ResourceStruct

This is a gem for working with JSON resources from a network source with indifferent and method based access.

Instead of overriding Hash implementation, this wraps a Hash with indifferent access (by symbol or string keys). This makes it fast at runtime, while still providing the necessary lookup method of choice.

There are two types ResouceStruct::StrictStruct and ResourceStruct::FlexStruct.

ResourceStruct::StrictStruct provides a way of wrapping a Hash such that accesses to invalid keys will raise an exception through the method lookup method; it also is immutable.

ResouceStruct::FlexStruct provides a way of wrapping a Hash such that it returns nil instead of raising an exception when the key is not present in the hash.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'resource-struct'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install resource-struct

Usage

StrictStruct

struct = ResourceStruct::StrictStruct.new({ "foo" => 1, "bar" => [{ "baz" => 2 }, 3] })
struct.foo? # => true
struct.brr? # => false
struct.foo # => 1
struct.bar # => [StrictStruct<{ "baz" => 2 }>, 3]
struct.brr # => NoMethodError
struct[:foo] # => 1
struct[:brr] # => nil
struct[:bar, 0, :baz] # => 2
struct[:bar, 0, :brr] # => nil

FlexStruct

struct = ResourceStruct::FlexStruct.new({ "foo" => 1, "bar" => [{ "baz" => 2 }, 3] })

struct.foo? # => true
struct.brr? # => false
struct.foo # => 1
struct.bar # => [FlexStruct<{ "baz" => 2 }>, 3]
struct.brr # => nil
struct[:foo] # => 1
struct[:brr] # => nil
struct[:bar, 0, :baz] # => 2
struct[:bar, 0, :brr] # => nil

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/resource-struct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.