attribute-kit
Tools for attribute tracking like Hashes with dirty tracking and events, for building hybrid models and generally going beyond what's provided by your local ORM/DRM, while allowing you to expand what you can do with them, live without them, or roll your own
Rationale
ORM and DRM frameworks implement many of the same concepts that this kit makes available, but they don't generally expose them as smaller pieces of functionality that you can consume and mix in as you please. It is also difficult to get more ORMs to 'play nice' with columns that are really schemaless hashes, because they just aren't meant to handle such things. While DRMs are generally designed to work with schemaless data, there are times when you need to have both behaviors.
The idea behind building AttributeKit was to make these concepts available in an ad-hoc format, so that classes could either inherit or mix in the behaviors that they want and/or need, without the overhead of the pieces they don't want or need. This all stemmed from a side project that had a need for exactly that...ORM/DRM-like behavior, without the extra weight of actually using one of the ORMs or DRMs on the market and then extending them to handle both types of data, in two separate data stores.
Basic usage
attributes = AttributeKit::AttributeHash.new #=> {}
attributes.empty? #=> true
attributes.dirty? #=> false
attributes[:foo] = 'bar' #=> 'bar'
attributes.dirty? #=> true
attributes.dirty_keys #=> [:foo]
attributes #=> {:foo=>"bar"}
attributes[:bar] = 5 #=> 5
attributes #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
attributes.dirty_keys #=> [:foo, :bar]
attributes.deleted_keys #=> []
attributes.delete(:foo) #=> "bar"
attributes.dirty_keys #=> [:bar, :foo]
attributes.deleted_keys #=> [:foo]
attributes.clean_attributes { |dirty_attrs| # Deleted: foo Nil value: true
dirty_attrs.each_pair do |k,v| # Changed: bar New value: 5
case v[0]
when :changed #=> {:foo=>[:deleted, nil], :bar=>[:changed, 5]}
puts "Changed: #{k} New value: #{v[1]}"
when :deleted # NOTE: The lack of a return value in this block
puts "Deleted: #{k} Nil value: #{v[1].nil?}" # means that dirty_attrs was returned by both
end # the block and the method itself. You may
end # want to write a block to return true if it
} # succeeds, and the dirty_attrs hash if it
# fails, so you can pass the hash to a
# method that can retry later.
Serializing and deserializing a Hash with JSON
class JHash < Hash
include AttributeKit::JSONSerializableHash
end
attr_hash = JHash.new #=> {}
attr_hash[:foo] = 'bar' #=> 'bar'
attr_hash[:bar] = 5 #=> 5
attr_hash #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
j = attr_hash.to_json #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"bar\":5}"
new_hash = JHash.new #=> {}
new_hash.from_json(j) #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
new_hash #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
new_hash.clear #=> {}
f = attr_hash.get_json(:foo) #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"
new_hash[:bar] = 5 #=> 5
new_hash.store_json(f) #=> {:bar=>5, :foo=>"bar"}
new_hash #=> {:bar=>5, :foo=>"bar"}
Serializing and deserializing an AttributeHash with JSON
class MyHash < AttributeKit::AttributeHash
include AttributeKit::JSONSerializableHash
end
attr_hash = MyHash.new #=> {}
attr_hash.empty? #=> true
attr_hash.dirty? #=> false
attr_hash[:foo] = 'bar' #=> 'bar'
attr_hash.dirty? #=> true
attr_hash.dirty_keys #=> [:foo]
attr_hash[:bar] = 5 #=> 5
attr_hash #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
j = attr_hash.to_json #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"bar\":5}"
new_hash = MyHash.new #=> {}
new_hash.from_json(j) #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
new_hash #=> {:foo=>"bar", :bar=>5}
new_hash.clear #=> {}
f = attr_hash.get_json(:foo) #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"
new_hash[:bar] = 5 #=> 5
new_hash.store_json(f) #=> {:bar=>5, :foo=>"bar"}
new_hash #=> {:bar=>5, :foo=>"bar"}
Contributing to attribute-kit
- Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
- Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
- Fork the project
- Start a feature/bugfix branch
- Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
- Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.
Copyright and License
Copyright (c) 2011 Jonathan Mischo
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.