Class: REXML::Element

Public Instance methods

Convert an Element to a class. This class has the same name as the element name. A hash of mappings can be used to specify a different class. For example:

 class User
   def initialize(h)
     @id = h[:id]
     @username = h[:username]
     @name = h[:name]
   end
   def authorized?
     true
   end
 end
 class UnauthorizedUser < User
   def authorized?
     false
   end
 end
 xml = '<user><id>12</id><username>mary</username><name>Mary Jane</name></user>'
 root = REXML::Document.new(xml).root
 user = root.from_xml({:user => UnauthorizedUser})
 if user.authorized?
  ...
 end

[Source]

     # File lib/response_from.rb, line 97
 97:     def from_xml(mappings = {})
 98:       if mappings.keys.include?(self.name.to_sym)
 99:         mappings[self.name.to_sym].new(argument_hash(mappings))
100:       elsif (Inflector.singularize(self.name) == self.name)
101:         if self.elements.empty?
102:           {Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_sym => self.text}
103:         else
104:           Inflector.constantize(self.name.capitalize).new(argument_hash(mappings))
105:         end
106:       else
107:         self.elements.map { |e| e.from_xml(mappings) }
108:       end
109:     end

Methods

Public Instance methods