Module: Puppet::Util::PsychSupport

Included in:
Indirector::Request, Node, Node::Facts
Defined in:
lib/puppet/util/psych_support.rb

Overview

This module should be included when a class can be serialized to yaml and needs to handle the deserialization from Psych with more control. Psych normall pokes values directly into an instance using instance_variable_set which completely bypasses encapsulation.

The class that includes this module must implement an instance method initialize_from_hash that is given a hash with attribute to value mappings.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#encode_with(psych_encoder) ⇒ Object

This method is called from the Psych Yaml serializer The serializer will call this method to create a hash that will be serialized to YAML. Instead of using the object itself during the mapping process we use what is returned by calling to_data_hash on the object itself since some of the objects we manage have asymmetrical serialization and deserialization.



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# File 'lib/puppet/util/psych_support.rb', line 30

def encode_with(psych_encoder)
  tag = Psych.dump_tags[self.class]
  unless tag
    klass = self.class == Object ? nil : self.class.name
    tag   = ['!ruby/object', klass].compact.join(':')
  end
  psych_encoder.represent_map(tag, to_data_hash)
end

#init_with(psych_coder) ⇒ Object

This method is called from the Psych Yaml deserializer. The serializer calls this instead of doing the initialization itself using instance_variable_set. The Status class requires this because it serializes its TagSet as an Array in order to optimize the size of the serialized result. When this array is later deserialized it must be reincarnated as a TagSet. The standard Psych way of doing this via poking values into instance variables cannot do this.



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# File 'lib/puppet/util/psych_support.rb', line 17

def init_with(psych_coder)
  # The PsychCoder has a hashmap of instance variable name (sans the @ symbol) to values
  # to set, and can thus directly be fed to initialize_from_hash.
  #
  initialize_from_hash(psych_coder.map)
end