Added field converter feature

lib/rfm/metadata/field.rb

@@ -63,20 +63,21 @@ class Field
 
       # Initializes a field object. You'll never need to do this. Instead, get your Field objects from
       # ResultSet::fields
-      def initialize(field)
+      def initialize(field, converter = nil)
         @name        = field.name #['name']
         @result      = field.result #['result']
         @type        = field.type #['type']
         @max_repeats = field.max_repeats #['max-repeats']
         @global      = field.global #['global']
+        @converter   = converter
       end
 
       # Coerces the text value from an +fmresultset+ document into proper Ruby types based on the 
       # type of the field. You'll never need to do this: Rfm does it automatically for you when you
       # access field data through the Record object.
       def coerce(value, resultset)
         return nil if (value.nil? or value.empty?)
-        case self.result.downcase
+        value = case self.result.downcase
         when "text"      then value
         when "number"    then BigDecimal.new(value)
         when "date"      then Date.strptime(value, resultset.date_format)
@@ -85,9 +86,9 @@ def coerce(value, resultset)
         when "container" then URI.parse("#{resultset.server.scheme}://#{resultset.server.host_name}:#{resultset.server.port}#{value}")
         else nil
         end
-
+        @converter.nil? ? value : @converter.call(value)
       end
 
     end # Field
   end # Metadata
-end # Rfm
+end # Rfm

lib/rfm/resultset.rb

@@ -103,9 +103,11 @@ def initialize(*args) # xml_response, caller, portals
       @foundset_count   = doc.foundset_count
       @total_count      = doc.total_count
       @table            = doc.table
-
-      (layout.table = @table) if layout and layout.table_no_load.blank?
 
+      @converter_fields = desensitize_converter_fields      
+
+      (layout.table = @table) if layout and layout.table_no_load.blank?
+
       parse_fields(doc)
 
       # This will always load portal meta, even if :include_portals was not specified.
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@ def parse_fields(doc)
       	return if doc.fields.blank?
 
         doc.fields.each do |field|
-          @field_meta[field.name] = Rfm::Metadata::Field.new(field)
+          @field_meta[field.name] = Rfm::Metadata::Field.new(field, @converter_fields[field.name])
         end
         (layout.field_names = field_names) if layout and layout.field_names_no_load.blank?
       end
@@ -175,7 +177,13 @@ def parse_portals(doc)
         end
         (layout.portal_meta = @portal_meta) if layout and layout.portal_meta_no_load.blank?
       end
-
+
+      def desensitize_converter_fields
+        rfm_hash = Rfm::CaseInsensitiveHash.new
+        (state[:converters] || {} ).each_pair { |k,v| rfm_hash[k] = v }
+        rfm_hash
+      end
+
 			#   def convert_date_time_format(fm_format)
 			#     fm_format.gsub!('MM', '%m')
 			#     fm_format.gsub!('dd', '%d')
@@ -187,4 +195,4 @@ def parse_portals(doc)
 			#   end
 
   end
-end
+end

lib/rfm/utilities/config.rb

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ module Rfm
 			password
 			database
 			layout
+			converters
 			ignore_bad_data
 			ssl
 			root_cert
@@ -180,4 +181,4 @@ def config_filter(conf, filters=nil)
 
 	end # module Config
 
-end # module Rfm
+end # module Rfm