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module FlexmlsApi
  module Models
    # =API Model Base class
    # Intended to be a lot like working with ActiveResource, this class adds most of the basic 
    # active model type niceties.
    class Base
      extend Paginate

      attr_accessor :attributes
      
      # Name of the resource as related to the path name
      def self.element_name
        # TODO I'd love to pull in active model at this point to provide default naming
        @element_name ||= "resource"
      end

      def self.element_name=(name)
        @element_name = name
      end
      
      # Resource path prefix, prepended to the url
      def self.prefix
        @prefix ||= "/"
      end
      def self.prefix=(prefix)
        @prefix = prefix
      end
      def self.path
        "#{prefix}#{element_name}"
      end
      
      def self.connection
        FlexmlsApi.client
      end
      def connection
        self.class.connection
      end

      def initialize(attributes={})
        @attributes = {}
        load(attributes)
      end

      def load(attributes)
        attributes.each do |key,val|
          @attributes[key.to_s] = val
        end
      end
      
      def self.get(options={})
        collect(connection.get(path, options))
      end

      def self.first(options={})
        get(options)[0]
      end

      def method_missing(method_symbol, *arguments)
        method_name = method_symbol.to_s

        if method_name =~ /(=|\?)$/
          case $1
          when "=" 
            attributes[$`] = arguments.first
            # TODO figure out a nice way to present setters for the standard fields
          when "?" 
            attributes[$`]
          end 
        else
          return attributes[method_name] if attributes.include?(method_name)
          super # GTFO
        end 
      end
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
flexmls_api-0.3.3	lib/flexmls_api/models/base.rb
flexmls_api-0.3.2	lib/flexmls_api/models/base.rb