From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-06-05T04:17:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash to OpenStruct (#81)

I manged a very small solution -- practically one line. Only problem
is, it doesn't work ;-) But honestly, it's not my fault! No really. Let
me explain.

When I first read the quiz my thoughts intitally went to the usual
concepts and I considered the Hash#traverse method I wrote some time
ago (BTW this quiz helped me improve that method. Many thanks!) But I
have good bit of experience with YAML and I immediately had a second
thought which would allow me to solve the quiz very quickily and
easily. The solution is as follows (were s containes the yaml sample).

  YAML.add_builtin_type('map'){ |t,v| OpenStruct.new(v) }; o =
YAML.load(s)

But like I said, as clever as it may be, it doesn't work. For whatever
reason Syck doesn't handle it properly. Perhaps YAML's 'map' type is
too fundamental that it can't comply, or perhaps it's a bug. I don't
know. But it just end up returning the same old Hash.

Okay I thought. There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I came up
with this close to one-liner that works around the above problem in a
most clever way.

  i = YAML::load(s)
  def Hash.def to_yaml_type
    "!ruby/object:OpenStruct"
  end
  o = YAML::load(i.to_yaml)

The nice thing about this soluiton is that it uses a built-in library
(YAML/Syck) to do all the hard work --since Syck already understands
graphs it takes care of all those messy issues. Cool.

T.