Class: HTTParty::Parser

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/ap/parser.rb

Overview

This is a monkey-patch to HTTParty because the AP API doesn't return the HTML in the tag in CDATA tags, so we need to gsub the response to add them before being parsed

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#ap_xml ⇒ Object

Fixes and parses the XML returned by the AP Why is it broken? The HTML content doesn't include CDATA tags



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# File 'lib/ap/parser.rb', line 13

def ap_xml
  # other gsub could be negaitve /<content?([A-Za-z "=]+)>(?!<\!\[CDATA\[)/
  # but CS theory says that isn't a good idea, and so does running time tests
  Crack::XML.parse(body.gsub(/<content?([A-Za-z "=]+)><\!\[CDATA\[/, '<content>').gsub(/\]\]><\/content>/, "</content>").gsub(/<content?([A-Za-z "=]+)>/, "<content><![CDATA[").gsub(/<\/content>/, "]]></content>"))
  # Crack::XML.parse(body.gsub(/<content?([A-Za-z "=]+)>(?!<\!\[CDATA\[)/, "<content><![CDATA[").gsub(/<\/content>/, "]]></content>"))
end