View Source Luminous.Variable behaviour (luminous v0.1.0)

a variable is defined at compile time and its values are determined at runtime

it also stores a current value that can be updated

a variable value is descriptive in that it contains a label (for display purposes) and the actual value

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Callbacks

a module must implement this behaviour to be passed as an argument to define/3

Functions

defines a new variable and returns the struct does not calculate the values yet (see populate/1 below) the module must implement the Variable behaviour

extract the label from the descriptive variable value

extract the value from the descriptive variable value

find and return the variable with the specified id in the supplied variables

returns the variable's current (descriptive) value (or nil)

find the variable with the supplied id in the supplied variables and return its current extracted value

uses the query to populate the var's values and returns the new struct also sets the current value to be the first of the calculated values

replaces the variables current value with the new value and returns the new struct performs a check whether the supplied value is a valid value (i.e. exists in values) if it's not, then it returns the struct unchanged

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@type descriptive_value() :: %{label: binary(), value: binary()}
@type simple_value() :: binary()
@type t() :: %Luminous.Variable{
  current: descriptive_value() | nil,
  id: atom(),
  label: binary(),
  mod: module(),
  values: [descriptive_value()]
}

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@callback variable(atom()) :: [simple_value() | descriptive_value()]

a module must implement this behaviour to be passed as an argument to define/3

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@spec define(atom(), binary(), module()) :: t()

defines a new variable and returns the struct does not calculate the values yet (see populate/1 below) the module must implement the Variable behaviour

@spec extract_label(descriptive_value()) :: binary()

extract the label from the descriptive variable value

@spec extract_value(descriptive_value()) :: binary()

extract the value from the descriptive variable value

@spec find([t()], atom()) :: t() | nil

find and return the variable with the specified id in the supplied variables

@spec get_current(t()) :: descriptive_value() | nil

returns the variable's current (descriptive) value (or nil)

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get_current_and_extract_value(variables, variable_id)

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@spec get_current_and_extract_value([t()], atom()) :: binary()

find the variable with the supplied id in the supplied variables and return its current extracted value

@spec populate(t()) :: t()

uses the query to populate the var's values and returns the new struct also sets the current value to be the first of the calculated values

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update_current(var, new_value)

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@spec update_current(t(), binary()) :: t()

replaces the variables current value with the new value and returns the new struct performs a check whether the supplied value is a valid value (i.e. exists in values) if it's not, then it returns the struct unchanged