Class: GovKit::VoteSmart::Bio

Inherits:
GovKit::VoteSmartResource show all
Defined in:
lib/gov_kit/vote_smart.rb

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from Resource

#attributes, #raw_response

Class Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Resource

#initialize, instantiate, instantiate_collection, parse, #to_md5, #unload

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from GovKit::Resource

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method in the class GovKit::Resource

Class Method Details

.find(candidate_id, include_office = false) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/gov_kit/vote_smart.rb', line 90

def self.find(candidate_id, include_office = false)
  response = get("/CandidateBio.getBio", :query => {"candidateId" => candidate_id})

  return false if response.blank? || response['error']
  
  # Previous versions ommitted "office" data from response.
  # include_office is optional so to not break backwards compatibility.
  if include_office
    parse(response['bio'])
  else
    parse(response['bio']['candidate'])          
  end
end