lucene/client/ruby/solr-ruby/lib/solr/response/base.rb

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class Solr::Response::Base
  attr_reader :raw_response

  def initialize(raw_response)
    @raw_response = raw_response
  end

  # factory method for creating a Solr::Response::* from 
  # a request and the raw response content
  def self.make_response(request, raw)

    # make sure response format seems sane
    unless [:xml, :ruby].include?(request.response_format)
      raise Solr::Exception.new("unknown response format: #{request.response_format}" )
    end

    # TODO: Factor out this case... perhaps the request object should provide the response class instead?  Or dynamically align by class name?
    #       Maybe the request itself could have the response handling features that get mixed in with a single general purpose response object?
    
    begin
      klass = eval(request.class.name.sub(/Request/,'Response'))
    rescue NameError
      raise Solr::Exception.new("unknown request type: #{request.class}")
    else
      klass.new(raw)
    end
    
  end

end