Merge pull request #188 from ifeelgoods/process_values

Add optional functionality to pre process and extract parameters.

README.rst

@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ required
 allow_nil
   Set true is ``nil`` can be passed for this param.
 
+as
+  Use by the processing functionality to change the name of a key params.
+
 meta
   Hash or array with custom metadata.
 
@@ -503,6 +506,10 @@ validate_value
 validate_presence
   Check the params presence against the documentation.
 
+process_params
+  Process and extract parameter defined from the params of the request
+  to the api_params variable
+
 app_info
   Application long description.
 
@@ -567,6 +574,34 @@ Example:
    end
 
 
+============
+ Processing
+============
+
+The goal is to extract and pre process parameters of the request.
+
+For example Rails, by default, transforms empty array to nil value,
+you want perhaps to transform it again to an empty array. Or you
+want to support an enumeration type (comma separated values) and
+you want automatically transform this string to an array.
+
+To use it, set processing_value configuration variable to true.
+In your action, use api_params variable instead of params.
+
+Also by using `as` you can separate your API parameters
+names from the names you are using inside your code.
+
+To implement it, you just have to write a process_value
+function in your validator:
+
+For an enumeration type:
+
+.. code:: ruby
+
+   def process_value(value)
+    value ? value.split(',') : []
+   end
+
 ============
  Validators
 ============

lib/apipie/configuration.rb

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ class Configuration
       :api_base_url, :doc_base_url, :required_by_default, :layout,
       :default_version, :debug, :version_in_url, :namespaced_resources,
       :validate, :validate_value, :validate_presence, :authenticate, :doc_path,
-      :show_all_examples
-
+      :show_all_examples, :process_params
 
     alias_method :validate?, :validate
     alias_method :required_by_default?, :required_by_default
@@ -37,6 +36,9 @@ def validate_presence
     end
     alias_method :validate_presence?, :validate_presence
 
+    def process_value?
+      @process_params
+    end
     # set to true if you want to use pregenerated documentation cache and avoid
     # generating the documentation on runtime (usefull for production
     # environment).
@@ -125,6 +127,7 @@ def initialize
       @version_in_url = true
       @namespaced_resources = false
       @doc_path = "doc"
+      @process_params = false
     end
   end
 end

lib/apipie/dsl_definition.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ module Apipie
   module DSL
 
     module Base
-      attr_reader :apipie_resource_descriptions
+      attr_reader :apipie_resource_descriptions, :api_params
 
       private
 
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ def _apipie_define_validators(description)
 
           old_method = instance_method(description.method)
 
+
+          # @todo we should use before_filter
           define_method(description.method) do |*args|
 
             if Apipie.configuration.validate_presence?
@@ -210,6 +212,15 @@ def _apipie_define_validators(description)
               end
             end
 
+            if Apipie.configuration.process_value?
+              @api_params = {}
+
+              description.params.each do |_, param|
+                # params processing
+                @api_params[param.as] = param.process_value(params[:"#{param.name}"]) if params.has_key?(param.name)
+              end
+            end
+
             # run the original method code
             old_method.bind(self).call(*args)
           end

lib/apipie/param_description.rb

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ module Apipie
   # validator - Validator::BaseValidator subclass
   class ParamDescription
 
-    attr_reader :method_description, :name, :desc, :allow_nil, :validator, :options, :metadata, :show
-
+    attr_reader :method_description, :name, :desc, :allow_nil, :validator, :options, :metadata, :show, :as
     attr_accessor :parent, :required
 
     def self.from_dsl_data(method_description, args)
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ def initialize(method_description, name, validator, desc_or_options = nil, optio
 
       @method_description = method_description
       @name = concern_subst(name)
+      @as = options[:as] || @name
       @desc = concern_subst(Apipie.markup_to_html(@options[:desc] || ''))
       @parent = @options[:parent]
       @metadata = @options[:meta]
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ def validate(value)
       end
     end
 
+    def process_value(value)
+      if @validator.respond_to?(:process_value)
+        @validator.process_value(value)
+      else
+        value
+      end
+    end
+
     def full_name
       name_parts = parents_and_self.map{|p| p.name if p.show}.compact
       return name.to_s if name_parts.blank?

lib/apipie/validator.rb

@@ -241,6 +241,16 @@ def validate(value)
         return true
       end
 
+      def process_value(value)
+        if @hash_params && value
+          return @hash_params.each_with_object({}) do |(key, param), api_params|
+            if value.has_key?(key)
+              api_params[param.as] = param.process_value(value[key])
+            end
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
       def description
         "Must be a Hash"
       end

spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb

@@ -565,4 +565,26 @@ class IgnoredController < ApplicationController; end
       end
     end
   end
+
+  describe "Parameter processing / extraction" do
+    before do
+      Apipie.configuration.process_params = true
+    end
+
+    it "process correctly the parameters" do
+      post :create, {:user => {:name => 'dummy', :pass => 'dummy', :membership => 'standard'}, :facts => nil}
+
+      expect(assigns(:api_params).with_indifferent_access).to eq({:user => {:name=>"dummy", :pass=>"dummy", :membership=>"standard"}, :facts => nil}.with_indifferent_access)
+    end
+
+    it "ignore not described parameters" do
+      post :create, {:user => {:name => 'dummy', :pass => 'dummy', :membership => 'standard', :id => 0}}
+
+      expect(assigns(:api_params).with_indifferent_access).to eq({:user => {:name=>"dummy", :pass=>"dummy", :membership=>"standard"}}.with_indifferent_access)
+    end
+
+    after do
+      Apipie.configuration.process_params = false
+    end
+  end
 end