Question

I have a response @response from Sage Pay:

VPSProtocol=2.23 Status=OK StatusDetail=Server transaction registered successfully. VPSTxId={C9B14A59-1EB7-4A56-A4B1-29B84BE4861B} SecurityKey=VGGPR12XC1 NextURL=https://test.sagepay.com/Simulator/VSPServerPaymentPage.asp?TransactionID={C9B14A59-1EB7-4A56-A4B1-XXXXXXXXXXXXX} 

How can I split this into a hash of:

@response['VPSProtocol'] = "2.23"
@response['Status'] = "OK"
....

?

(Params in the response are newline separate \r\n)

Answer 1

You could do something like this…

response = "VPSProtocol=2.23\r\nStatus=OK\r\nStatusDetail=Server transaction registered successfully."
response_hash = {}

response.split("\r\n").map do |value|
  key, value = value.split("=")
  response_hash[key] = value
end

print response_hash

I’m sure there’s a handy method in ruby to do this kind of mapping, but thats a quick solution. Would love to hear some better ideas from the community!