Module: Gattica::Convertible

Included in:
Account, Auth, DataPoint, DataSet, User
Defined in:
lib/gattica/convertible.rb

Overview

Common output methods that are sharable

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#to_h ⇒ Object

output as hash



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# File 'lib/gattica/convertible.rb', line 8

def to_h
  output = {}
  instance_variables.each do |var|
    output.merge!({ var[1..-1] => instance_variable_get(var) }) unless var == '@xml'    # exclude the whole XML dump
  end
  output
end

#to_query ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/gattica/convertible.rb', line 23

def to_query
  to_h.to_query
end

#to_s ⇒ Object Also known as: inspect

output nice inspect syntax



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# File 'lib/gattica/convertible.rb', line 17

def to_s
  to_h.inspect
end

#to_xml ⇒ Object

Return the raw XML (if the object has a @xml instance variable, otherwise convert the object itself to xml)



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# File 'lib/gattica/convertible.rb', line 28

def to_xml
  if @xml
    @xml
  else
    self.to_xml
  end
end