November 28, 2015


Place quote order

Retrieve an order object from a quote and place an order based on it
require 'softlayer_api'

# Credentials to the SoftLayer API are grabbed from the config file by default.
# See https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-ruby/blob/master/lib/softlayer/Config.rb#L11-L44
client = SoftLayer::Client.new

QUOTE_ID = 1234

quote = client['Billing_Order_Quote'].object_with_id(QUOTE_ID)
order = quote.getRecalculatedOrderContainer['orderContainers'][0]

order['quantity'] = 1
order['virtualGuests'] = [{ 'hostname' => 'quotetest', 'domain' => 'example.com' }]
order.delete('hardware')

pp client['Product_Order'].placeOrder(order)

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