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January 13, 2012 23:48
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Roll you own API
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| // Allows the creation of an API from a base url and an array of objects with parameters and names. | |
| var API = {}; | |
| API.init = function(baseUrl, parms) { | |
| var o = {}; | |
| o.baseUrl = baseUrl; | |
| o.parms = parms; | |
| o.url = function() { | |
| var r = [], i, len; | |
| r.push(this.baseUrl); | |
| r.push('/?'); | |
| for (i = 0, len = parms.length; i < len; i++) { | |
| if (this.hasOwnProperty(this.parms[i].name)) { | |
| r.push(this.parms[i].parameter); | |
| r.push('='); | |
| r.push(this[this.parms[i].name]); | |
| r.push('&'); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // Remove last ampersand | |
| r.pop(); | |
| return r.join(''); | |
| }; | |
| return o; | |
| }; | |
| var parameters = [ | |
| { | |
| 'name':'bid', | |
| 'parameter':'bid' | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'name':'ask', | |
| 'parameter':'ask' | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'name':'high', | |
| 'parameter':'high' | |
| } | |
| ]; | |
| var yFinance = API.init('http://finance.yahoo.com', parameters); | |
| yFinance.bid = 'bid'; | |
| yFinance.ask = 1; | |
| $('#hello').text(yFinance.url()); |
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <script class="jsbin" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script> | |
| <meta charset=utf-8 /> | |
| <title>JS Bin</title> | |
| <!--[if IE]> | |
| <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> | |
| <![endif]--> | |
| <style> | |
| article, aside, figure, footer, header, hgroup, | |
| menu, nav, section { display: block; } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <p id="hello">Hello World</p> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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