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require "representable/hash"
require "representable/json/collection"

begin
  require "multi_json"
rescue LoadError => _
  abort "Missing dependency 'multi_json' for Representable::JSON. See dependencies section in README.md for details."
end

module Representable
  # Brings #to_json and #from_json to your object.
  module JSON
    extend Hash::ClassMethods
    include Hash

    def self.included(base)
      base.class_eval do
        include Representable # either in Hero or HeroRepresentation.
        extend ClassMethods # DISCUSS: do that only for classes?
        register_feature Representable::JSON
      end
    end


    module ClassMethods
      def format_engine
        Representable::Hash
      end

      def collection_representer_class
        JSON::Collection
      end
    end


    # Parses the body as JSON and delegates to #from_hash.
    def from_json(data, *args)
      data = MultiJson.load(data)
      from_hash(data, *args)
    end

    # Returns a JSON string representing this object.
    def to_json(*args)
      MultiJson.dump to_hash(*args)
    end

    alias_method :render, :to_json
    alias_method :parse, :from_json
  end
end

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
representable-3.0.4	lib/representable/json.rb
representable-3.0.3	lib/representable/json.rb
representable-3.0.2	lib/representable/json.rb