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module Rapidshare

  # Contains utility methods which can be called both as class and instance methods
  #
  module Utils

    # From historical purposes GET and POST methods a distinguished.
    # They will be merged in a future release
    def post(url, params)
      params[:filecontent] = File.new(params[:filecontent])
      ::RestClient.post(url, params)
    end

    def get(url)
      ::RestClient.get(url)
    end

    # Convert file status code (returned by checkfiles method) to +:ok+ or +:error+ symbol.
    #
    def decode_file_status(status_code)
      # TODO in checkfiles, return both file_status as is and decoded file status
      # or just boolean value if file is OK and can be downloaded

      case status_code
        when 0 then :error # File not found
        when 1 then :ok # File OK
        when 3 then :error # Server down
        when 4 then :error # File marked as illegal
        else :error # unknown status, this shouldn't happen
      end
    end

    # Extracts file id and file name from Rapidshare url. Returns both in array.
    #
    # Example:
    #   https://rapidshare.com/files/829628035/HornyRhinos.jpg -> [ '829628035', 'HornyRhinos.jpg' ]
    #
    def fileid_and_filename(url)
      url.split('/').slice(-2,2) || ['', '']
    end

    # Converts rapidshare response (which is just a text in specific format) to hash.
    #
    # Example:
    #   "key1=value1\nkey1=value2" -> { :key1 => 'value1', :key2 => 'value2' }
    #
    def text_to_hash(response)
      Hash[ response.strip.split(/\s*\n\s*/).map { |param| param.split('=') } ].symbolize_keys
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
rapidshare-ext-0.1.0	lib/rapidshare-base/utils.rb