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Crystal Programming

By : George Dietrich, Guilherme Bernal
Book Image

Crystal Programming

By: George Dietrich, Guilherme Bernal

Overview of this book

Crystal is a programming language with a concise and user-friendly syntax, along with a seamless system and a performant core, reaching C-like speed. This book will help you gain a deep understanding of the fundamental concepts of Crystal and show you how to apply them to create various types of applications. This book comes packed with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples. You'll learn how to use Crystal’s features to create complex and organized projects relying on OOP and its most common design patterns. As you progress, you'll gain a solid understanding of both the basic and advanced features of Crystal. This will enable you to build any application, including command-line interface (CLI) programs and web applications using IOs, concurrency and C bindings, HTTP servers, and the JSON API. By the end of this programming book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to use Crystal programming for building and understanding any application you come across.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started
5
Part 2: Learning by Doing – CLI
10
Part 3: Learn by Doing – Web Application
13
Part 4: Metaprogramming
18
Part 5: Supporting Tools

Supporting other IO

We have made quite a few improvements already during the last section: we no longer have to hardcode the input data, and we're better at handling errors coming from jq. But remember how we also wanted to support using our application in a library context? How would someone go about processing the response body of an HTTP response and outputting it to a file if our processor is tightly coupled with terminal-based concepts?

In this section, we're going to address this deficiency by refactoring things again to allow any IO type, not just terminal-based IO types.

The first step in accomplishing this is to re-introduce arguments to Processor#process: one for the input arguments, input IO, output IO, and error IO. Ultimately, this is going to look like this:

class Transform::Processor
  def process(input_args : Array(String), input : IO, 
    output : IO, error : IO) : Nil
    filter = input_args.shift...