Module Mongo::Conversions
In: lib/mongo/util/conversions.rb

Utility module to include when needing to convert certain types of objects to mongo-friendly parameters.

Methods

Constants

ASCENDING_CONVERSION = ["ascending", "asc", "1"]
DESCENDING_CONVERSION = ["descending", "desc", "-1"]

Public Instance methods

Converts the supplied Array to a Hash to pass to mongo as sorting parameters. The returned Hash will vary depending on whether the passed Array is one or two dimensional.

Example:

array_as_sort_parameters([["field1", :asc], ["field2", :desc]]) => { "field1" => 1, "field2" => -1}

[Source]

# File lib/mongo/util/conversions.rb, line 35
    def array_as_sort_parameters(value)
      order_by = BSON::OrderedHash.new
      if value.first.is_a? Array
        value.each do |param|
          if (param.class.name == "String")
            order_by[param] = 1
          else
            order_by[param[0]] = sort_value(param[1]) unless param[1].nil?
          end
        end
      elsif !value.empty?
        if order_by.size == 1
          order_by[value.first] = 1
        else
          order_by[value.first] = sort_value(value[1])
        end
      end
      order_by
    end

Converts the String, Symbol, or Integer to the corresponding sort value in MongoDB.

Valid conversions (case-insensitive):

ascending, asc, :ascending, :asc, 1 => 1 descending, desc, :descending, :desc, -1 => -1

If the value is invalid then an error will be raised.

[Source]

# File lib/mongo/util/conversions.rb, line 79
    def sort_value(value)
      val = value.to_s.downcase
      return 1 if ASCENDING_CONVERSION.include?(val)
      return -1 if DESCENDING_CONVERSION.include?(val)
      raise InvalidSortValueError.new(
        "#{self} was supplied as a sort direction when acceptable values are: " +
        "Mongo::ASCENDING, 'ascending', 'asc', :ascending, :asc, 1, Mongo::DESCENDING, " +
        "'descending', 'desc', :descending, :desc, -1.")
    end

Converts the supplied String or Symbol to a Hash to pass to mongo as a sorting parameter with ascending order. If the String is empty then an empty Hash will be returned.

Example:

*DEPRECATED

string_as_sort_parameters("field") => { "field" => 1 } string_as_sort_parameters("") => {}

[Source]

# File lib/mongo/util/conversions.rb, line 65
    def string_as_sort_parameters(value)
      return {} if (str = value.to_s).empty?
      { str => 1 }
    end

[Validate]