From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-10-19T12:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: What is This Construct?


On Oct 18, 2010, at 18:40 , Travis Tslib wrote:

> I can't get to the ID or Name of the item.  I've tried trx.item.id and
> trx.item[0].id and a few other things.  What is that?  How can I access
> it?  The thing that really confuses me is trx.date works.

   transaction = {
     :date => DateTime.parse(row.attributes['transactionDateTime']),
     :item => {
       :id => row.attributes['typeID'].to_i,
       :name => row.attributes['typeName']
     }
   }

that's a nested hash, just like you'd use in perl.

> myAccount.transactions.each do |trx|
>  puts "#{trx.date}"
> end

that shouldn't work... are you loading something magical? Eve-api might be doing it. I've never used that... Ah. Looking at the code I see:

  class Base # omg I hate that name for class hierarchies. DHH be damned.
    def method_missing(method, *args)
      return(@options[method]) if @options.has_key?(method)
      raise(Exceptions::AttributeException,"unknown attribute #{method}")
    end
  end

  class Transaction < Base; end

So, yeah. that's why date works... and item. But since it probably isn't recursively creating the objects, the sub-sub items won't work the same way. You'll have to use hash syntax for those (I'd file a bug too):

  trx.item[:id] and trx.item[:name]

should both work fine.