Class: Preposterous::Base

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Extended by:
Forwardable
Defined in:
lib/preposterous/base.rb,
lib/preposterous/connection.rb

Direct Known Subclasses

Post

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: ClientTypeNotSpecified

Constant Summary collapse

@@client =

the following code is to allow for a active_record-y access to Posterous

nil

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(client) ⇒ Base

Returns a new instance of Base.



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 8

def initialize(client)
  @client = client
end

Instance Attribute Details

#client ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute client.



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 6

def client
  @client
end

Class Method Details

.client ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/connection.rb', line 9

def self.client
  @@client    
end

.establish_client(config = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/connection.rb', line 13

def self.establish_client(config={})
   unless config.key?(:client_type) then raise ClientTypeNotSpecified, "You must specify an adapter type" end
   client = config[:client_type].initialize_from_hash(config)
   @@client = new(client)   
end

Instance Method Details

#getsites ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 12

def getsites
  response = perform_get("/api/getsites")
  # parse out sites? not sure how I want the API to look
  # for this. I have a couple of competing ideas...
  response["site"] if not response.nil?
end

#gettags ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 49

def gettags
  response = perform_get("/api/gettags")
  response["tag"] if not response.nil?
end

#newcomment(fields = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 44

def newcomment(fields={})
  response = perform_post("/api/newcomment", :fields => fields)
  response["comment"] if not response.nil?
end

#newpost(fields = {}, *files) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 19

def newpost(fields={}, *files)
  # create options hash
  options = generate_post_options(fields, *files)
  puts options
  response = perform_post("/api/newpost", options)
  # return post attrs
  response["post"] if not response.nil?
end

#readposts(fields = {}) ⇒ Object

this is BROKEN for some reason the XML will not parse the CDATA fields are throwing off the parser(REXML)



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 39

def readposts(fields={})
  response = perform_get("/api/readposts", :fields => fields)
  response["post"] if not response.nil?
end

#updatepost(fields = {}, *files) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/preposterous/base.rb', line 28

def updatepost(fields={}, *files)
  # create options hash
  options = generate_post_options(fields, *files)
  response = perform_post("/api/updatepost", options)
  # return post attrs
  response["post"] if not response.nil?
end