[ic] ups-query problem.

[Rick Bragg]

On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 16:51 +0300, Gert van der Spoel wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-
> > users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Rick Bragg
> > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:13 PM
> > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > Subject: Re: [ic] ups-query problem.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:57 -0500, Steve Graham wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have the following ups-query tag:
> > > >
> > > > [ups-query
> > > >    weight=5
> > > >    origin=05404
> > > >    zip=90210
> > > >    country=US
> > > >    mode=GNDRES
> > > > ]
> > > >
> > > > This returns $10.29.
> > > >
> > > > However, when I look up the same on the UPS website, I get the
> > > > following:
> > > >
> > > > UPS Ground:      13.56 USD
> > > > Fuel Surcharge:   0.47  USD
> > > > Total:           14.03 USD
> > > >
> > > > Seems the farther the distance, and faster the method I use, the
> > bigger
> > > > the spread, ouch!  Creating code to try do compensate for this is
> > just a
> > > > bad idea.  It will pretty much never be right.
> > > >
> > > > This has actually been a long time problem as far as I can tell,
> > but I
> > > > never really needed to use this until now.
> > > >
> > > > Is ups-query no longer used? What is going on with this?  Anybody?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Rick
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you look in the ups_cache table to see If there are old values
> > stored?
> > >
> > > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just emptied the ups_cache table, and it created the following new
> > row
> > again with $10.29.
> > 
> > code 	weight 	origin 	zip 	country 	shipmode 	cost
> > 	updated
> > 1 	5 	05404 	90210 	US 	GNDRES 	10.29
> > 	1250427373
> > 
> > 
> > Checking again at the UPS website today with their on-line calculator,
> > I
> > get the following price for the same Ground Residential shipment:
> > 
> > UPS Ground   	 13.56 USD
> > Fuel Surcharge
> > 	0.47  USD
> > Charges Per Package 	14.03 USD
> > Shipment Total: 	14.03 USD
> > 
> > 
> > Is this happening to anyone else?
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Idea the same as before, chewing it out a bit further. [ups-query] uses
> Business::UPS to do the query.
> So, as mentioned before, try it out without Interchange, using the module
> itself:
> 
> #!/your/path/to/perl
> 
> use Business::UPS;
> 
> my ($shipping,$ups_zone,$error) = getUPS(qw/GNDRES 05404 90210 5/);
> $error and die "ERROR: $error\n";
> print "Shipping is \$$shipping\n";
> print "UPS Zone is $ups_zone\n";
> 
> ~# ./test.pl
> Shipping is $10.29
> UPS Zone is 008
> 
> So from the looks of it Business::UPS does not return the correct data ...
> In that case you probably need to talk to the person who is responsible for
> this module:
> http://search.cpan.org/~msolomon/Business-UPS-1.13/UPS.pm
> 
> Considering the latest release is 6 years old there are chances this is not
> anymore working as it should.
> 
> Perhaps there are other Interchange people who actually use [ups-query] tag
> and if you are awfully lucky they might reply how they have solved it... Or
> if you are even luckier there is someone who has a better solution for this.
> 
> This is all I can tell from available data.
> 
> CU,
> 
> Gert
> 


I have just un-installed Business::UPS version 1.13, and installed
version 2.0, and now I get the following error when I restart IC (5.6.1)


Calling UI...Warning while compiling UserTag 'ups_query':

	"my" variable $result masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Business/UPS.pm line 97, <SYSTAG> line 154.

...UI is loaded...


I'm not sure what to do at this point.  How does one get shipping prices
from UPS?

thanks
Rick


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