Module: Facebooker::Model

Included in:
Affiliation, Album, ApplicationProperties, Cookie, EducationInfo, EducationInfo::HighschoolInfo, Event, Event::Attendance, FriendList, Group, Group::Membership, InfoItem, InfoSection, Location, Notifications, Page, Page::Genre, Photo, Tag, User, User::Status, WorkInfo
Defined in:
lib/facebooker/model.rb

Overview

helper methods primarily supporting the management of Ruby objects which are populatable via Hashes.

Since most Facebook API calls accept and return hashes of data (as XML), the Model module allows us to directly populate a model’s attributes given a Hash with matching key names.

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: ClassMethods Classes: UnboundSessionException

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(includer) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 8

def self.included(includer)
  includer.extend ClassMethods
  includer.__send__(:attr_writer, :session)
  includer.__send__(:attr_reader, :anonymous_fields)
end

Instance Method Details

#anon=(value) ⇒ Object

This gets populated from FQL queries.



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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 103

def anon=(value)
  @anonymous_fields = value
end

#initialize(hash = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 107

def initialize(hash = {})
  populate_from_hash!(hash)
end

#populate ⇒ Object

Raises:

  • (NotImplementedError) 


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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 111

def populate
  raise NotImplementedError, "#{self.class} included me and should have overriden me"
end

#populate_from_hash!(hash) ⇒ Object

Set model’s attributes via Hash. Keys should map directly to the model’s attribute names.



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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 121

def populate_from_hash!(hash)
  unless hash.empty?
    hash.each do |key, value|
      set_attr_method = "#{key}="
      if respond_to?(set_attr_method)
        self.__send__(set_attr_method, value) 
      else
        Facebooker::Logging.log_info("**Warning**, Attempt to set non-attribute: #{key}",hash)
      end
    end
    @populated = true
  end      
end

#populated? ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 115

def populated?
  !@populated.nil?
end

#session ⇒ Object

Centralized, error-checked place for a model to get the session to which it is bound. Any Facebook API queries require a Session instance.



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# File 'lib/facebooker/model.rb', line 97

def session
  @session || (raise UnboundSessionException, "Must bind this object to a Facebook session before querying")
end