These convenience methods make it easier to work with Resources as a consumer, especially when they come from APIs that have a lot of nesting. My particular motivation comes from using Octokit, which returns Sawyer::Resources, and I routinely try to dig or fetch from them, at which point my code blows up, and I don't want to convert the whole thing to a hash to get just the one bit of data I need.
Supporting these methods, in addition to [], []=, each, and all the other enumerable methods, allows consumers to treat a Sawyer::Resource effectively as a Hash for the attributes without having to convert it to one and lose the extra behavior that the Resource provides.
These convenience methods make it easier to work with
Resources as a consumer, especially when they come from APIs that have a lot of nesting. My particular motivation comes from using Octokit, which returnsSawyer::Resources, and I routinely try todigorfetchfrom them, at which point my code blows up, and I don't want to convert the whole thing to a hash to get just the one bit of data I need.Supporting these methods, in addition to
[],[]=,each, and all the other enumerable methods, allows consumers to treat aSawyer::Resourceeffectively as a Hash for the attributes without having to convert it to one and lose the extra behavior that theResourceprovides.