README.md

Tableau-Authorize.Net

This is very small sample Tableau 9.1 web data connector to Authorize.Net just to show the capability how to load data from Authorize.Net directly to Tableau.

• I use getUnsettledTransactionListRequest call (just to illustrate the capability). Please see Authorize.Net documentation for more details http://developer.authorize.net/api/reference/index.html#transaction-reporting-get-unsettled-transaction-list

• in theory, the incremental refresh should work as well

• the way I handle keys is really not the way it should be done for production purposes. While convinient, it saves the keys with the actual report (persists the keys), not to mention it persists the keys in the Tableau bookmarks

• I use JSON calls, while still in beta I feel we should not go back to XML ever again for cases like this ;-)

• CSS comes from Saran Chamling and his really nice samples http://www.sanwebe.com/2014/08/css-html-forms-designs

thank you Brian for not killing me for my constant bitching about API standards

#How to run it

• get your Authorize.Net Sandbox Login ID and Transaction Key

• by default Transaction API is disabled, you have to login to Authorize.Net console and enable it

• simply clone this repo

• start simple web server e.g. python python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 or ruby ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8888 in the same directory

• open Tableau, select "Web Data Connector" as a datasource

• paste this link http://localhost:8888/AuthorizeNet.html

• use the Login ID and Transaction Key generated by Authorize.Net

#cURL calls

in case anybody wants to play with cURL and is wondering why Authorize.Net docs do not include simple cURL samples, here it is

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '
{
    "getUnsettledTransactionListRequest": {
        "merchantAuthentication": {
            "name": "YOUR_API_ID",
            "transactionKey": "TRANSACTION_KEY"
        }
    }
}
' https://apitest.authorize.net/xml/v1/request.api