Module: Tabulard::AttributeType Abstract

Included in:

Tabulard::AttributeTypes::Scalar

Defined in:

lib/tabulard/attribute_types.rb

Overview

This module is abstract.

It only exists to document the interface implemented by the different classes of AttributeTypes.

The minimal interface of an Attribute type.

Class Method Summary

• .build ⇒ Object

  A smarter version of #initialize, that will always return a frozen instance of the type, with optional syntactic sugar for its arguments compared to #initialize.

Instance Method Summary

• #compile(container) ⇒ Types::Type

  Given a type container, return the actual, usable type for the attribute.

• #each_column {|index, required| ... } ⇒ Object

  Enumerate the columns (one or more) that may compose the attribute in the tabular document.

Class Method Details

.build ⇒ Object

A smarter version of #initialize, that will always return a frozen instance of the type, with optional syntactic sugar for its arguments compared to #initialize.

# File 'lib/tabulard/attribute_types.rb', line 7

def self.build(*); end

Instance Method Details

#compile(container) ⇒ Types::Type

Given a type container, return the actual, usable type for the attribute.

Parameters:

• container (Types::Container)

Returns:

• (Types::Type)

# File 'lib/tabulard/attribute_types.rb', line 12

def compile(container); end

#each_column(&block) ⇒ self #each_column ⇒ Enumerator

Enumerate the columns (one or more) that may compose the attribute in the tabular document.

Overloads:

• #each_column(&block) ⇒ self

  Returns:

  • (self)
• #each_column ⇒ Enumerator

  Returns:

  • (Enumerator)

Yield Parameters:

• index (Integer, nil) —

  If there is only one column involved, then index will be nil. Otherwise, index will start at 0 and increase by 1 at each step.

• required (Boolean) —

  Whether the column must be present in the tabular document.

# File 'lib/tabulard/attribute_types.rb', line 27

def each_column; end