Class: CFF::Entity

Inherits:
ModelPart show all
Defined in:
lib/cff/entity.rb

Overview

An Entity can represent different types of entities, e.g., a publishing company, or conference. Like a Person, an Entity might have a number of roles, such as author, contact, editor, etc.

Constant Summary collapse

ALLOWED_FIELDS = 
[
  'address', 'city', 'country', 'email', 'date-end', 'date-start', 'fax',
  'location', 'name', 'orcid', 'post-code', 'region', 'tel', 'website'
].freeze

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from ModelPart

#fields

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from ModelPart

#method_missing, #respond_to_missing?

Methods included from Util

#build_actor_collection!, #fields_to_hash, #method_to_field, #normalize_modelpart_array!

Constructor Details

#initialize(param) ⇒ Entity

:call-seq:

new(name) -> Entity

Create a new Entity with the supplied name.



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# File 'lib/cff/entity.rb', line 32

def initialize(param)
  if param.is_a?(Hash)
    @fields = param
  else
    @fields = Hash.new('')
    @fields['name'] = param
  end
end

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method in the class CFF::ModelPart

Instance Method Details

#date_end=(date) ⇒ Object

:call-seq:

date_end = date

Set the ‘date-end` field. If a non-Date object is passed in it will be parsed into a Date.



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# File 'lib/cff/entity.rb', line 46

def date_end=(date)
  date = Date.parse(date) unless date.is_a?(Date)

  @fields['date-end'] = date
end

#date_start=(date) ⇒ Object

:call-seq:

date_start = date

Set the ‘date-start` field. If a non-Date object is passed in it will be parsed into a Date.



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# File 'lib/cff/entity.rb', line 57

def date_start=(date)
  date = Date.parse(date) unless date.is_a?(Date)

  @fields['date-start'] = date
end