Module: Wrest::Components::Container

Defined in:
lib/wrest/components/container.rb,
lib/wrest/components/container.rb,
lib/wrest/components/container/typecaster.rb,
lib/wrest/components/container/alias_accessors.rb

Overview

Adds behaviour allowing a class to contain attributes and providing support for dynamic getters, setters and query methods. These methods are added at runtime, on the first invocation and on a per instance basis. respond_to? however will respond as though they are all already present. This means that two different instances of the same Container could well have different attribute getters/setters/query methods.

Note that the first call to a particular getter/setter/query method will be slower because the method is defined at that point; subsequent calls will be much faster.

Also keep in mind that attribute getter/setter/query methods will not override any existing methods on the class.

In situations where this is a problem, such as a client consuming Rails REST services where id is a common attribute and clashes with Object#id, it is recommended to create getter/setter/query methods on the class (which affects all instances) using the always_has macro.

If you’re implementing your own initialize method remember to delegate to the default initialize of Container by invoking super(attributes)

Example:

class ShenCoin
  include Wrest::Components::Container
  include Wrest::Components::Container::Typecaster

  always_has   :id
  typecast         :id   =>  as_integer
end
coin = ShenCoin.new(:id => '5', :chi_count => 500, :owner => 'Kai Wren')
coin.id    # => 5
coin.owner # => 'Kai Wren'

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: AliasAccessors, ClassMethods, InstanceMethods, Typecaster

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.build_attribute_getter(attribute_name) ⇒ Object

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# File 'lib/wrest/components/container.rb', line 72

def self.build_attribute_getter(attribute_name) # :nodoc:
  "def #{attribute_name};@attributes[:#{attribute_name}];end;"
end

.build_attribute_queryer(attribute_name) ⇒ Object

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# File 'lib/wrest/components/container.rb', line 80

def self.build_attribute_queryer(attribute_name) # :nodoc:
  "def #{attribute_name}?;not @attributes[:#{attribute_name}].nil?;end;"
end

.build_attribute_setter(attribute_name) ⇒ Object

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# File 'lib/wrest/components/container.rb', line 76

def self.build_attribute_setter(attribute_name) # :nodoc:
  "def #{attribute_name}=(value);@attributes[:#{attribute_name}] = value;end;"
end

.included(klass) ⇒ Object

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# File 'lib/wrest/components/container.rb', line 63

def self.included(klass) # :nodoc:
  klass.extend Container::ClassMethods
  klass.extend Container::Typecaster::Helpers
  klass.class_eval do
    include Container::InstanceMethods
    include Container::AliasAccessors
  end
end