module ActiveEntity::AttributeMethods

Active Entity Attribute Methods

Constants

RESTRICTED_CLASS_METHODS

Public Instance Methods

[](attr_name) click to toggle source

Returns the value of the attribute identified by attr_name after it has been typecast (for example, “2004-12-12” in a date column is cast to a date object, like Date.new(2004, 12, 12)). It raises ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError if the identified attribute is missing.

Note: :id is always present.

class Person < ActiveEntity::Base
  belongs_to :organization
end

person = Person.new(name: 'Francesco', age: '22')
person[:name] # => "Francesco"
person[:age]  # => 22

person = Person.select('id').first
person[:name]            # => ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: name
person[:organization_id] # => ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: organization_id
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 282
def [](attr_name)
  read_attribute(attr_name) { |n| missing_attribute(n, caller) }
end
[]=(attr_name, value) click to toggle source

Updates the attribute identified by attr_name with the specified value. (Alias for the protected write_attribute method).

class Person < ActiveEntity::Base
end

person = Person.new
person[:age] = '22'
person[:age] # => 22
person[:age].class # => Integer
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 296
def []=(attr_name, value)
  write_attribute(attr_name, value)
end
attribute_for_inspect(attr_name) click to toggle source

Returns an #inspect-like string for the value of the attribute attr_name. String attributes are truncated up to 50 characters, Date and Time attributes are returned in the :db format. Other attributes return the value of #inspect without modification.

person = Person.create!(name: 'David Heinemeier Hansson ' * 3)

person.attribute_for_inspect(:name)
# => "\"David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson ...\""

person.attribute_for_inspect(:created_at)
# => "\"2012-10-22 00:15:07\""

person.attribute_for_inspect(:tag_ids)
# => "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]"
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 238
def attribute_for_inspect(attr_name)
  attr_name = attr_name.to_s
  value = _read_attribute(attr_name)
  format_for_inspect(value)
end
attribute_names() click to toggle source

Returns an array of names for the attributes available on this object.

class Person < ActiveEntity::Base
end

person = Person.new
person.attribute_names
# => ["id", "created_at", "updated_at", "name", "age"]
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 206
def attribute_names
  @attributes.keys
end
attribute_present?(attr_name) click to toggle source

Returns true if the specified attribute has been set by the user or by a database load and is neither nil nor empty? (the latter only applies to objects that respond to empty?, most notably Strings). Otherwise, false. Note that it always returns true with boolean attributes.

class Task < ActiveEntity::Base
end

task = Task.new(title: '', is_done: false)
task.attribute_present?(:title)   # => false
task.attribute_present?(:is_done) # => true
task.title = 'Buy milk'
task.is_done = true
task.attribute_present?(:title)   # => true
task.attribute_present?(:is_done) # => true
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 259
def attribute_present?(attr_name)
  attr_name = attr_name.to_s
  value = _read_attribute(attr_name)
  !value.nil? && !(value.respond_to?(:empty?) && value.empty?)
end
attributes() click to toggle source

Returns a hash of all the attributes with their names as keys and the values of the attributes as values.

class Person < ActiveEntity::Base
end

person = Person.create(name: 'Francesco', age: 22)
person.attributes
# => {"id"=>3, "created_at"=>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:53:04, "updated_at"=>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:53:04, "name"=>"Francesco", "age"=>22}
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 218
def attributes
  @attributes.to_hash
end
has_attribute?(attr_name) click to toggle source

Returns true if the given attribute is in the attributes hash, otherwise false.

class Person < ActiveEntity::Base
  alias_attribute :new_name, :name
end

person = Person.new
person.has_attribute?(:name)     # => true
person.has_attribute?(:new_name) # => true
person.has_attribute?('age')     # => true
person.has_attribute?(:nothing)  # => false
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 188
def has_attribute?(attr_name)
  attr_name = attr_name.to_s
  attr_name = self.class.attribute_aliases[attr_name] || attr_name
  @attributes.key?(attr_name)
end

Private Instance Methods

attribute_method?(attr_name) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 302
def attribute_method?(attr_name)
  # We check defined? because Syck calls respond_to? before actually calling initialize.
  defined?(@attributes) && @attributes.key?(attr_name)
end
format_for_inspect(value) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 307
def format_for_inspect(value)
  if value.is_a?(String) && value.length > 50
    "#{value[0, 50]}...".inspect
  elsif value.is_a?(Date) || value.is_a?(Time)
    %("#{value.to_s(:db)}")
  else
    value.inspect
  end
end
pk_attribute?(name) click to toggle source
# File lib/active_entity/attribute_methods.rb, line 317
def pk_attribute?(name)
  name == @primary_key
end