substitutionData per recipient

[woodscreative]

Hi, it appears per recipient substitution data key is inconsistent consider the following:

$recipients = [
    [
        'name' => 'Foo',
        'email' => 'foo@example.com'
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'Bar',
        'email' => 'bar@example.com'
    ],
];
$mail[ 'substitutionData' ] = [
    'Company' => 'My Company Name - Works'
];
$mail 'subject' ] = 'Welcome to a Spark Post API Test';
$mail[ 'text' ] = 'Hi {{Name or 'Customer'}}, sent from {{Company}}';
$mail[ 'recipients' ] = [];
foreach ( $recipients as $recipient ) {
    $mail[ 'recipients' ][] = [
        'address' => [
          'name'    => $recipient[ 'name' ],
          'email'   => $recipient[ 'email' ]
        ],
        'substitutionData' => [
            'Name' => $recipient[ 'name' ] . ' - Nope'
        ],
        'substitution_data' => [
            'Name' => $recipient[ 'name' ] . '- Works'
        ]   
    ];
};

[richleland]

Thanks for pointing this out @woodscreative. I think this is because we don't wrap the API that far down for recipients, rather just pass those through to the API. @beardyman I wonder if there is something we could do to translate keys from title case to snake case automagically?

[martinjbaker]

Thanks @woodscreative I was going around in circles and couldn't work out why the data wasn't coming through to the template.

[richleland]

I'm going to leave this ticket open until we have the 2.x refactor out the door. We're planning on removing the parameterMapping, which is not only confusing to a lot of people, but causes exactly these types of problems.

[suntrop]

Sorry to hook into this issue … but I am more confused than before. Does it mean it is impossible to personalize emails sent via API?
At least I can’t get the addresses and substitutionData work together.

Currently I have my recipients …
$address[] = array( 'address' => array( 'email' => "first@example.com", 'name' => "John" ) ); $address[] = array( 'address' => array( 'email' => "second@example.net", 'name' => "Mary" ) );

How do I implement the substitutionData? Do they have to be in the $address array or do they need to be an array of its own? Perhaps I missed some part of the docs, but I can't find a good example.

[suntrop]

Ok, now I got it. That was like Where's Waldo

It is not substitutionData but substitution**_d**ata

$address[] = array(
    'address' => array(
        'email' => 'first@example.com'
        ),
    'substitution_data'=> array(
                'name'=>'John',
            )
);

$address[] = array(
    'address' => array(
        'email' => 'second@example.net'
        ),
    'substitution_data'=> array(
                'name'=>'Mary',
            )
);

[richleland]

Handled in 2.x branch via #121 and #122.

[richleland]

2.0 has been released: https://packagist.org/packages/sparkpost/sparkpost