Represents the use of the ‘if` keyword, either in the block form or the modifier form, or a ternary expression.

bar if foo
^^^^^^^^^^

if foo then bar end
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

foo ? bar : baz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Attributes
Read

The node for the condition the ‘IfNode` is testing.

if foo
   ^^^
  bar
end

bar if foo
       ^^^

foo ? bar : baz
^^^
Read

Represents the body of statements that will be executed when the predicate is evaluated as truthy. Will be ‘nil` when no body is provided.

if foo
  bar
  ^^^
  baz
  ^^^
end
Read

Represents an ‘ElseNode` or an `IfNode` when there is an `else` or an `elsif` in the `if` statement.

if foo
  bar
elsif baz
^^^^^^^^^
  qux
  ^^^
end
^^^

if foo then bar else baz end
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Class Methods

def initialize: (Location? if_keyword_loc, Prism::node predicate, Location? then_keyword_loc, StatementsNode? statements, Prism::node? consequent, Location? end_keyword_loc, Location location) -> void

Similar to type, this method returns a symbol that you can use for splitting on the type of the node without having to do a long === chain. Note that like type, it will still be slower than using == for a single class, but should be faster in a case statement or an array comparison.

def self.type: () -> Symbol

Instance Methods

Implements case-equality for the node. This is effectively == but without comparing the value of locations. Locations are checked only for presence.

def accept: (Visitor visitor) -> void

def child_nodes: () -> Array[nil | Node]

def comment_targets: () -> Array[Node | Location]

def copy: (?if_keyword_loc: Location?, ?predicate: Prism::node, ?then_keyword_loc: Location?, ?statements: StatementsNode?, ?consequent: Prism::node?, ?end_keyword_loc: Location?, ?location: Location) -> IfNode

An alias for child_nodes

def deconstruct_keys: (Array keys) -> { if_keyword_loc: Location?, predicate: Prism::node, then_keyword_loc: Location?, statements: StatementsNode?, consequent: Prism::node?, end_keyword_loc: Location?, location: Location }

def end_keyword: () -> String?

The location of the ‘end` keyword if present, `nil` otherwise.

if foo
  bar
end
^^^

def if_keyword: () -> String?

The location of the ‘if` keyword if present.

bar if foo
    ^^

The ‘if_keyword_loc` field will be `nil` when the `IfNode` represents a ternary expression.

def inspect -> String

def then_keyword: () -> String?

The location of the ‘then` keyword (if present) or the `?` in a ternary expression, `nil` otherwise.

if foo then bar end
       ^^^^

a ? b : c
  ^

Sometimes you want to check an instance of a node against a list of classes to see what kind of behavior to perform. Usually this is done by calling ‘[cls1, cls2].include?(node.class)` or putting the node into a case statement and doing `case node; when cls1; when cls2; end`. Both of these approaches are relatively slow because of the constant lookups, method calls, and/or array allocations.

Instead, you can call type, which will return to you a symbol that you can use for comparison. This is faster than the other approaches because it uses a single integer comparison, but also because if you’re on CRuby you can take advantage of the fact that case statements with all symbol keys will use a jump table.

def type: () -> Symbol