Class: NYTimes::Congress::Legislator

Inherits:
Base
  • Object
show all
Includes:
AttributeTransformation
Defined in:
lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb

Constant Summary collapse

ATTRIBUTE_MAP = 
{ :date_for    =>  [:date_of_birth],
                        :roles_for   =>  [:roles],
                			  :integer_for =>  [:govtrack_id, :district],
                			  :string_for  =>  [:url, :state, :gender, :name, :party,
:missed_votes_pct, :votes_with_party_pct] }
ATTRIBUTES = 
ATTRIBUTE_MAP.values.flatten

Constants inherited from Base

Base::API_BASE, Base::API_NAME, Base::API_SERVER, Base::API_VERSION

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from AttributeTransformation

#date_for, #do_transformation, #empty?, #integer_for, #positions_for, #roles_for, #string_for, #symbol_for, #transform, #votes_for

Methods inherited from Base

api_key, api_key=, build_request_url, copyright, define_lazy_reader_for_attribute_named, invoke

Constructor Details

#initialize(args = {}) ⇒ Legislator

Returns a new instance of Legislator.



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# File 'lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb', line 25

def initialize(args={})
	  prepare_arguments(args)
	  @attributes = {}
	@transformed_arguments.each_pair do |name, value|
	  attributes[name.to_sym] = value
	end
	@fully_loaded = false
end

Instance Attribute Details

#attributes ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute attributes.



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# File 'lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb', line 18

def attributes
  @attributes
end

#id ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute id.



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# File 'lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb', line 18

def id
  @id
end

Class Method Details

.find(id) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb', line 14

def self.find(id)
  response = invoke("members/#{id}.json")
				new(response['results'].first)
end

Instance Method Details

#positions ⇒ Object Also known as: votes 



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# File 'lib/ny-times/congress/legislator.rb', line 20

def positions
  @positions ||= fetch_positions
end