Class: Atom::Entry

Inherits:

Object

Object
Atom::Entry

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Extended by:: Forwardable

Includes:: SimpleExtensions, Xml::Parseable

Defined in:: lib/atom.rb

Overview

Represents an Entry as defined by the Atom Syndication Format specification.

An Entry represents an individual entry within a Feed.

Parsing

An Entry can be parsed using the Entry.load_entry method. This method accepts a String containing a valid atom entry document, an IO object, or an URI to a valid atom entry document. For example:

# Using a File
entry = Entry.load_entry(File.open("/path/to/myfeedentry.atom"))

# Using a URL
Entry = Entry.load_entry(URI.parse("http://example.org/afeedentry.atom"))

The document must contain a stand alone entry element as described in the Atom Syndication Format.

Encoding

A Entry can be converted to XML using, the to_xml method that returns a valid atom entry document in a String.

Attributes

An entry has the following attributes:

id: A unique id for the entry.
updated: The Time the entry was updated.
published: The Time the entry was published.
title: The title of the entry.
summary: A short textual summary of the item.
authors: An array of Atom::Person objects that are authors of this entry.
contributors: An array of Atom::Person objects that are contributors to this entry.
rights: A string describing the rights associated with this entry.
links: An array of Atom:Link objects. (This is actually an Atom::Links array which is an Array with some sugar).
source: Metadata of a feed that was the source of this item, for feed aggregators, etc.
categories: Array of Atom::Categories.
content: The content of the entry. This will be one of Atom::Content::Text, Atom::Content:Html or Atom::Content::Xhtml.

References

See also www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php#element.entry for more detailed definitions of the attributes.

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes included from SimpleExtensions

#simple_extensions

Instance Method Summary collapse

#initialize(o = {}) {|_self| ... } ⇒ Entry constructor

Initialize an Entry.
#reload! ⇒ Object

Reload the Entry by fetching the self link.

Methods included from SimpleExtensions

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Constructor Details

#initialize(o = {}) {|_self| ... } ⇒ `Entry`

Initialize an Entry.

This will also yield itself, so an Entry can be constructed like this:

entry = Entry.new do |entry|
  entry.title = "My Cool entry"
end

o: An XML Reader or a Hash of attributes.

Yields:

(_self)

Yield Parameters:

_self (Atom::Entry) —

the object that the method was called on

# File 'lib/atom.rb', line 538

def initialize(o = {})
  @links = Links.new
  @authors = []
  @contributors = []
  @categories = []
  
  case o
  when XML::Reader
    if current_node_is?(o, 'entry', Atom::NAMESPACE) || next_node_is?(o, 'entry', Atom::NAMESPACE)
      o.read
      parse(o)
    else
      raise ArgumentError, "Entry created with node other than atom:entry: #{o.name}"
    end
  when Hash
    o.each do |k,v|
      send("#{k.to_s}=", v)
    end
  end

  yield(self) if block_given?
end

Instance Method Details

#reload! ⇒ `Object`

Reload the Entry by fetching the self link.

# File 'lib/atom.rb', line 562

def reload!
  if links.self
    Entry.load_entry(URI.parse(links.self.href))
  end
end