Can I use the context as @context inside an interactor class?

Question

In some interactors, several functions are defined to be used in call function (I'm not using utility for organize such functions).
Is it fine to use @context instead of context in this situation?

Ref URL: https://github.com/collectiveidea/interactor

Thanks for any help

Could you give some examples? Do you meant to create affectional methods in class? Not to have only ```call``` method? — denys281, Aug 20 '20 at 06:55
In [max](https://stackoverflow.com/users/544825/max)'s answer, it seems fine to have additional methods inside the interactor. — crazyoptimist, Aug 20 '20 at 15:46
Can you explain a bit more? I'd love to hear you. Thank you `denys281` — crazyoptimist, Aug 20 '20 at 19:10

max · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20T09:53:03.907

As you can see from the source code context is just a simple accessor (getter method) declared by attr_reader:

module Interactor
  # Internal: Install Interactor's behavior in the given class.
  def self.included(base)
    base.class_eval do
      extend ClassMethods
      include Hooks

      # Public: Gets the Interactor::Context of the Interactor instance.
      attr_reader :context
    end
  end

There is thus almost no discernible difference between accessing the instance variable directly (@context) and through the context method as long as you're accessing it from within the class that includes this module.

class MyInteractor
  include Interactor

  def my_method
    @context
    # is the exact same as 
    context
    # except for the method call
  end
end

Can I use the context as @context inside an interactor class?

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