empty(value) — XmlSimple — Ruby on Rails 2.2.3

empty(value)

Checks, if an object is nil, an empty String or an empty Hash. Thanks to Norbert Gawor for a bugfix.

value: Value to be checked for emptiness.

Parameters

value req

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/xml-simple-1.0.11/xmlsimple.rb, line 911
  def empty(value)
    case value
      when Hash
        return value.empty?
      when String
        return value !~ /\S/m
      else
        return value.nil?
    end
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/xml-simple-1.0.11/xmlsimple.rb line 911 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

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