Solution: Meal Categories
Go over the implementation of the meal categories retrieval problem.
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Solution
FREE_API_KEY
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# This program download require 'net/http' require 'uri' def get_url_content(url) puts "Conntecting to server..." begin url_content = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)) puts "Conntected!" return url_content rescue => e puts "Unable to connect to the server, Error: '#{e}'" exit(-1) end end def retrieve_meal_categories require 'json' json_str = get_url_content("https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/{{FREE_API_KEY}}/list.php?c=list") begin json_obj = JSON.parse(json_str) return json_obj["meals"] rescue => e puts "Unable to parse JSON object, Error: #{e}" exit(-1) end end array = retrieve_meal_categories puts "Here are the meal categories: " array.each do |hash| puts hash["strCategory"] end
Retrieving meal categories from a live service
Explanation
Lines 5–15: The
get_url_content
method connects to the internet and handles any exception ...