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-rw-r--r--activemodel/CHANGELOG.md2
-rw-r--r--activemodel/README.rdoc10
-rw-r--r--activemodel/lib/active_model/lint.rb40
-rw-r--r--activemodel/test/cases/lint_test.rb6
4 files changed, 22 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/activemodel/CHANGELOG.md b/activemodel/CHANGELOG.md
index a7a40ee03d..258c3681f6 100644
--- a/activemodel/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activemodel/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+* Trim down Active Model API by removing `valid?` and `errors.full_messages` *José Valim*
+
## Rails 3.2.0 (January 20, 2012) ##
* Deprecated `define_attr_method` in `ActiveModel::AttributeMethods`, because this only existed to
diff --git a/activemodel/README.rdoc b/activemodel/README.rdoc
index 9208145507..6f737d0d8b 100644
--- a/activemodel/README.rdoc
+++ b/activemodel/README.rdoc
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ Prior to Rails 3.0, if a plugin or gem developer wanted to have an object
interact with Action Pack helpers, it was required to either copy chunks of
code from Rails, or monkey patch entire helpers to make them handle objects
that did not exactly conform to the Active Record interface. This would result
-in code duplication and fragile applications that broke on upgrades.
+in code duplication and fragile applications that broke on upgrades. Active
+Model solves this by defining an explicit API. You can read more about the
+API in ActiveModel::Lint::Tests.
-Active Model solves this. You can include functionality from the following
-modules:
+Active Model also provides the following functionality to have ORM-like
+behavior out of the box:
* Add attribute magic to objects
@@ -182,7 +184,7 @@ modules:
p.valid? # => true
{Learn more}[link:classes/ActiveModel/Validator.html]
-
+
== Download and installation
diff --git a/activemodel/lib/active_model/lint.rb b/activemodel/lib/active_model/lint.rb
index bfe7ea1869..49ea894150 100644
--- a/activemodel/lib/active_model/lint.rb
+++ b/activemodel/lib/active_model/lint.rb
@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ module ActiveModel
# == Active Model Lint Tests
#
# You can test whether an object is compliant with the Active Model API by
- # including <tt>ActiveModel::Lint::Tests</tt> in your TestCase. It will include
- # tests that tell you whether your object is fully compliant, or if not,
- # which aspects of the API are not implemented.
+ # including <tt>ActiveModel::Lint::Tests</tt> in your TestCase. It will
+ # include tests that tell you whether your object is fully compliant,
+ # or if not, which aspects of the API are not implemented.
+ #
+ # Note an object is not required to implement all APIs in order to work
+ # with Action Pack. This module only intends to provide guidance in case
+ # you want all features out of the box.
#
# These tests do not attempt to determine the semantic correctness of the
# returned values. For instance, you could implement valid? to always
@@ -19,7 +23,8 @@ module ActiveModel
# == Responds to <tt>to_key</tt>
#
# Returns an Enumerable of all (primary) key attributes
- # or nil if model.persisted? is false
+ # or nil if model.persisted? is false. This is used by
+ # dom_id to generate unique ids for the object.
def test_to_key
assert model.respond_to?(:to_key), "The model should respond to to_key"
def model.persisted?() false end
@@ -53,15 +58,6 @@ module ActiveModel
assert_kind_of String, model.to_partial_path
end
- # == Responds to <tt>valid?</tt>
- #
- # Returns a boolean that specifies whether the object is in a valid or invalid
- # state.
- def test_valid?
- assert model.respond_to?(:valid?), "The model should respond to valid?"
- assert_boolean model.valid?, "valid?"
- end
-
# == Responds to <tt>persisted?</tt>
#
# Returns a boolean that specifies whether the object has been persisted yet.
@@ -90,25 +86,15 @@ module ActiveModel
# == Errors Testing
#
- # Returns an object that has :[] and :full_messages defined on it. See below
- # for more details.
- #
- # Returns an Array of Strings that are the errors for the attribute in
- # question. If localization is used, the Strings should be localized
- # for the current locale. If no error is present, this method should
- # return an empty Array.
+ # Returns an object that implements [](attribute) defined which returns an
+ # Array of Strings that are the errors for the attribute in question.
+ # If localization is used, the Strings should be localized for the current
+ # locale. If no error is present, this method should return an empty Array.
def test_errors_aref
assert model.respond_to?(:errors), "The model should respond to errors"
assert model.errors[:hello].is_a?(Array), "errors#[] should return an Array"
end
- # Returns an Array of all error messages for the object. Each message
- # should contain information about the field, if applicable.
- def test_errors_full_messages
- assert model.respond_to?(:errors), "The model should respond to errors"
- assert model.errors.full_messages.is_a?(Array), "errors#full_messages should return an Array"
- end
-
private
def model
assert @model.respond_to?(:to_model), "The object should respond_to to_model"
diff --git a/activemodel/test/cases/lint_test.rb b/activemodel/test/cases/lint_test.rb
index 68372160cd..8faf93c056 100644
--- a/activemodel/test/cases/lint_test.rb
+++ b/activemodel/test/cases/lint_test.rb
@@ -7,14 +7,10 @@ class LintTest < ActiveModel::TestCase
extend ActiveModel::Naming
include ActiveModel::Conversion
- def valid?() true end
def persisted?() false end
def errors
- obj = Object.new
- def obj.[](key) [] end
- def obj.full_messages() [] end
- obj
+ Hash.new([])
end
end