Make Twitter::Base objects immutable

lib/twitter/base.rb

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ class Base
     alias to_h attrs
     alias to_hash attrs
     alias to_hsh attrs
-    def_delegators :attrs, :delete, :update
 
     # Define methods that retrieve the value from attributes
     #
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ def self.define_attribute_method(key1, klass=nil, key2=nil)
             else
               attrs = @attrs.dup
               value = attrs.delete(key1)
-              Twitter.const_get(klass).new(value.update(key2 => attrs))
+              Twitter.const_get(klass).new(value.merge(key2 => attrs))
             end
           else
             NullObject.instance

lib/twitter/relationship.rb

@@ -13,14 +13,5 @@ def initialize(attrs={})
       @attrs = attrs[:relationship]
     end
 
-    # Update the attributes of a Relationship
-    #
-    # @param attrs [Hash]
-    # @return [Twitter::Relationship]
-    def update(attrs)
-      @attrs.update(attrs[:relationship]) unless attrs[:relationship].nil?
-      self
-    end
-
   end
 end

lib/twitter/rest/api/users.rb

@@ -31,11 +31,10 @@ module Users
         # @option options [String] :lang The language which Twitter should render in for this user. The language must be specified by the appropriate two letter ISO 639-1 representation. Currently supported languages are provided by {https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/help/languages GET help/languages}.
         def settings(options={})
           request_method = options.size.zero? ? :get : :post
-          settings = object_from_response(Twitter::Settings, request_method, "/1.1/account/settings.json", options)
+          response = send(request_method.to_sym, "/1.1/account/settings.json", options)
           # https://dev.twitter.com/issues/59
-          trend_location = Array(settings.attrs[:trend_location]).first
-          settings.update(:trend_location => trend_location)
-          settings
+          response.update(:trend_location => Array(response[:trend_location]).first)
+          Twitter::Settings.from_response(response)
         end
 
         # Returns the requesting user if authentication was successful, otherwise raises {Twitter::Error::Unauthorized}

spec/twitter/base_spec.rb

@@ -24,20 +24,4 @@
     end
   end
 
-  describe "#delete" do
-    it "deletes an attribute and returns its value" do
-      base = Twitter::Base.new(:id => 1)
-      expect(base.delete(:id)).to eq(1)
-      expect(base.attrs[:id]).to be_nil
-    end
-  end
-
-  describe "#update" do
-    it "returns a hash of attributes" do
-      base = Twitter::Base.new(:id => 1)
-      base.update(:id => 2)
-      expect(base.attrs[:id]).to eq(2)
-    end
-  end
-
 end

spec/twitter/rate_limit_spec.rb

@@ -56,21 +56,4 @@
     end
   end
 
-  describe "#update" do
-    before do
-      Timecop.freeze(Time.utc(2012, 6, 6, 17, 22, 0))
-    end
-    after do
-      Timecop.return
-    end
-    it "updates a rate limit" do
-      rate_limit = Twitter::RateLimit.new("x-rate-limit-reset" => "1339019097")
-      expect(rate_limit.reset_in).to be_an Integer
-      expect(rate_limit.reset_in).to eq(15777)
-      rate_limit.update({"x-rate-limit-reset" => "1339019098"})
-      expect(rate_limit.reset_in).to be_an Integer
-      expect(rate_limit.reset_in).to eq(15778)
-    end
-  end
-
 end

spec/twitter/relationship_spec.rb

@@ -46,12 +46,4 @@
     end
   end
 
-  describe "#update" do
-    it "updates a relationship" do
-      relationship = Twitter::Relationship.new(:relationship => {:target => {:id => 7505382}})
-      relationship.update(:relationship => {:target => {:id => 14100886}})
-      expect(relationship.target.id).to eq(14100886)
-    end
-  end
-
 end