Rails How can one query association definitions
I have a lot of dynamic code which keeps complex relations in a string. ex:
"product.country.continent.planet.galaxy.name"
How can I check if these relations exist? I want a method like the following:
raise "n0开发者_JAVA技巧0b" unless Product.has_associations?("product.country.planet.galaxy")
How could I implement this?
Try this:
def has_associations?(assoc_str)
klass = self.class
assoc_str.split(".").all? do |name|
(klass = klass.reflect_on_association(name.to_sym).try(:klass)).present?
end
end
If these are active record associations, here's how you can do it:
current_class = Product
has_associations = true
paths = "country.planet.galaxy".split('.')
paths.each |item|
association = current_class.reflect_on_association( item )
if association
current_class = association.klass
else
has_associations = false
end
end
puts has_association
And this will tell you if this specific path has all the associations.
If indeed you are storing the AR associations in a string like that, this code placed in an initializer should let you do what you want. For the life of me I can't quite figure out why you'd want to do this, but I trust you have your reasons.
class ActiveRecord::Base
def self.has_associations?(relation_string="")
klass = self
relation_string.split('.').each { |j|
# check to see if this is an association for this model
# and if so, save it so that we can get the class_name of
# the associated model to repeat this step
if assoc = klass.reflect_on_association(j.to_sym)
klass = Kernel.const_get(assoc.class_name)
# alternatively, check if this is a method on the model (e.g.: "name")
elsif klass.instance_method_already_implemented?(j)
true
else
raise "Association/Method #{klass.to_s}##{j} does not exist"
end
}
return true
end
end
With this you'll need to leave off the initial model name, so for your example it would be:
Product.has_associations?("country.planet.galaxy")
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