Module: CSD::Application::Default

Included in:
Decklink, Graphics, I2conf, Minisip, Mslog
Defined in:
lib/csd/application/default.rb

Overview

This is a module which contains all methods that each Application must implement. It provides the basic functionality so that it can be simply included by a real Application module to get started. The only thing that (in that case) really needs to be implemented is the instance method which chooses and holds the actual Application Module instance which will perform the task. All other functions in this module just require an about.yml file to be placed in the specific application sub-directory.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#actions ⇒ Object

This method returns a hash containing all valid actions (i.e. tasks) for this application. Note that the structure of this hash must be in a particular way. In the first level of the hash, a differentiation is made between actions intended for public use, such as “install” and for AI-developer use, such as “compile” or “package”. For example:

{'public' => [...], 'developer' => [...]}

Each of these two keys holds an Array with the actions. Each action is defined as a hash with the key as the action name and the value as the action description. One action looks like this for example:

[{'install' => 'Downloads and installs the cooles application of all'}]

Several actions look like this, respectively:

[ {'install' => 'Downloads and installs the cooles application of all'},
  {'update'  => 'Updates this cool application fully automatically'}      ]

The reason for choosing an Array and not a Hash to hold the actions is, because when they are presented to the end-user, the order of listing them up should be definable. It is not alphabetically, but sorted manually. A fully valid return value might look like this:

{ 'public'    => [ {'install' => 'Downloads and installs this application'  }
                   {'remove'  => 'Removes this cool application immediately'} ],
  'developer' => [ {'package' => 'Creates a debian-package for this application'} ]
}



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 77

def actions
  about.actions
end

#default_options(action = '') ⇒ Object

Comes in handy for the test suite



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 112

def default_options(action='')
  result = []
  ["common_defaults.rb", "#{action}_defaults.rb"].each do |filename|
    file = File.join(Path.applications, name, 'options', filename)
    result << File.read(file) if File.file?(file)
  end
  result.join("\n")
end

#description ⇒ Object

This method returns a short description of the application. By default it just reads the description provided in the about.yml file. It can be overwritten if the about.yml file is not used for some reason.



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 38

def description
  about.description
end

#human ⇒ Object

In order to present the name of this application to humans, neither the class name, nor the name as it appears in a command-line argument should be used. In other words, it should not be Minisip or minisip, but MiniSIP. This method returns that string and it is manually defined in the about.yml file.



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 47

def human
  about.human
end

#instance ⇒ Object

This method must be overwritten by the actual application module. It holds the application instance which was chosen for this operating system.

Raises:



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 22

def instance
  raise Error::Application::NoInstanceMethod, "The application module must define an method called `instance´."
end

#name ⇒ Object

This method returns the Name of the application formatted as a command-line argument. By default it returns the name of the own class without capital letters. E.g. the class MyClass would turn into my_class. It can be overwritten by the implementation of the actual application if another name is desired, or if the name needs to change in the future for some reason.



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 31

def name
  self.to_s.demodulize.underscorize
end

#options(action = '') ⇒ Object

This method will look for application and task specific optionsfiles of the current application module. It returns the Ruby code in a String to be eval’d by the OptionsParser. If there are no files in myapplication/options, an empty String is returned instead.



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 101

def options(action='')
  result = []
  ["#{action}.rb", "common.rb"].each do |filename|
    file = File.join(Path.applications, name, 'options', filename)
    result << File.read(file) if File.file?(file)
  end
  default_options(action) + result.join("\n")
end

#scopes(action) ⇒ Object

Some applications might react not only to tasks (such as install or compile), but also to a more fine-grained scope. Typically this is a sub-component of an application. For example, MiniSIP has the sub-components “FFmpeg”, “HDVIPER”, “Plugins”, etc. If an AI-developer wants to test only a particular part of the whole installation routine, he can instruct the AI to only perform the tasks needed to install that sub-component. This will save a lot of time in testing the functionality. In general, scopes are optional, but they may be defined here.

The scopes are specific for each action. It might be that the “install” action of minisip, has scopes a, b, and c, whereas the “compile” action has maybe no scope at all. Similarly to the actions method, this method defines scopes in a hash, where each key represents one action and the value holds an Array of all available scopes.



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# File 'lib/csd/application/default.rb', line 93

def scopes(action)
  (about.scopes.is_a?(Hash) and about.scopes.key?(action)) ? about.scopes[action] : []
end