From: swille <sillewille@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T10:11:29+09:00
Subject: "Reflecting" on my self.n00b

I'm admittedly quite a novice with programming.  I'm sort of playing
around with some ideas, and I'm wondering if what I'm doing is
completely stupid, and if not, is there a better way to do it?  Also,
is there any way that I could do some type of type-ish validation on
the data?

Basically, I want to provide what I suppose would be abstract class
(?), which someone else could extend and add attributes if they'd
like.  I'd like to be able to look into the class and pick out the
attributes to populate (which is the reason for all of the sp_set &
sp_get stuff).  Basically, my thought is to be able to provide a web
interface at some point to populate the needed data of a class, and
then maybe Marshal.dump the object to a database and call it later
using that data as config data essentially.  I'm sure I could learn a
ton about this from reading Rails code, but there's so much of it that
I don't know where to look.  Output and code follows.  Please feel
free to tell me if this is dumb :O)

Output:
Enter Username: name
Enter Url: url
Enter Extra: more
Enter Password: pass
Enter Owner: own
Enter Certificate: cert
name
url
more
pass
own
cert

Code:
<code>
class ServiceProfile
    def  initialize()
    end

    def sp_set_url(url)
        @url = url
    end

    def  sp_get_url()
        @url
    end

    def sp_set_username(username)
        @username = username
    end

    def  sp_get_username()
        @username
    end

    def sp_set_password(password)
        @password = password
    end

    def sp_get_password()
        @password
    end

    def sp_set_certificate(certificate)
        @certificate = certificate
    end

    def  sp_get_certificate()
        @certificate
    end

    def sp_set_owner(owner)
        @owner = owner
    end

    def  sp_get_owner()
        @owner
    end

    def load_certificate()
        @certificate.read
    end

    def call_service(&block)
    end
end

class MyService < ServiceProfile
    def sp_set_extra(extra)
        @extra = extra
    end

    def sp_get_extra()
        @extra
    end
end

svc_profile = MyService.new

set_re = Regexp.new('^sp_set_(\w+)')
get_re = Regexp.new('^sp_get_(\w+)')

svc_profile.methods.sort.reverse.each { |meth|
    if meth.match(set_re)
        print "Enter #{Regexp.last_match(1).capitalize}: "
        value = $stdin.gets.chomp
        svc_profile.send(meth, value)
    end
}

svc_profile.methods.sort.reverse.each { |meth|
    if meth.match(get_re)
        puts svc_profile.send(meth)
    end
}
</code>