Heavily inspired by lardawge-rfm, see github.com/lardawge/rfm.
This library parses a Filemaker Pro FMPXMLRESULT type document, nothing more, nothing less
Easy, just use:
gem install rfilemaker
To parse a Filemaker Pro export file named ‘export.xml’, use:
RFilemaker.parse('export.xml')
This returns an array of hashes, each of which represent a row in your Filemaker database. Fields are automatically converted to their ruby types.
For instance, parsing the following XML export:
<FMPXMLRESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult">
<ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
<PRODUCT BUILD="5/23/2002" NAME="FileMaker Pro"
VERSION="7.0"/>
<DATABASE DATEFORMAT="MM/dd/yy" LAYOUT="summary"
NAME="Employees.fp7" RECORDS="23" TIMEFORMAT="hh:mm:ss"/>
<METADATA>
<FIELD EMPTYOK="NO" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="First Name" TYPE="TEXT"/>
<FIELD EMPTYOK="NO" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Last Name" TYPE="TEXT"/>
<FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Department" TYPE="TEXT"/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET FOUND="2">
<ROW MODID="47" RECORDID="34">
<COL>
<DATA>Joe</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>Smith</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>Engineering</DATA>
</COL>
</ROW>
<ROW MODID="89" RECORDID="78">
<COL>
<DATA>Susan</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>Jones</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>Marketing</DATA>
</COL>
</ROW>
</RESULTSET>
</FMPXMLRESULT>
gives this Ruby hash:
[{"last name"=>"Smith", "department"=>"Engineering", "first name"=>"Joe"},
{"last name"=>"Jones", "department"=>"Marketing", "first name"=>"Susan"}]
The resulting hash is case-insensitive, so keys can be looked up in any given case.
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.