aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--activerecord/CHANGELOG2
-rwxr-xr-xactiverecord/lib/active_record/base.rb4
-rwxr-xr-xactiverecord/test/base_test.rb21
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 7e90571397..b17af37d4b 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Allow nil serialized attributes with a set class constraint. #7293 [sandofsky]
+
* Oracle: support binary fixtures. #7987 [Michael Schoen]
* Fixtures: pull fixture insertion into the database adapters. #7987 [Michael Schoen]
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
index 3ba1cb26d1..36775d74b5 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# Specifies that the attribute by the name of +attr_name+ should be serialized before saving to the database and unserialized
# after loading from the database. The serialization is done through YAML. If +class_name+ is specified, the serialized
- # object must be of that class on retrieval or +SerializationTypeMismatch+ will be raised.
+ # object must be of that class on retrieval, or nil. Otherwise, +SerializationTypeMismatch+ will be raised.
def serialize(attr_name, class_name = Object)
serialized_attributes[attr_name.to_s] = class_name
end
@@ -2110,7 +2110,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
def unserialize_attribute(attr_name)
unserialized_object = object_from_yaml(@attributes[attr_name])
- if unserialized_object.is_a?(self.class.serialized_attributes[attr_name])
+ if unserialized_object.is_a?(self.class.serialized_attributes[attr_name]) || unserialized_object.nil?
@attributes[attr_name] = unserialized_object
else
raise SerializationTypeMismatch,
diff --git a/activerecord/test/base_test.rb b/activerecord/test/base_test.rb
index 50e7ba9da3..3171e75bac 100755
--- a/activerecord/test/base_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/base_test.rb
@@ -1154,16 +1154,29 @@ class BasicsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
assert_equal(myobj, topic.content)
end
- def test_serialized_attribute_with_class_constraint
+ def test_nil_serialized_attribute_with_class_constraint
myobj = MyObject.new('value1', 'value2')
- topic = Topic.create("content" => myobj)
- Topic.serialize(:content, Hash)
+ topic = Topic.new
+ assert_nil topic.content
+ end
+ def test_should_raise_exception_on_serialized_attribute_with_type_mismatch
+ myobj = MyObject.new('value1', 'value2')
+ topic = Topic.new(:content => myobj)
+ assert topic.save
+ Topic.serialize(:content, Hash)
assert_raise(ActiveRecord::SerializationTypeMismatch) { Topic.find(topic.id).content }
+ ensure
+ Topic.serialize(:content)
+ end
+ def test_serialized_attribute_with_class_constraint
settings = { "color" => "blue" }
- Topic.find(topic.id).update_attribute("content", settings)
+ Topic.serialize(:content, Hash)
+ topic = Topic.new(:content => settings)
+ assert topic.save
assert_equal(settings, Topic.find(topic.id).content)
+ ensure
Topic.serialize(:content)
end