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module Smoke
  # The "Data" source allows you to query
  # datasources that are "complete" urls
  # and rely on the automagic object parsing 
  # that smoke provides.
  #
  # For example, you may use this source
  # to query a complete restful api call
  # unpackage the xml response and get a 
  # clean ruby object.
  #
  # Data can take as many urls as you'd like
  # to throw at it.
  #
  # Usage:
  #   Smoke.data(:ruby) do
  #     url "http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?user_id=36821533%40N00&tags=benschwarz-site&nojsoncallback=1&method=flickr.photos.search&format=json&api_key=your_api_key_here
  #     path :photos, :photo
  #   end
  class Data < Origin
    attr_reader :request
    
    # The URL that you'd like smoke to source its data from
    # You can also set the type for silly servers that don't set a correct content-type (Flickr!)
    # Example:
    #   url "http://site.com/resource.json", :type => :json
    def url(source_url, options = {})
      @url, @options = source_url, options
    end
    
    protected
    def dispatch          
      @request = Smoke::Request.new(@url, @options)
      self.items = @request.body
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
smoke-0.5.20	lib/smoke/source/data.rb
smoke-0.5.19	lib/smoke/source/data.rb
smoke-0.5.17	lib/smoke/source/data.rb