Module: Webgen::Output

Defined in:
lib/webgen/output.rb,
lib/webgen/output/filesystem.rb

Overview

Namespace for all classes that know how to write out node content.

Implementing an output class

Output classes know how to write rendered node data to an output location.

An output class must respond to three methods

exists?(path)

Return true if the output path exists.

delete(path)

Delete the given output path.

write(path, data, type)

Write the data to the given output path. The parameter data is either a String with the content or a Webgen::Path::SourceIO object. The parameter type specifies the type of the to be written path: :file or :directory.

read(path)

Return the content of the given path if it exists or raise an error otherwise.

It seems a bit odd that an output instance has to implement reading functionality. However, consider the case where you want webgen to render a website programmatically and use the output. In this case you need a way to get to content of the written files! This functionality is used, for example, in the webgui.

Sample Output Class

Following is a simple but actually used (by the webgui) output class which stores the written nodes in a hash in memory:

class MemoryOutput
  include Webgen::WebsiteAccess

  attr_reader :data

  def initialize
    @data = {}
  end

  def exists?(path)
    @data.has_key?(path)
  end

  def delete(path)
    @data.delete(path)
  end

  def write(path, io, type = :file)
    @data[path] = [(io.kind_of?(String) ? io : io.data), type]
  end

  def read(path)
    path = File.join('/', path)
    raise "No such file #{path}" unless @data[path] && @data[path].last == :file
    @data[path].first
  end
end

WebsiteAccess.website.config.output(['MemoryOutput'])

The last line is used to tell webgen to use this new output class instead of the default one.

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: FileSystem

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.instance ⇒ Object

Returns an instance of the configured output class.



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# File 'lib/webgen/output.rb', line 71

def self.instance
  classes = (WebsiteAccess.website.cache.volatile[:classes] ||= {})
  unless classes.has_key?(:output_instance)
    klass, *args = WebsiteAccess.website.config['output']
    classes[:output_instance] = Object.constant(klass).new(*args)
  end
  classes[:output_instance]
end