Module: Freebase::Types

Defined in:
lib/freebase.rb

Overview

This module is a namespace scope for the Freebase domains

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.new_freebase_type(name) ⇒ Object

Automagically creates modules for domains and classes for types for matching namespaces to Freebase’s domain/type naming structure. Shouldn’t need to be called manually because this is called by the module whenever the constant is missing.



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# File 'lib/freebase.rb', line 20

def new_freebase_type(name)
  Freebase::Api::Logger.trace {"new freebase module = #{name}"}
  self.const_set(name, Module.new do
    def new_freebase_type(name)
      Freebase::Api::Logger.trace {"new freebase class = #{name}"}
      klass = self.const_set(name, Class.new(Freebase::Base))
      klass.class_eval do
        cattr_accessor :properties, :schema_loaded
      end
      returning(klass) do |tc|
        tc.load_schema! unless tc.schema_loaded?
        Freebase::Api::Logger.trace { "Attempting Mixin include: #{tc.name.sub(/Types/,"Mixins")}" }
        begin
          tc.send(:include, tc.name.sub(/Types/,"Mixins").constantize)
        rescue NameError => e
          Freebase::Api::Logger.trace "failed: #{e}"
        end
      end
    end

    module_function :new_freebase_type
  end)
end