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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'

# Apricot eats Gorilla converts SOAP response messages to Ruby hashes.
# It's based on CobraVsMongoose but uses Hpricot instead of REXML and it
# also doesn't follow the BadgerFish convention.
class ApricotEatsGorilla

  # Converts a given SOAP response message into a Ruby Hash.
  def self.soap_response_to_hash(xml, root_node = nil)
    xml = prepare_xml(xml)
    root_node ||= "//return"
    doc = Hpricot.XML(xml)
    xml_node_to_hash doc.at(root_node)
  end

private

  # Converts XML nodes into a Ruby Hash. Recursively calls itself to grab
  # nested XML nodes and values.
  def self.xml_node_to_hash(node)
    this_node = {}

    node.each_child do |child|
      if child.children.nil?
        key, value = child.name, nil
      elsif child.children.size == 1 && child.children.first.text?
        key, value = child.name, string_to_bool?(child.children.first.raw_string)
      else
        key, value = child.name, xml_node_to_hash(child)
      end

      current = this_node[key]
      case current
        when Array:
          this_node[key] << value
        when nil
          this_node[key] = value
        else
          this_node[key] = [current.dup, value]
      end
    end

    this_node
  end

  # Helper to remove line breaks and whitespace between XML nodes.
  def self.prepare_xml(xml)
    xml = xml.gsub(/\n+/, "")
    xml = xml.gsub(/(>)\s*(<)/, '\1\2')
  end

  # Helper to convert "true" and "false" strings to boolean values.
  # Returns the original string in case it doesn't match "true" or "false".
  def self.string_to_bool?(string)
    return true if string == "true"
    return false if string == "false"
    string
  end

end

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
smacks-apricoteatsgorilla-0.1.2	lib/apricoteatsgorilla.rb