require 'i18n' require 'parliament/utils/helpers/translation_helper' unless defined?(::Rails) # attr [String] previous_path the path to redirect back to in the case of an error. module Parliament module Utils module Helpers module PostcodeHelper include Parliament::Utils::Helpers::TranslationHelper unless defined?(::Rails) attr_accessor :previous_path # Makes requests to the postcode_lookup endpoint. # @param [String] raw_input the data inputted by the user. # @return [Parliament::Response::NTripleResponse, Parliament::ClientError, Parliament::ServerError] if successful, a response is returned, otherwise an error is returned. def self.lookup(raw_input) postcode = clean_input(raw_input) begin Parliament::Utils::Helpers::ParliamentHelper.parliament_request.constituencies.postcode_lookup(postcode).get rescue Parliament::ClientError raise(PostcodeError, I18n.t('error.no_constituency').capitalize) rescue Parliament::ServerError raise(PostcodeError, I18n.t('error.lookup_unavailable').capitalize) end end # Replaces whitespace with a hyphen. # @param [String] postcode the string to be hyphenated. # @return [String] a hyphenated string. def self.hyphenate(postcode) postcode.strip.gsub(/\s+/, '-') end # Replaces a hyphen with whitespace, restoring a postcode to its usual format. # @param [String] postcode the string to be processed. # @return [String] the restored postcode with hyphen replaced by whitespace. def self.unhyphenate(postcode) postcode.tr('-', ' ') end # Returns the previous path variable. # @return [String] previous_path the path to redirect back to in the case of an error. def self.previous_path @previous_path end # Sets the previous path variable. # @return [String] previous_path the path to redirect back to in the case of an error. def self.previous_path=(path) @previous_path = path end private_class_method # We decided to use a loose regex - this matches the different postcode formats, but doesn't validate against invalid letters and numbers, only their positions. def self.clean_input(raw_input) postcode = raw_input.gsub(/\s+/, '').upcase postcode.match(/[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][0-9A-Z]?\s?[0-9][A-Z]{2}/).nil? ? raise(PostcodeError, I18n.t('error.postcode_invalid').capitalize) : postcode end class PostcodeError < StandardError def initialize(message) super(message) end end end end end end