yob-roxml 3.1.6

Sign up to get free protection for your applications and to get access to all the features.
Files changed (102) hide show
  1. data/.gitignore +7 -0
  2. data/.gitmodules +3 -0
  3. data/History.txt +354 -0
  4. data/LICENSE +20 -0
  5. data/README.rdoc +195 -0
  6. data/Rakefile +117 -0
  7. data/TODO +37 -0
  8. data/VERSION +1 -0
  9. data/examples/amazon.rb +35 -0
  10. data/examples/current_weather.rb +27 -0
  11. data/examples/dashed_elements.rb +20 -0
  12. data/examples/library.rb +40 -0
  13. data/examples/posts.rb +27 -0
  14. data/examples/rails.rb +70 -0
  15. data/examples/twitter.rb +37 -0
  16. data/examples/xml/active_record.xml +70 -0
  17. data/examples/xml/amazon.xml +133 -0
  18. data/examples/xml/current_weather.xml +89 -0
  19. data/examples/xml/dashed_elements.xml +52 -0
  20. data/examples/xml/posts.xml +23 -0
  21. data/examples/xml/twitter.xml +422 -0
  22. data/lib/roxml.rb +556 -0
  23. data/lib/roxml/definition.rb +238 -0
  24. data/lib/roxml/hash_definition.rb +25 -0
  25. data/lib/roxml/xml.rb +40 -0
  26. data/lib/roxml/xml/parsers/libxml.rb +85 -0
  27. data/lib/roxml/xml/parsers/nokogiri.rb +82 -0
  28. data/lib/roxml/xml/references.rb +322 -0
  29. data/roxml.gemspec +206 -0
  30. data/spec/definition_spec.rb +494 -0
  31. data/spec/examples/active_record_spec.rb +40 -0
  32. data/spec/examples/amazon_spec.rb +54 -0
  33. data/spec/examples/current_weather_spec.rb +37 -0
  34. data/spec/examples/dashed_elements_spec.rb +20 -0
  35. data/spec/examples/library_spec.rb +46 -0
  36. data/spec/examples/post_spec.rb +24 -0
  37. data/spec/examples/twitter_spec.rb +32 -0
  38. data/spec/roxml_spec.rb +372 -0
  39. data/spec/shared_specs.rb +15 -0
  40. data/spec/spec.opts +1 -0
  41. data/spec/spec_helper.rb +14 -0
  42. data/spec/support/libxml.rb +3 -0
  43. data/spec/support/nokogiri.rb +3 -0
  44. data/spec/xml/array_spec.rb +36 -0
  45. data/spec/xml/attributes_spec.rb +71 -0
  46. data/spec/xml/encoding_spec.rb +52 -0
  47. data/spec/xml/namespace_spec.rb +270 -0
  48. data/spec/xml/namespaces_spec.rb +67 -0
  49. data/spec/xml/object_spec.rb +82 -0
  50. data/spec/xml/parser_spec.rb +21 -0
  51. data/spec/xml/text_spec.rb +71 -0
  52. data/test/fixtures/book_malformed.xml +5 -0
  53. data/test/fixtures/book_pair.xml +8 -0
  54. data/test/fixtures/book_text_with_attribute.xml +5 -0
  55. data/test/fixtures/book_valid.xml +5 -0
  56. data/test/fixtures/book_with_authors.xml +7 -0
  57. data/test/fixtures/book_with_contributions.xml +9 -0
  58. data/test/fixtures/book_with_contributors.xml +7 -0
  59. data/test/fixtures/book_with_contributors_attrs.xml +7 -0
  60. data/test/fixtures/book_with_default_namespace.xml +9 -0
  61. data/test/fixtures/book_with_depth.xml +6 -0
  62. data/test/fixtures/book_with_octal_pages.xml +4 -0
  63. data/test/fixtures/book_with_publisher.xml +7 -0
  64. data/test/fixtures/book_with_wrapped_attr.xml +3 -0
  65. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_attr_name_clashes.xml +8 -0
  66. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_attrs.xml +6 -0
  67. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_guarded_names.xml +6 -0
  68. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_mixeds.xml +4 -0
  69. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_name_clashes.xml +10 -0
  70. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_names.xml +4 -0
  71. data/test/fixtures/dictionary_of_texts.xml +10 -0
  72. data/test/fixtures/library.xml +30 -0
  73. data/test/fixtures/library_uppercase.xml +30 -0
  74. data/test/fixtures/muffins.xml +3 -0
  75. data/test/fixtures/nameless_ageless_youth.xml +2 -0
  76. data/test/fixtures/node_with_attr_name_conflicts.xml +1 -0
  77. data/test/fixtures/node_with_name_conflicts.xml +4 -0
  78. data/test/fixtures/numerology.xml +4 -0
  79. data/test/fixtures/person.xml +1 -0
  80. data/test/fixtures/person_with_guarded_mothers.xml +13 -0
  81. data/test/fixtures/person_with_mothers.xml +10 -0
  82. data/test/load_test.rb +6 -0
  83. data/test/mocks/dictionaries.rb +57 -0
  84. data/test/mocks/mocks.rb +279 -0
  85. data/test/support/fixtures.rb +11 -0
  86. data/test/test_helper.rb +34 -0
  87. data/test/unit/definition_test.rb +235 -0
  88. data/test/unit/deprecations_test.rb +24 -0
  89. data/test/unit/to_xml_test.rb +81 -0
  90. data/test/unit/xml_attribute_test.rb +39 -0
  91. data/test/unit/xml_block_test.rb +81 -0
  92. data/test/unit/xml_bool_test.rb +122 -0
  93. data/test/unit/xml_convention_test.rb +150 -0
  94. data/test/unit/xml_hash_test.rb +115 -0
  95. data/test/unit/xml_initialize_test.rb +49 -0
  96. data/test/unit/xml_name_test.rb +141 -0
  97. data/test/unit/xml_namespace_test.rb +31 -0
  98. data/test/unit/xml_object_test.rb +205 -0
  99. data/test/unit/xml_required_test.rb +94 -0
  100. data/test/unit/xml_text_test.rb +71 -0
  101. data/website/index.html +98 -0
  102. metadata +300 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
1
+ spec/**/*.xml
2
+ rdoc
3
+ build
4
+ doc
5
+ Rake.config
6
+ pkg
7
+ .project
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
1
+ [submodule "vendor/override_rake_task"]
2
+ path = vendor/override_rake_task
3
+ url = git://github.com/Empact/override_rake_task.git
@@ -0,0 +1,354 @@
1
+ == 3.1.6 (September 9, 2010)
2
+
3
+ * bug fix
4
+
5
+ * load active_support in a way that is compatible with 2.x and 3.x
6
+ (fixes gh issue #27)
7
+ * change the way we monkey patch Nokogiri to leave the original
8
+ behaviour of the search() method unchanged (fixes gh issue #16)
9
+ * Unofficial release by James Healy, empact has stepped back from maintaining
10
+ roxml
11
+
12
+ == 3.1.5 (December 18, 2009)
13
+
14
+ * bug fix
15
+
16
+ * don't use tasks/ because those rake files are picked up by those vendoring roxml
17
+
18
+ == 3.1.4 (December 18, 2009)
19
+
20
+ * bug fix
21
+
22
+ * require the necessary version of active support (#tap wasn't introduced until 2.3)
23
+
24
+ == 3.1.3 (October 30, 2009)
25
+
26
+ * minor enhancements
27
+
28
+ * Add support for local-name() reference reading via :namespace => '*'
29
+ (ala http://techrageo.us/2008/11/01/wildcard-namespaces-in-xpath/)
30
+
31
+ * bug fixes
32
+
33
+ * attributes collected :as => [] were previously output improperly,
34
+ as a single attribute on a single node
35
+ * don't output crazy, context-less namespaces and local-name xpaths
36
+ when trying to output namespaced attributes
37
+
38
+ == 3.1.2 (October 18, 2009)
39
+
40
+ * minor enhancements
41
+
42
+ * Retain whitespace in element contents, but still default on blank (rather than entirely empty) elements
43
+
44
+ * bug fixes
45
+
46
+ * Include namespaces in xml output
47
+ * Fix that auto-wrapped collections weren't output with their wrappers
48
+ (which requires introducing the roxml_references accessor on the instance)
49
+
50
+ == 3.1.1 (October 17, 2009)
51
+
52
+ * bug fix
53
+
54
+ * Fix bad load paths
55
+
56
+ == 3.1 (October 16, 2009)
57
+
58
+ * major enhancements
59
+
60
+ * Add support for registering XML namespace prefixes via the xml_namespaces method
61
+
62
+ * bug fix
63
+
64
+ * References to arrays of attributes were only returning the first. No more.
65
+
66
+ == 3.0 (October 14, 2009)
67
+
68
+ * major enhancements
69
+
70
+ * Add Nokogiri support
71
+ * Remove previously deprecated functionality
72
+ * Remove REXML support
73
+ * Error on any unrecognized options
74
+ * Normalize hash declaration syntax:
75
+ * for :key => '@string', string is taken to be the :from argument
76
+ * for :key => {:from => '@string', :as => Type}, the arguments are just the same as a regular declaration
77
+
78
+ * minor enhancements
79
+
80
+ * Include 't' and 'f' in the list of possible boolean values, since rails uses them
81
+ * Remove :attrs hash syntax. Not particularly helpful & somewhat obfuscatory. Use :key, :value instead.
82
+ * Default attrs ending in '_at' to DateTime. This can be overriden via :as
83
+ * Default attrs ending in '_on' to Date. This can be overriden via :as
84
+ * Don't require rubygems within the library
85
+ * Don't mess with the load path
86
+
87
+ == 2.5.4 (October 4, 2009)
88
+
89
+ * bug fix
90
+
91
+ * Rely on REXML's #add_child and LibXML's <<, rather than #child_add which had been removed from REXML and deprecated from LibXML
92
+
93
+ == 2.5.3 (March 22, 2009)
94
+
95
+ * minor enhancement
96
+
97
+ * Work around apparently unintentional breaking change in libxml-ruby 1.1.3
98
+
99
+ == 2.5.2 (March 12, 2009)
100
+
101
+ * minor enhancements
102
+
103
+ * Remove dependency on an Object#try which conflicted with ActiveSupport 2.3's version
104
+ * Document the :to_xml option for attr references
105
+ * Require active_support directly, as it's less brittle and plays nicer with other libraries
106
+
107
+ == 2.5.1 (March 2, 2009)
108
+
109
+ * minor enhancements
110
+
111
+ * Add Document#save to REXML support, complete with XMLDecl output
112
+
113
+ * bug fixes
114
+
115
+ * rexml support has been fixed
116
+ * the first example in the readme was broken and has been fixed
117
+
118
+ == 2.5.0 (February 24, 2009)
119
+
120
+ * major enhancements
121
+
122
+ * support for mapping ActiveRecord classes. See examples/rails.rb.
123
+ * .from_xml will now use the setter for the declared variable, if one is available,
124
+ rather than directly setting the instance variable
125
+ * All declaration type arguments are now supported via the :as parameter, e.g. :as => [MyType]. Other uses are deprecated.
126
+ * All xml source path arguments are now supported via the :from and :in parameters, e.g. :from => :attr or :from => '@MyAttr'. Other uses are deprecated.
127
+ * All other options are presented separately, e.g. :cdata => true rather than :as => :cdata. Other uses are deprecated.
128
+
129
+ * minor enhancements
130
+
131
+ * .xml_attr declaration declares neither a reader nor a writer. With it you're left to your own devices.
132
+ * You can use literal [] for the [:text] object type declaration,
133
+ though they should be used in the :as parameter: :as => []
134
+ * You can use [] with your :as declarations. e.g. :as => [Float] is
135
+ equivalent to the old :as => [Float, :array]
136
+ * Show the actual call point of a deprecation, rather than some internal path
137
+ * Add support for BigDecimal and Fixnum as block shorthands [James Healy]
138
+ * Update libxml support to 0.9.6, and add it as a dependency, to ensure correct versioning, and
139
+ as it's an order of magnitude faster than rexml
140
+
141
+ * breaking changes
142
+
143
+ * :else option only applies to instances created via .from_xml
144
+ * On .from_xml, #initialize is now called with the *initialization_args before extracting attributes from the xml.
145
+ * #xml_initialize has been replaced with the #after_parse callback, which takes no arguments.
146
+ * .xml_accessor will overwrite the setter for this variable if it has already been defined. Use .xml_reader or .xml_attr,
147
+ or define your writer later, if this is not the behavior you want.
148
+
149
+ * deprecations
150
+
151
+ * Use :cdata => true rather than :as => :cdata
152
+ * Use literal [] around your regular object type, rather than :as => :array
153
+ * Use :from => :content rather than the :content object declaration type
154
+ * Specifying an unknown symbol or Class for :as will raise in 3.0
155
+ * Specifying :as with anything other than a type argument e.g. :bool, Float, [Date],
156
+ will not be supported in 3.0
157
+ * Use :from => :attr or :from => '@attribute_name' rather than the :attr
158
+ object declaration type
159
+ * Passing any type declaration outside the :as parameter is deprecated
160
+ * In 3.0, attributes ending in _on and _at will default to :as => Date and DateTime, respectively,
161
+ rather than :text
162
+ * Deprecated hash :attrs declaration syntax in favor of {:key => '@attr1', :value => '@attr2'}
163
+ * Deprecated hash {Type => 'name'} declaration syntax in favor of {:as => Type, :from => 'name}
164
+ * Deprecated String#to_utf and #to_latin.
165
+
166
+ * bug fixes
167
+
168
+ * xml_accessor now properly handles punctuation, such that the writer appears without '?' for boolean attributes
169
+ * text node contents are no longer truncated when '&' are present in the contents
170
+ * When using :as => Integer or Float, don't raise on missing element [James Healy]
171
+
172
+ == 2.4.3 (February 1, 2009)
173
+
174
+ * 1 bug fix
175
+
176
+ * Fix roxml to work in ruby 1.8.6, which has been broken since the removal of
177
+ extensions in version 2.4.1. Thanks Pat! [Pat Nakajima]
178
+
179
+ == 2.4.2 (January 31, 2009)
180
+
181
+ * 1 major enhancement
182
+
183
+ * xml_namespace for declaring Class-level, inheritable default namespaces.
184
+
185
+ * 4 minor enhancements
186
+
187
+ * add :as => Time, DateTime, and Date support
188
+ * support Pathname, IO and URI objects as #from_xml arguments
189
+ * :as => :bool now supports all capitalizations of 'true', 'false', 'yes', 'no', as well as '1' and '0'
190
+ * For basic types (:as => Integer, Float, Date, &c.), interpret empty strings just
191
+ as missing elements (by returning nil), rather than raising. Raise behavior can be
192
+ accessed by supplying your own block or using the :required option.
193
+
194
+ * 3 bug fixes
195
+
196
+ * Arrays of attrs or elements :as => :bool weren't previously supported. An oversight.
197
+ * Don't apply xml_convention if name is explicitly set
198
+ * Protect xpath operators : and / from modification via String#camelcase & such
199
+
200
+ == 2.4.1 (January 28, 2009)
201
+
202
+ * 3 minor enhancements
203
+
204
+ * remove dependency on 'extensions' gem, as we weren't using it much and it
205
+ was causing problems for some
206
+ * deprecate the 'xml' declaration in favor of the more explicit 'xml_reference'
207
+ declaration. Reorder params to make for cleaner 3.0 transition.
208
+ * deprecate '#tag_name' in favor of 'self.class.tag_name', as it's a class-specific value
209
+
210
+ == 2.4.0 (January 15, 2009)
211
+
212
+ * 1 major enhancement
213
+
214
+ * Add xml_convention to enable easy defaulting to common naming formats, such as camel-case and
215
+ underscored [Ben Woosley]
216
+
217
+ * 6 minor enhancements
218
+
219
+ * Add :frozen option for freezing values on parse [Ben Woosley]
220
+ * Attempt to minimize node creation by better matching wrappers [Ben Woosley]
221
+ * Preserve hash values where a single key maps to multiple values, return them as an array rather
222
+ any single one of them at random (as in group_by rather than index_by) [Ben Woosley]
223
+ * Deprecate #xml_name? as it's only used for triggering the xml_name warning [Ben Woosley]
224
+ * REXML parser ignores whitespace, which doesn't matter to us anyway [Ben Woosley]
225
+ * xml_name is inherited by default [Ben Woosley]
226
+
227
+ * 2 bug fixes
228
+
229
+ * Don't detect objects which define their own empty? as being absent for the purposes
230
+ of :default and :required [Ben Woosley]
231
+ * Sub-objects pick up their parent's attributes, even if they're added after
232
+ the child's use [Ben Woosley]
233
+
234
+ == 2.3.2 (December 11, 2008)
235
+
236
+ * Fix that both false and nil values were excluded from to_xml output, when only nil values should be [Ben Woosley]
237
+
238
+ == 2.3.1 (December 9, 2008)
239
+
240
+ * Add missing dependencies to extensions/enumerable and Symbol.to_proc,
241
+ which are as-yet inexplicably pre-included on my system... [Ben Woosley, Per Melin]
242
+
243
+ == 2.3 (December 7, 2008)
244
+
245
+ * Fix a bug in the application of blocks to array types [Ben Woosley]
246
+
247
+ * Objects now inherit xml attributes from their parents, as they should [Ben Woosley, Per Melin]
248
+
249
+ * Add #xml_initialize, which is called at the end of #from_xml, after the xml attributes
250
+ are set. Deprecate the half-baked xml_construct in it's favor. [Ben Woosley]
251
+
252
+ * Fix a bug in the handling of empty Hash types [Ben Woosley]
253
+
254
+ * Implement automatic bool-ification when the accessor name ends with ?. [Ben Woosley]
255
+
256
+ * Add missing dependency ActiveSupport [Ben Woosley]
257
+
258
+ * Remove support for installing as a rails plugin [Ben Woosley]
259
+
260
+ * Fix a bug where xml_construct was using the refs' names rather than their accessor names for comparison [Ben Woosley]
261
+
262
+ * Significantly reduce our footprint by selectively including smaller parts of ActiveSupport and Extensions.
263
+ This avoids problems such as the conflict between ActiveSupport's #to_json and the JSON gem's #to_json.
264
+ Thanks to Per Melin for reporting this problem. [Ben Woosley]
265
+
266
+ * Rationalize sub-element xml naming by enforcing the following precedence for the containing xml of an object:
267
+ :from of parent, xml_name of child, parent's accessor name. The previous fallback did not include xml_name.
268
+ This new behavior is more consistent, explicit, predictable, and DRY, but it is a breaking change, so a warning
269
+ is printed to alert others of this behavior change. ROXML::SILENCE_XML_NAME_WARNING may be used to deactivate this
270
+ warning. [Ben Woosley, James W. Thompson, Delynn Berry]
271
+
272
+ == 2.2 (November 2, 2008)
273
+
274
+ * fix gem dependencies [James Healy]
275
+
276
+ * Add block shorthands for Float and Integer, which precede the block argume if present [Ben Woosley]
277
+
278
+ * Add :required option to throw on absence [Ben Woosley]
279
+
280
+ * Deprecate the non-specific #parse in favor of #from_xml [Ben Woosley]
281
+
282
+ * Fix a bug whereby the default value was carrying over information from one object to another [James Healy, Ben Woosley]
283
+
284
+ * Fix support for :in on :attr elements [Ben Woosley]
285
+
286
+ * Deprecate Array#to_h in favor of Array#to_hash [Ben Woosley]
287
+
288
+ * Deprecate Object#to_latin and Object#to_utf in favor of the same methods on String [Ben Woosley]
289
+
290
+ == 2.1 (October 3, 2008)
291
+
292
+ * rake test now uses the default parser selection [Ben Woosley]
293
+
294
+ * Added rcov code coverage for tests [Anders Engström]
295
+
296
+ * Accommodate that libxml requires you to name the default namespace when available [Ben Woosley]
297
+
298
+ * Enable optional selection of a parser through the early definition of ROXML::XML_PARSER
299
+ [Ben Woosley]
300
+
301
+ * Enable fallback to the REXML parser if LibXML is unavailable [Ben Woosley]
302
+
303
+ == 2.0 (September 20, 2008)
304
+
305
+ * :text_content becomes simply :content, and is joined by :name [Ben Woosley]
306
+
307
+ * Allow hash mapping from node names and contents: [Ben Woosley]
308
+
309
+ xml_reader :name, {:key => :name,
310
+ :value => :content}, :in => 'container'
311
+
312
+ * Allow supplying a default via the :else option [Ben Woosley]
313
+
314
+ * Allow hash mapping of text and attr elements: [Ben Woosley]
315
+
316
+ xml_reader :name, {:key => {:text => 'key_name'},
317
+ :value => {:attr => 'attr_name'}}, :in => 'container'
318
+
319
+ * Allow 'xml_reader :name, [Type]' as an alternative to 'xml_reader :name, Type, :as => :array'
320
+ [Ben Woosley]
321
+
322
+ * Allow attaching a block for manipulating a value on fetch: [Ben Woosley]
323
+
324
+ xml_accessor :count, :attr => 'my_int' do |val|
325
+ Integer(val)
326
+ end
327
+
328
+ * Collapse xml_attr, xml_text and xml_object into a single api: xml, patterned after the standard
329
+ attr, and offer xml_reader and xml_accessor as well. Remove the :readonly arg in the process
330
+ [Ben Woosley]
331
+
332
+ * Attach string extensions (#to_latin, #to_utf) to Object rather than String, so we don't have to
333
+ call #to_s first every time [Ben Woosley]
334
+
335
+ * Allow a ROXML object to call its constructor on initialization with the xml_construct function
336
+ [Ben Woosley]
337
+
338
+ * Use symbols (e.g. :text_content) rather than TAG_CONSTANTS (e.g. TEXT_CONTENT) for readability
339
+ [Ben Woosley]
340
+
341
+ * Use named arguments (e.g. :as, :in) rather than positional for clarity,
342
+ position-independence, and invisible exclusion [Ben Woosley]
343
+
344
+ * Split out rails_plugin_package_task_gem [Ben Woosley]
345
+
346
+ * Increase testing significantly, particularly on new functionality & to_xml [Ben Woosley]
347
+
348
+ == 1.2 (October 10, 2007)
349
+
350
+ * Fix a bug such that the TEXT_CONTENT tag is no longer also READ_ONLY [Russ Olsen]
351
+
352
+ == 1.1 (September 24, 2006)
353
+
354
+ * Initial design & development [Zak Mandhro & Anders Engstrom]
data/LICENSE ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
1
+ Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Ben Woosley, Zak Mandhro and Anders Engstrom
2
+
3
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
4
+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
5
+ "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
6
+ without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
7
+ distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
8
+ permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
9
+ the following conditions:
10
+
11
+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
12
+ included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
13
+
14
+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
15
+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
16
+ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
17
+ NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
18
+ LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
19
+ OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
20
+ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
1
+ ROXML Ruby Object to XML mapping library.
2
+
3
+ For more information visit:
4
+
5
+ http://rdoc.info/projects/Empact/roxml
6
+ http://empact.github.com/roxml/
7
+ http://rubyforge.org/projects/roxml/
8
+
9
+ Please submit bugs here:
10
+
11
+ http://github.com/Empact/roxml/issues
12
+
13
+
14
+ =ROXML is of, by, and for all of us
15
+
16
+ I've taken a lead role on ROXML these past months, but unfortunately I, Ben Woosley (Empact), am unable to continue to maintain ROXML at this time, as it no longer aligns with my other interests & efforts. While I would very much like to fix the bugs listed on the github issues page, I'm simply not the person to do it, given my other concerns.
17
+
18
+ But don't be mistaken, the library covers most cases very well, and is on the better-tested side of the spectrum (some 353 examples, all green as of this writing).
19
+
20
+ If you run into a problem with ROXML, *please* take advantage of those tests, and github, by rolling up your sleeves and making a fix! Your fellow programmers, myself included, will appreciate you for it.
21
+
22
+ =Quick Start Guide
23
+
24
+ This is a short usage example. See ROXML::ClassMethods::Declarations and packaged test cases for more information.
25
+
26
+ ==Basic Mapping
27
+
28
+ Consider an XML document representing a Library containing a number of Books. You
29
+ can map this structure to Ruby classes that provide addition useful behavior. With
30
+ ROXML, you can annotate the Ruby classes as follows:
31
+
32
+ class Book
33
+ include ROXML
34
+
35
+ xml_accessor :isbn, :from => "@ISBN" # attribute with name 'ISBN'
36
+ xml_accessor :title
37
+ xml_accessor :description, :cdata => true # text node with cdata protection
38
+ xml_accessor :author
39
+ end
40
+
41
+ class Library
42
+ include ROXML
43
+
44
+ xml_accessor :name, :from => "NAME", :cdata => true
45
+ xml_accessor :books, :as => [Book] # by default roxml searches for books for in <book> child nodes, then, if none are present, in ./books/book children
46
+ end
47
+
48
+ To create a library and put a number of books in it we could run the following code:
49
+
50
+ book = Book.new
51
+ book.isbn = "0201710897"
52
+ book.title = "The PickAxe"
53
+ book.description = "Best Ruby book out there!"
54
+ book.author = "David Thomas, Andrew Hunt, Dave Thomas"
55
+
56
+ lib = Library.new
57
+ lib.name = "Favorite Books"
58
+ lib.books = [book]
59
+
60
+ To save this information to an XML file:
61
+
62
+ doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.new
63
+ doc.root = lib.to_xml
64
+ open("library.xml", 'w') do |file|
65
+ file << doc.serialize
66
+ end
67
+
68
+ or
69
+
70
+ doc = LibXML::XML::Document.new
71
+ doc.root = lib.to_xml
72
+ doc.save("library.xml")
73
+
74
+ To later populate the library object from the XML file:
75
+
76
+ lib = Library.from_xml(File.read("library.xml"))
77
+
78
+ Similarly, to do a one-to-one mapping between XML objects, such as book and publisher,
79
+ you would add a reference to another ROXML class. For example:
80
+
81
+ <book isbn="0974514055">
82
+ <title>Programming Ruby - 2nd Edition</title>
83
+ <description>Second edition of the great book.</description>
84
+ <publisher>
85
+ <name>Pragmatic Bookshelf</name>
86
+ </publisher>
87
+ </book>
88
+
89
+ can be mapped using the following code:
90
+
91
+ class Publisher
92
+ include ROXML
93
+
94
+ xml_accessor :name
95
+
96
+ # other important functionality
97
+ end
98
+
99
+ class BookWithPublisher
100
+ include ROXML
101
+
102
+ xml_name 'book'
103
+ xml_reader :publisher, :as => Publisher
104
+
105
+ # or, alternatively, if no class is needed to hang functionality on:
106
+ # xml_reader :publisher, :from => 'name', :in => 'publisher'
107
+ end
108
+
109
+ Note: In the above example, _xml_name_ annotation tells ROXML to set the element
110
+ name to "book" for mapping to XML. The default is XML element name is the class name in lowercase; "bookwithpublisher"
111
+ in this case.
112
+
113
+ === Namespace Support
114
+
115
+ Namespaced nodes are supported via the xml_namespace and xml_namespaces declarations and the :from and :namespace attr options. See spec/xml/namespace_spec.rb for usage.
116
+
117
+ Note that ROXML does not currently support outputting namespaced nodes. This is planned for a future version.
118
+
119
+ == Manipulation
120
+
121
+ Extending the above examples, say you want to parse a book's page count and have it available as an Integer.
122
+ In such a case, you can extend any object with a block to manipulate it's value at parse time. For example:
123
+
124
+ class Dog
125
+ include ROXML
126
+
127
+ xml_reader(:age, :from => '@human_years', :as => Integer) {|years| years * 7 }
128
+ end
129
+
130
+ The result of the block above is stored, rather than the actual value parsed from the document.
131
+
132
+ == Construction
133
+
134
+ Object life-cycle is as follows: .from_xml is called with a first argument representing the xml
135
+ in file, string, or path form, and with optional initialization_args following.
136
+
137
+ Firt .new and thus #initialize, is called with those same initialization_args, or no args if none
138
+ are present. Then the object is populated with the attribute values from xml. Then the
139
+ #after_parse callback is called, with no arguments.
140
+
141
+ In #after_parse you can ensure that your object initialization is complete, including initialization which
142
+ requires more than one variable in concert.
143
+
144
+ E.g.:
145
+
146
+ class Measurement
147
+ include ROXML
148
+
149
+ xml_reader :units, :from => :attr
150
+ xml_reader :value, :from => :content
151
+
152
+ def initialize(value = 0, units = 'meters')
153
+ to_metric
154
+ end
155
+
156
+ private
157
+ def after_parse
158
+ # xml attributes of self are already valid
159
+ to_metric
160
+ end
161
+
162
+ def to_metric
163
+ # translate units & value into metric, for example
164
+ end
165
+ end
166
+
167
+ One important use of this approach is to make ROXML object which may or may not include an xml backing,
168
+ which may be used via _new_ construction as well as _from_xml_ construction.
169
+
170
+ == Selecting a parser
171
+
172
+ By default, ROXML will use Nokogiri if it is available, followed by LibXML. If you'd like to
173
+ explicitly require one or the other, you may do the following:
174
+
175
+ module ROXML
176
+ XML_PARSER = 'nokogiri' # or 'libxml'
177
+ end
178
+ require 'roxml'
179
+
180
+ For more information on available annotations, see ROXML::ClassMethods::Declarations
181
+
182
+ == Note on Patches/Pull Requests
183
+
184
+ * Fork the project.
185
+ * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
186
+ * Add specs for it. This is important so I don't break it in a
187
+ future version unintentionally.
188
+ * Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
189
+ (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but
190
+ bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
191
+ * Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
192
+
193
+ == Copyright
194
+
195
+ Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Ben Woosley, Zak Mandhro and Anders Engstrom. See LICENSE for details.