Halibut

Halibut is a tiny gem that makes it easier to deal with the HAL format.

In providing tools to build, (de)serialize, and manipulate HAL resources, Halibut has the following goals:

Provide Ruby abstractions
Clean, small API
Easily composable, for use in other libraries

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'halibut'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install halibut

Usage

There are three ways to get a resource with halibut: manual, Builder, and JSON.

Manual

require 'halibut'

# manually creating a resource
order = Halibut::Core::Resource.new "/orders/123"
order.set_property "total", 30.00
order.set_property "currency", "USD"
order.set_property "status", "shipped"

payment = Halibut::Core::Resource.new "/orders/123/payment"
payment.set_property "method", "credit"
payment.set_property "amount", "30.00"
payment.set_property "auth_code", "ABZ127"

resource = Halibut::Core::Resource.new "/orders"
resource.add_link "find", "/orders{?id}", templated: true
resource.add_link "next", "/orders/1", "name" => 'hotdog'
resource.add_link "next", "/orders/9"
resource.set_property "currentlyProcessing", 14
resource.set_property "shippedToday", 20
resource.embed_resource "payment", payment
resource.add_embed_resource "orders", order

Halibut::Builder

require 'halibut/builder'

builder = Halibut::Builder.new '/orders' do
    property 'currentlyProcessing', 14
    property 'shippedToday', 20
    
    namespace 'th', 'http://things-db.com/{rel}'
    
    link 'find', '/orders{?id}', templated: true
    link 'next', '/orders/1', name: 'hotdog'
    link 'next', '/orders/9'
    
    link 'th:manufacturer', '/manufacturer/1'
    link 'th:manufacturer', '/manufacturer/2'
    link 'th:manufacturer', '/manufacturer/3'
end

# alternatively

builder = Halibut::Builder.new '/orders' do
    property 'currentlyProcessing', 14
    property 'shippedToday', 20
    
    namespace 'th', 'http://things-db.com/{rel}'
    
    link 'find', '/orderes{?id}', templated: true
    relation 'next' do
        link '/orders/1', name: 'hotdog'
        link '/orders/9'
    end
    relation 'th:manufacturer' do
        link '/manufacturers/1'
        link '/manufacturers/2'
        link '/manufacturers/3'
    end
end

resource = builder.resource

JSON

require 'halibut/adapter/json'

# converting to JSON
Halibut::Adapter::JSON.dump resource

# creating a resource from JSON
resource = Halibut::Adapter::JSON.load 'resource.json'

Contributing

Fork it
1. git submodule update --init
2. bundle install, optionally pass --without-development and use your own tools
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

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