Module: Flounder::Helpers::Entity

Included in:
Query::Base, Relation
Defined in:
lib/flounder/helpers/entity.rb

Overview

Helper module that helps with entity resolution. To include this module in a class, you need to provide the following two methods:

* has_entity?(sym) -> Boolean
  Decides if a given symbol can be converted into an entity
* resolve_entity(sym) -> Entity
  Resolves an entity from a symbol name.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#convert_to_entity(something) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/flounder/helpers/entity.rb', line 17

def convert_to_entity something
  case something
    when Flounder::Entity, Flounder::EntityAlias
      return something
    when Symbol
      return resolve_entity(something)
  else
    fail "Not entity-like - yet! (#{something.inspect})"
  end
end

#entity_like?(something) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/flounder/helpers/entity.rb', line 12

def entity_like? something
  something.kind_of?(Flounder::Entity) ||
    something.kind_of?(Flounder::EntityAlias) ||
    something.kind_of?(Symbol) && has_entity?(something)
end