Class: YahooCountriesAndProvinces::YahooCountryList

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/yahoo_countries_and_provinces/yahoo_country_list.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ YahooCountryList

Returns a new instance of YahooCountryList.



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# File 'lib/yahoo_countries_and_provinces/yahoo_country_list.rb', line 6

def initialize()
  @country_array = []
end

Instance Method Details

#countries(language = "en") ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/yahoo_countries_and_provinces/yahoo_country_list.rb', line 10

def countries(language = "en")
  set_url(language)

  @country_array.clear if @country_array.any?
  begin
    resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(@url))
    data = resp.body
    result = JSON.parse(data)["query"]["results"]["place"]
  rescue
    raise "Could not get the data from yahoo's servers"
  end

  result.each { |country|
    @country_array << country['name']
  }

  @country_array
end