Aston

The tiny library providing a tooling to deal with ASTON, which is like JSON, but isomorphic to XML.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'aston'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install aston

Usage

Aston.new(:root).
    then { |a| a.put_attribute([:bar, :baz], 'attr', 'value') }.
    then { |a| a.put_content([:bar, :baz], 'Hello, world!') }
#⇒ #<Aston:0x0000646926a11370
#  @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000646926a112f8 @data={}>,
#  @content=
#   #<Aston::Content:0x0000646926a112d0
#    @data=
#     [#<Aston:0x0000646926a110f0
#       @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000646926a11078 @data={}>,
#       @content=
#        #<Aston::Content:0x0000646926a11050
#         @data=
#          [#<Aston:0x0000646926a10f38
#            @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000646926a10ec0 @data={"attr"=>"value"}>,
#            @content=#<Aston::Content:0x0000646926a10e98 @data=["Hello, world!"]>,
#            @name=:baz>]>,
#       @name=:bar>]>,
#  @name=:root>

#to_s

puts Aston.new(:root).
        then { |a| a.put_attribute([:bar, :baz], 'attr', 'value') }.
        then { |a| a.put_content([:bar, :baz], "Hello, world!") }.
        to_s

<!-- Aston:1380:root -->
<root>
    <!-- Aston:1400:bar -->
    <bar>
        <!-- Aston:1420:baz -->
        <baz attr='value'>
            Hello, world!
        </baz>
    </bar>
</root>

#to_json

puts Aston.new(:root).
        then { |a| a.put_attribute([:bar, :baz], 'attr', 'value') }.
        then { |a| a.put_content([:bar, :baz], "Hello, world!") }.
        to_json
#⇒ {"name":"root","attributes":{},"content":[
#     {"name":"bar","attributes":{},"content":[
#        {"name":"baz","attributes":{"attr":"value"},"content":["Hello, world!"]}]}]}

Aston#parse_hash

json = Aston.new(:root).
         then { |a| a.put_attribute([:bar, :baz], 'attr', 'value') }.
         then { |a| a.put_content([:bar, :baz], "Hello, world!") }.
         to_json
Aston.parse_hash(JSON.parse(json))
#⇒ #<Aston:0x0000643279caa890
#  @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279caa868 @data={}>,
#  @content=
#   #<Aston::Content:0x0000643279caa840
#    @data=
#     [#<Aston:0x0000643279caa930
#       @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279caa908 @data={}>,
#       @content=
#        #<Aston::Content:0x0000643279caa8e0
#         @data=
#          [#<Aston:0x0000643279caa9d0
#            @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279caa9a8 @data={"attr"=>"value"}>,
#            @content=#<Aston::Content:0x0000643279caa980 @data=["Hello, world!"]>,
#            @name="baz">]>,
#       @name="bar">]>,
#  @name="root">

#update_in

a = Aston.new :aston, attributes: { foo: :bar }
a.put_attribute %i[bar baz], :ok, 42
a.put_content %i[bar baz], 'Hello'
a.update_in %i[bar baz] do |content|
  content <<
    Aston.new(:seq, attributes: { name: :seq1 }) <<
    Aston.new(:seq, attributes: { name: :seq2 }) <<
    Aston.new(:seq, attributes: { name: :seq3 })
end

#⇒ [#<Aston:0x0000643279c616e0
#   @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279c61668 @data={:ok=>42}>,
#   @content=
#    #<Aston::Content:0x0000643279c61640
#     @data=
#      ["Hello",
#       #<Aston:0x0000643279c60d58
#        @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279c60d08 @data={:name=>:seq1}>,
#        @content=#<Aston::Content:0x0000643279c60ce0 @data=[]>,
#        @name=:seq>,
#       #<Aston:0x0000643279c60c68
#        @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279c60c18 @data={:name=>:seq2}>,
#        @content=#<Aston::Content:0x0000643279c60bc8 @data=[]>,
#        @name=:seq>,
#       #<Aston:0x0000643279c60b50
#        @attributes=#<Aston::Attributes:0x0000643279c60b00 @data={:name=>:seq3}>,
#        @content=#<Aston::Content:0x0000643279c60ad8 @data=[]>,
#        @name=:seq>]>,
#   @name=:baz>]

#update_in returns an array of updated elements on the path given. Unlike #update_in.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Aston project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.