Class: Jsoning::Mapper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb

Overview

takes care of translating/fetching values from the object

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ Mapper

Returns a new instance of Mapper.



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 12

def initialize
  self.parallel_variable = nil
  self.default_value = nil
  self.nullable = true
end

Instance Attribute Details

#custom_block ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute custom_block.



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 10

def custom_block
  @custom_block
end

#default_value ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute default_value.



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 6

def default_value
  @default_value
end

#name ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 27

def name
  @name_as_string = @name.to_s if @name_as_string.nil?
  @name_as_string
end

#nullable ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 18

def nullable
  if @nullable.is_a?(TrueClass) || @nullable.is_a?(FalseClass)
    return @nullable
  else
    # by default, allow every mapped things to be nil
    true
  end
end

#parallel_variable ⇒ Object

what variable in the object will be used to obtain the value



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 9

def parallel_variable
  @parallel_variable
end

Instance Method Details

#extract(object, target_hash) ⇒ Object

map this very specific object’s field to target_hash



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# File 'lib/jsoning/foundations/mapper.rb', line 33

def extract(object, target_hash)
  if object.respond_to?(parallel_variable)
    parallel_val = object.send(parallel_variable)
    parallel_val = default_value if parallel_val.nil?
    target_hash[name] = deep_parse(parallel_val)
  else
    if default_value
      target_hash[name] = deep_parse(default_value)
    else
      unless nullable
        raise Jsoning::Error, "Null value given for '#{name}' when serializing #{object}"
      end
    end
  end
end