.com/is/r/1024/e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                        "width" : 1024,
                        "type" : "preview"
                    },
                    {
                        "rotation" : 0,
                        "height" : 75,
                        "resourceUri" : "http://www.moo.com/is/t/75/e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                        "width" : 75,
                        "type" : "thumbnail"
                    }
                ],
                "copyrightOwner" : null,
                "resourceUri" : "filestore://image_original/e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                "croppable" : true,
                "shouldEnhance" : false,
                "type" : "front",
                "removable" : true
            }
        ],
        "type" : null
    },
    "productCode" : "sticker",
    "sides" : [
        {
            "type" : "image",
            "data" : [
                {
                    "imageStoreFileId" : "e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34",
                    "resourceUri" : "filestore://image_original/e34bb9c2-637b-558545db-4e61502d-ff34.png",
                    "linkId" : "variable_image_front",
                    "enhance" : false,
                    "imageBox" : {
                        "center" : {
                            "y" : 12,
                            "x" : 12
                        },
                        "height" : 20.88,
                        "width" : 20.88,
                        "angle" : 0
                    },
                    "type" : "imageData"
                }
            ],
            "templateCode" : "sticker_image",
            "sideNum" : 1
        }
    ]
}

Resubmitting this with the ‘moo.pack.createPack‘ method and then using the ‘finish’ Drop in point to direct the user to Moo checkout page to pay for their new stickers.

I used a little library called scrib to do the oAuth and the whole thing can be done with just these few lines:

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
	String authTokenString = request.getParameter("oauth_token");
	String authVerifyString = request.getParameter("oauth_verifier");
	
	Token authToken = MemoryStore.data.get(authTokenString);
	MemoryStore.data.remove(authTokenString);
	
	Verifier verifier = new Verifier(authVerifyString);
	Token accessToken = service.getAccessToken(authToken, verifier);
    
	String createPack = rootURL + "method=moo.pack.createPack&product=sticker&pack=" + pack;
	createPack = createPack + "&friendlyName=" + URLEncoder.encode("MQTT Inside", "UTF-8");

	OAuthRequest oAuthRequest = new OAuthRequest(Verb.POST, createPack);
    
	service.signRequest(accessToken, oAuthRequest);
	Response oAuthResponse = oAuthRequest.send();
	if (oAuthResponse.getCode() == 200) {
		System.err.println(oAuthResponse.getBody());
		JSONTokener tok = new JSONTokener(oAuthResponse.getBody());
		try {
			JSONObject json = new JSONObject(tok);
			JSONObject dropings = json.getJSONObject("dropIns");
			String finishURL = dropings.getString("finish");
			response.sendRedirect(finishURL);
		} catch (JSONException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	} else {
		System.err.println(oAuthResponse.getBody());
	}
}

Andy is working to get a page set up on the mqtt.org site, but in the mean time you can click on the image bellow to order own set.

EDIT:

Andy has now added a Goodies page to the mqtt.org site that you can use to order stickers