Benjamin Oakes

Hi, I'm Ben Oakes and this is my geek blog. Currently, I'm a Ruby/JavaScript Developer at Continuity Control. Previously, I was a Software Developer at Hedgeye, a Research Assistant in the Early Social Cognition Lab at Yale University and a student at the University of Iowa. I also organize ICRuby and OpenHack Iowa City, and previously organized NewHaven.rb. I have an amazing wife named Danielle Oakes.

VRAPI2.NO_EMAIL_OR_POSTAL_ADDRESS_PROVIDED

September 19th, 2012 by Ben

I ran into an error with the VerticalResponse API today, and to my surprise there were no results when searching on Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. Not even in the VerticalResponse documentation!

The error was:

A general API error occurred: "VRAPI2.NO_EMAIL_OR_POSTAL_ADDRESS_PROVIDED" - "no email or postal address was provided, but at least one is required"

I tracked it down to a call to editListMember, which I guessed didn’t include the email_address in member_data. After adding it, the error message has gone away.

At any rate, there will now be a result if someone else searches for the error message. :)