module GroupDescendant def hierarchy(hierarchy_base = nil) expand_hierarchy_for_child(self, self, hierarchy_base) end def expand_hierarchy_for_child(child, hierarchy, hierarchy_base) if child.parent.nil? && hierarchy_base.present? raise ArgumentError.new('specified base is not part of the tree') end if child.parent && child.parent != hierarchy_base expand_hierarchy_for_child(child.parent, { child.parent => hierarchy }, hierarchy_base) else hierarchy end end def merge_hierarchy(other_element, hierarchy_base = nil) GroupDescendant.merge_hierarchies([self, other_element], hierarchy_base) end def self.merge_hierarchies(hierarchies, hierarchy_base = nil) hierarchies = Array.wrap(hierarchies) return if hierarchies.empty? unless hierarchies.all? { |hierarchy| hierarchy.is_a?(GroupDescendant) } raise ArgumentError.new('element is not a hierarchy') end first_hierarchy, *other_hierarchies = hierarchies merged = first_hierarchy.hierarchy(hierarchy_base) other_hierarchies.each do |child| next_hierarchy = child.hierarchy(hierarchy_base) merged = merge_values(merged, next_hierarchy) end merged end def self.merge_values(first_child, second_child) # When the first is an array, we need to go over every element to see if # we can merge deeper. If no match is found, we add the element to the array # # Handled cases: # [Array, Hash] if first_child.is_a?(Array) && second_child.is_a?(Hash) merge_hash_into_array(first_child, second_child) elsif first_child.is_a?(Hash) && second_child.is_a?(Array) merge_hash_into_array(second_child, first_child) # If both of them are hashes, we can deep_merge with the same logic # # Handled cases: # [Hash, Hash] elsif first_child.is_a?(Hash) && second_child.is_a?(Hash) first_child.deep_merge(second_child) { |key, first, second| merge_values(first, second) } # If only one of them is a hash, and one of them is a GroupHierachy-object # we can check if its already in the hash. If so, we don't need to do anything # # Handled cases # [Hash, GroupDescendant] elsif first_child.is_a?(Hash) && first_child.keys.include?(second_child) first_child elsif second_child.is_a?(Hash) && second_child.keys.include?(first_child) second_child # If one or both elements are a GroupDescendant, we wrap create an array # combining them. # # Handled cases: # [GroupDescendant, Array], [GroupDescendant, GroupDescendant], [Array, Array] else Array.wrap(first_child) + Array.wrap(second_child) end end def self.merge_hash_into_array(array, new_hash) if mergeable_index = array.index { |element| element.is_a?(Hash) && (element.keys & new_hash.keys).any? } array[mergeable_index] = merge_values(array[mergeable_index], new_hash) else array << new_hash end array end end