Class Versionomy::Format::Base
In: lib/versionomy/format/base.rb
Parent: Object

The base format.

This format doesn‘t actually do anything useful. It causes all strings to parse to the schema‘s default value, and unparses all values to the empty string. Instead, the purpose here is to define the API for a format.

All formats must define the methods schema, parse, and unparse. It is also recommended that formats define the === method, though this is not strictly required. Finally, formats may optionally implement uparse_for_serialize.

Formats need not extend this base class, as long as they duck-type these methods.

Methods

Public Class methods

Create an instance of this base format, with the given schema.

Public Instance methods

Determine whether the given value uses this format.

Parse the given string and return a value.

The optional parameter hash can be used to pass parameters to the parser to affect its behavior. The exact parameters supported are defined by the format.

Returns the schema understood by this format.

Unparse the given value and return a string.

The optional parameter hash can be used to pass parameters to the unparser to affect its behavior. The exact parameters supported are defined by the format.

An optional method that does unparsing especially for serialization. Implement this if normal unparsing is "lossy" and doesn‘t guarantee reconstruction of the version number. This method should attempt to unparse in such a way that the entire version value can be reconstructed from the unparsed string. Serialization routines will first attempt to call this method to unparse for serialization. If this method is not present, the normal unparse method will be used.

Return either the unparsed string, or an array consisting of the unparsed string and a hash of parse params to pass to the parser when the string is to be reconstructed. You may also either return nil or raise Versionomy::Errors::UnparseError if the unparsing cannot be done satisfactorily for serialization. In this case, serialization will be done using the raw value data rather than an unparsed string.

This default implementation just turns around and calls unparse. Thus it is equivalent to the method not being present at all.

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