Allow validations to use values from custom readers [#2936 state:resolved]

Signed-off-by: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/activemodel/lib/active_model/errors.rb b/activemodel/lib/active_model/errors.rb
index a4cf700231..a47d89ac0e 100644
--- a/activemodel/lib/active_model/errors.rb
+++ b/activemodel/lib/active_model/errors.rb
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ module ActiveModel
     # Will add an error message to each of the attributes in +attributes+ that is empty.
     def add_on_empty(attributes, custom_message = nil)
       [attributes].flatten.each do |attribute|
-        value = @base.send(attribute)
+        value = @base.instance_eval { read_attribute_for_validation(attribute) }
         is_empty = value.respond_to?(:empty?) ? value.empty? : false
         add(attribute, :empty, :default => custom_message) unless !value.nil? && !is_empty
       end
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ module ActiveModel
     # Will add an error message to each of the attributes in +attributes+ that is blank (using Object#blank?).
     def add_on_blank(attributes, custom_message = nil)
       [attributes].flatten.each do |attribute|
-        value = @base.send(attribute)
+        value = @base.instance_eval { read_attribute_for_validation(attribute) }
         add(attribute, :blank, :default => custom_message) if value.blank?
       end
     end
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ module ActiveModel
       defaults = defaults.compact.flatten << :"messages.#{message}"
 
       key = defaults.shift
-      value = @base.send(attribute)
+      value = @base.instance_eval { read_attribute_for_validation(attribute) }
 
       options = { :default => defaults,
         :model => @base.class.name.humanize,
diff --git a/activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb b/activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb
index 54a869396d..0fca96e5cc 100644
--- a/activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb
+++ b/activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ module ActiveModel
         # Declare the validation.
         send(validation_method(options[:on]), options) do |record|
           attrs.each do |attr|
-            value = record.send(attr)
+            value = record.instance_eval { read_attribute_for_validation(attr) }
             next if (value.nil? && options[:allow_nil]) || (value.blank? && options[:allow_blank])
             yield record, attr, value
           end
@@ -95,6 +95,28 @@ module ActiveModel
     def invalid?
       !valid?
     end
+    
+    protected
+      # Hook method defining how an attribute value should be retieved. By default this is assumed
+      # to be an instance named after the attribute. Override this method in subclasses should you
+      # need to retrieve the value for a given attribute differently e.g.
+      #   class MyClass
+      #     include ActiveModel::Validations
+      #
+      #     def initialize(data = {})
+      #       @data = data
+      #     end
+      #     
+      #     private
+      #     
+      #     def read_attribute_for_validation(key)
+      #       @data[key]
+      #     end
+      #   end
+      #
+      def read_attribute_for_validation(key)
+        send(key)
+      end
   end
 end