Class: Serel::Answer

Inherits:
Base
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/serel/answer.rb

Overview

The Answer class represents a Stack Exchange answer object.

Finding answers

There are a few different ways of retrieving answers: all, get & find, as well as the scopes on other classes.

all

Serel::Answer.all

This should probably never be used. all loads every answer on the site, which, for many sites, involves retrieving lots of pages. However, it’s there. Feel free to use it.

find

Serel::Answer.find(id)

Find an answer by its ID.

get

Serel::Answer.get

Retrieves answers, applying (any) scope that has been set. In reality this won’t be called as given above, rather it will called at the end of a chain of scoping functions, e.g:

Serel::Answer.pagesize(100).sort(:votes).get

which would return the top 100 answers on the site.

Question#answers

Serel::Question.find(id).answers.get

Retrieves the answers on a particular question. The call to answers returns a Relation object, which accepts all the usual relation scopes. This is true for all of the methods listed below.

User#answers

Serel::User.find(id).answers.get

Retrieves answers by a given user

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Base

#[], #[]=, #all, associations, attribute, config, #find, finder_methods, #get, #initialize, #inspect, #meth, method_missing, #network, network_wide, new_relation, request, respond_to?, #type, with_ids

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Serel::Base

Instance Method Details

#comments ⇒ Serel::Relation

Get the comments on an answer.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/serel/answer.rb', line 64

def comments
  type(:comment).url("answers/#{id}/comments")
end

#question ⇒ Serel::Question

Get the question this answer answers.

Note that this method returns a question not wrapped in the Response wrapper.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/serel/answer.rb', line 73

def question
  type(:question, :singular).url("questions/#{question_id}").get
end

#revisions ⇒ Serel::Relation

Get the revisions on an answer.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/serel/answer.rb', line 79

def revisions
  type(:revision).url("posts/#{id}/revisions")
end

#suggested_edits ⇒ Serel::Relation

Get the suggested edits on an answer

Returns:



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# File 'lib/serel/answer.rb', line 85

def suggested_edits
  type(:suggested_edit).url("posts/#{id}/suggested-edits")
end