Class: Abebooks4r::Element

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/abebooks4r.rb

Overview

Internal wrapper class to provide convenient method to access Hpricot element value.

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(element) ⇒ Element

Pass Hpricot::Elements object



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 149

def initialize(element)
	@element = element
end

Class Method Details

.get(element, path = '') ⇒ Object

Similar to #get, except an element object must be passed-in.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 196

def self.get(element, path='')
	return unless element
	result = element.at(path)
	result = result.inner_html if result
	result
end

.get_array(element, path = '') ⇒ Object

Similar to #get_array, except an element object must be passed-in.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 210

def self.get_array(element, path='')
			return unless element
      
			result = element/path
			if (result.is_a? Hpricot::Elements) || (result.is_a? Array)
				parsed_result = []
				result.each {|item|
					parsed_result << Element.get(item)
				}
				parsed_result
			else
				[Element.get(result)]
			end
end

.get_hash(element, path = '') ⇒ Object

Similar to #get_hash, except an element object must be passed-in.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 226

def self.get_hash(element, path='')
	return unless element
    
	result = element.at(path)
	if result
		hash = {}
		result = result.children
		result.each do |item|
			hash[item.name.to_sym] = item.inner_html
		end 
		hash
	end
end

.get_unescaped(element, path = '') ⇒ Object

Similar to #get_unescaped, except an element object must be passed-in.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 204

def self.get_unescaped(element, path='')
	result = get(element, path)
	CGI::unescapeHTML(result) if result
end

Instance Method Details

#/(path) ⇒ Object

Find Hpricot::Elements matching the given path. Example: element/“author”.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 159

def /(path)
	elements = @element/path
	return nil if elements.size == 0
	elements
end

#elem ⇒ Object

Returns Hpricot::Elments object



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 154

def elem
	@element
end

#get(path = '') ⇒ Object

Get the text value of the given path, leave empty to retrieve current element value.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 176

def get(path='')
	Element.get(@element, path)
end

#get_array(path = '') ⇒ Object

Get the array values of the given path.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 186

def get_array(path='')
	Element.get_array(@element, path)
end

#get_hash(path = '') ⇒ Object

Get the children element text values in hash format with the element names as the hash keys.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 191

def get_hash(path='')
	Element.get_hash(@element, path)
end

#get_unescaped(path = '') ⇒ Object

Get the unescaped HTML text of the given path.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 181

def get_unescaped(path='')
	Element.get_unescaped(@element, path)
end

#search_and_convert(path) ⇒ Object

Find Hpricot::Elements matching the given path, and convert to Abebooks4r::Element. Returns an array Abebooks4r::Elements if more than Hpricot::Elements size is greater than 1.



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 167

def search_and_convert(path)
	elements = self./(path)
	return unless elements
	elements = elements.map{|element| Element.new(element)}
	return elements.first if elements.size == 1
	elements
end

#to_s ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/abebooks4r.rb', line 240

def to_s
	elem.to_s if elem
end