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CheeseFry
CheeseFry

Reputation: 1319

Conditional serialization based off of value of attribute

I am trying to limit which children get displayed in the json response at the serializer level. If a currency is marked as 'active' the currency should be included in the payload for Merchant. If the currency is 'inactive' the GET on merchant should not be included.

rails, 4.2.5 active_model_serializers, ~>0.10.0.rc3

Serializers

class MerchantSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  attributes :id, :merchant_name, :merchant_type, :currencies
  has_many :merchant_currency_maps
end

class MerchantCurrencyMapSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  attributes :id, :currency, :b4flight_id, :aht_account_id, :created_at, :updated_at, :guess_merchant 
end

What I've tried

I've tried making include_currency_maps methods linkbut to no avail.
And creating custom attributes shown here. But I am still struggling to grasp how this can/should be done.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 825

Answers (2)

drhenner
drhenner

Reputation: 2230

Using this will allow rails to cache your data better I believe:

has_many :merchant_currency_maps, -> { where(active: true) }

Or do this

has_many :active_merchant_currency_maps,   -> { where(active: true) }
has_many :merchant_currency_maps 
has_many :inactive_merchant_currency_maps, -> { where(active: false) }

Each would be cached separately. The worry with this is each of the 3 arrays have different objects and can become out of sync unless you have rails configured to sync them up.

Upvotes: 0

jmschles
jmschles

Reputation: 274

If I'm understanding your question correctly, you want has_many :merchant_currency_maps to only include currency maps that are active, right? You could try an override in your MerchantSerializer:

def merchant_currency_maps
  object.merchant_currency_maps.where(active: true)
end

Upvotes: 1

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