Class: CatAPI::Client

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/cat_api/client.rb

Constant Summary collapse

BASE_URL = 
'http://thecatapi.com/api/'

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(defaults = {}) ⇒ Client

Returns a new instance of Client.



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# File 'lib/cat_api/client.rb', line 11

def initialize(defaults={})
  @defaults = defaults
  response = get "#{ BASE_URL }categories/list"
  @categories = CatAPI::Categories.new( Nokogiri::XML(response) ).results
end

Instance Attribute Details

#categories ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute categories.



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# File 'lib/cat_api/client.rb', line 7

def categories
  @categories
end

Instance Method Details

#get_images(options = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/cat_api/client.rb', line 17

def get_images(options={})
  options = @defaults.merge(options)
  options.delete_if {|k,v| v.nil? || ( v.kind_of?(Array) && v.empty? ) }
  response = get "#{ BASE_URL }images/get?format=xml&#{ URI.encode_www_form options }"
  CatAPI::ImageSearch.new( Nokogiri::XML(response) ).results
end