Class: ArrayModel

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
lib/array_model.rb,
lib/array_model/version.rb

Overview

ArrayModel

This is used as a base class to create ActiveRecord / Sequel style models from simple arrays and hashes. This is useful for integrating simple reference data into an ActiveRecord model without having to create many small tables that will never change.

This data should be never change while the application is running, so the model objects that are created are read only. The data can come either from a constant in the ruby script itself, or from the filesystem as a YAML or JSON file.

Example:

USERS = [ { name: ‘Nathan’, year: 1984 }, { name: ‘Dave’, year: 1987 } ]

class User < ArrayModel model_data USERS attr_model_reader :name attr_model_reader :year

def age Time.now.year - year end end

User.age # => 32 User.name # => “Dave”

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"1.0.1"

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(item_data) ⇒ ArrayModel

create a new model object from a given hash. This should never need to be called directly - the class methods should be used to get model objects from the dataset



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 94

def initialize(item_data)
	item_data.is_a! Hash, 'item_data'
	@item_data = item_data
end

Class Method Details

.[](k) ⇒ Object

get the object with the key :k:

By default :k: will be a simple array index, but it can be changed to any field by using the :primary_key option when calling :model_data: when the class is defined

Users # => #<Users:0x007fe693866808>



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 44

def self.[](k)
	if @data_key.nil?
		item_data = @data[k.to_i]
	else
		# if a key has been specified, then find the first matching
		# record. It would be faster to convert it to a hash, but since the
		# number of records should be small, this should do for now
		item_data = @data.select{|a| a[@data_key] == k }.first
	end

	return nil if item_data.nil?
	return self.new(item_data)
end

.all ⇒ Object

returns an array of all the data in the model. The array will contain objects of the appropriate type (not raw hashes)



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 60

def self.all
	if @data.is_a? Array
		@all_records ||= @data.map { |v| self.new(v) }
	else
		raise "ArrayModel does not support #{@data.class} as data source"
	end		
end

.attr_model_reader(name, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Adds attr_reader methods to the class for a given field in the data hash. The :key: option can be used to set the name of the key in the hash, if it doesn’t have the same name as the method

class Users < ArrayModel … attr_model_reader :username attr_model_reader :user_id, :key => :userId … end



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 111

def self.attr_model_reader(name, options = {})
	define_method name.to_sym do
		values[(options[:key] || name).to_sym]
	end
end

.attr_model_readers(keys) ⇒ Object

like :attr_model_reader:, but mulitple readers can be added at once. No options can be passed when using this method to add the readers

class Users < ArrayModel … attr_model_readers [:username, :user_id] … end



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 127

def self.attr_model_readers(keys)
	keys.each {|k| attr_model_reader k }
end

.model_data(data, options = nil) ⇒ Object

add the model data to the model class. This data should be in the from of an array of hashes.

The array model is designed to handle static reference data, so the data should not change while the application is running. It can come either from a constant hard coded into the ruby file, or from a json or yaml file on the filesystem.

The :primary_key option can be used to index the data by a particular field in the hash when it is accessed later via the subscript operator. If this option is ommited then the data will be accessable simply by the array index

class Users < ArrayModel # USER_LIST is a const containing an array of hashes model_data USER_LIST, :primary_key => :username … end



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 149

def self.model_data(data, options = nil)
	options ||= {}
	data.is_a! Array, 'data'

	@data_key = options[:primary_key]
	@data = data	
end

Instance Method Details

#[](k) ⇒ Object

an alias for the values method to return a raw value from the data hash for a given model object. The attr_reader methods should be prefered to accessing the hash directly, but this can be useful in certain cases

u = Users u.username # => ‘reednj’ u.values(:username) # => ‘reednj’ u # => ‘reednj’



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 78

def [](k)
	values[k]
end

#values ⇒ Object

returns the raw Hash that provides the data for the model object

Users.values # => => ‘reednj’, …



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# File 'lib/array_model.rb', line 87

def values
	@item_data
end