class Lyracyst::Wordnik

Wordnik.com's service provides definitions, examples, related words, pronunciations, hyphenation, phrases, and etymologies.

Public Instance Methods

get_word(search, func, params, result) click to toggle source

Fetches dynamically generated URL. Functions are definitions, examples, relatedWords, pronunciations, hyphenation, phrases, and etymologies.

@param search [String] The word or phrase to search for. @param func [String] The search function to use. @param params [Hash] The search parameters to use. @param result [String] The search response.

# File lib/lyracyst/wordnik/word.rb, line 17
def get_word(search, func, params, result)
  prefix = 'http://api.wordnik.com:80/v4/word.json/'
  word, pcont = "#{prefix}#{search}/#{func}?", []
  params.map { |k, v|
    if k == :canon then pcont.push "useCanonical=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :incdups then pcont.push "includeDuplicates=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :increl then pcont.push "includeRelated=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :inctags then pcont.push "includeTags=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :limit then pcont.push "limit=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :part then pcont.push "partOfSpeech=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :rellimit then pcont.push "limitPerRelationshipType=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :reltypes then pcont.push "relationshipTypes=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :skip then pcont.push "skip=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :source then pcont.push "sourceDictionary=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :defdict then pcont.push "sourceDictionaries=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :tformat then pcont.push "typeFormat=#{v}&"; end
    if k == :wlmi then pcont.push "wlmi=#{v}&"; end
  }
  apikey = ENV['WORDNIK']
  pcont.push "api_key=#{apikey}"
  url = "#{word}#{pcont.join}"
  request = HTTPI::Request.new(url)
  getter = HTTPI.get(request)
  result = getter.body
end