Class: FindDetail

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
app/lib/find_detail.rb

Overview

*** NOT USING THIS METHOD ***

Class Method Summary (collapse)

Class Method Details

+ (Object) person(name)

finds and returns the details of a person returns nil if the person does not exist in the database returns an array in the format of [person, [postdocs], [degrees]] if the person does not have any postdocs or degrees, this returns nil



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# File 'app/lib/find_detail.rb', line 8

def self.person(name)
  if Person.exists?(name: name)
    name = name.downcase

    # find the person in the database and extracts details from it
    # currently not using position and institution_id for anything
    # will remove those lines if we really don't need to extract them
    person_id = FindId.person(name)
    person_object = Person.find(person_id)
    position = person_object.position
    unless person_object.institution_id.nil?
      institution_object = Institution.find(person_object.institution_id)
      institution_name = institution_object.name
    end

    # make an array of postdocs that are connected to the person in json
    # need to check what happens when empty array
    postdoc_array = Array.new
    postdoc_list = Mentorship.where(:person_id => person_id)
    postdoc_list.each do |postdoc_single|
      # wouldn't this line just grab person id instead of person name?
      postdoc_array.push(postdoc_single.as_json)
    end

    # make arrays of degrees and supervisions that are connected to the person
    degree_id_array = Array.new
    degree_array = Array.new
    supervision_array = Array.new

    # this returns an array of supervisions with the same person_id
    supervision_find = Supervision.where(:person_id => person_id)

    # extracts an array of degree_ids that connect to the person_id
    # adds each supervision to supervision_array in json format
    supervision_find.each do |supervision_single|
      unless degree_id_array.include? supervision_single.degree_id
        degree_id_array.push(supervision_single.degree_id)
        supervision_array.push(supervision_single.as_json)
      end
    end

    # extracts an array of degrees from all ids found in the degree_id_array
    # in json format
    degree_id_array.each do |degree_single_id|
      degree = Degree.find(degree_single_id)
      degree_array.push(degree.as_json)
    end

    return {person: person_object.as_json,
            institution: institution_name,
            postdoc: postdoc_array,
            degree: degree_array,
            # we need to send the title
            # degree supervision should be packed with degree
            degree_supervision: supervision_array}
  end
end