/* * Metadata - jQuery plugin for parsing metadata from elements * * Copyright (c) 2006 John Resig, Yehuda Katz, Jörn Zaefferer, Paul McLanahan * * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html * */ /** * Sets the type of metadata to use. Metadata is encoded in JSON, and each property * in the JSON will become a property of the element itself. * * There are three supported types of metadata storage: * * attr: Inside an attribute. The name parameter indicates *which* attribute. * * class: Inside the class attribute, wrapped in curly braces: { } * * elem: Inside a child element (e.g. a script tag). The * name parameter indicates *which* element. * * The metadata for an element is loaded the first time the element is accessed via jQuery. * * As a result, you can define the metadata type, use $(expr) to load the metadata into the elements * matched by expr, then redefine the metadata type and run another $(expr) for other elements. * * @name $.metadata.setType * * @example

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* @before $.metadata.setType("class") * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label" * @desc Reads metadata from the class attribute * * @example

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* @before $.metadata.setType("attr", "data") * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label" * @desc Reads metadata from a "data" attribute * * @example

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* @before $.metadata.setType("elem", "script") * @after $("#one").metadata().item_id == 1; $("#one").metadata().item_label == "Label" * @desc Reads metadata from a nested script element * * @param String type The encoding type * @param String name The name of the attribute to be used to get metadata (optional) * @cat Plugins/Metadata * @descr Sets the type of encoding to be used when loading metadata for the first time * @type undefined * @see metadata() */ !function($){$.extend({metadata:{defaults:{type:"class",name:"metadata",cre:/(\{.*\})/,single:"metadata"},setType:function(a,b){this.defaults.type=a,this.defaults.name=b},get:function(elem,opts){var data,m,e,attr,settings=$.extend({},this.defaults,opts); // returned cached data if it already exists if( // check for empty string in single property settings.single.length||(settings.single="metadata"),data=$.data(elem,settings.single))return data;if(data="{}","class"===settings.type)m=settings.cre.exec(elem.className),m&&(data=m[1]);else if("elem"===settings.type){if(!elem.getElementsByTagName)return void 0;e=elem.getElementsByTagName(settings.name),e.length&&(data=$.trim(e[0].innerHTML))}else void 0!==elem.getAttribute&&(attr=elem.getAttribute(settings.name),attr&&(data=attr));/*jshint evil:true */ return data.indexOf("{")<0&&(data="{"+data+"}"),data=eval("("+data+")"),$.data(elem,settings.single,data),data}}}),/** * Returns the metadata object for the first member of the jQuery object. * * @name metadata * @descr Returns element's metadata object * @param Object opts An object contianing settings to override the defaults * @type jQuery * @cat Plugins/Metadata */ $.fn.metadata=function(a){return $.metadata.get(this[0],a)}}(jQuery);