Sean Malloy wrote:
> Is there such any way to take a string representation of a Boolean, and turn
> it into a boolean?.. There is no asBoolean method on String, Boolean
> contains no class methods for converting a string to a boolean... I know I
> could go and define my own method (yay smalltalk)
>
> Is it just easier to go
>
> | option |
> option := (dictionary at: 'compress') = 'true'.
>
> rather than something like
>
> | option |
> option := (dictionary at: 'compress') asBoolean.
>
> Its coming back to parsing a connection string. Once the string is parsed,
> and each component is broken up into Associations in a dictionary, each key
> / value are strings. But in some instances I want to treat a value as a
> Number (asNumber on string), but some as boolean options.
>
> I guess I could change an option from 'true' to '1', and then do '1'
> asNumber asBoolean, but tyat just seems plain wrong.....
>
> I keep wanting to write a class similar to the C# Convert class..
>
> option := Convert toBoolean: (dictionary at: 'compress').
>
> or something. What does everyone else do?
====
>>slurp: connectionString
" Answer dictionary of {keys -> boolean, number, or string} "
(bools := Dictionary new) at: 'true' put: true at: 'false' put: false.
resolved := [:boolean|
[:value|
boolean
at: value asLowercase
ifAbsent: [value isNumeric
ifTrue: [value asNumber]
ifFalse: [value]
] ] ] value: bools.
^(self parseIntoAssociations: connectionString)
inject: Dictionary new
into: [:dictionary :component|
dictionary
at: component key
put: (resolved value: component value)
; yourself
]
====
-cstb
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