require 'active_support/concern'
module ActiveRecord
module Inheritance
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
included do
# Determine whether to store the full constant name including namespace when using STI
class_attribute :store_full_sti_class
self.store_full_sti_class = true
end
module ClassMethods
# True if this isn't a concrete subclass needing a STI type condition.
def descends_from_active_record?
sup = active_record_super
if sup.abstract_class?
sup.descends_from_active_record?
else
sup == Base || !columns_hash.include?(inheritance_column)
end
end
def finder_needs_type_condition? #:nodoc:
# This is like this because benchmarking justifies the strange :false stuff
:true == (@finder_needs_type_condition ||= descends_from_active_record? ? :false : :true)
end
def symbolized_base_class
@symbolized_base_class ||= base_class.to_s.to_sym
end
def symbolized_sti_name
@symbolized_sti_name ||= sti_name.present? ? sti_name.to_sym : symbolized_base_class
end
# Returns the base AR subclass that this class descends from. If A
# extends AR::Base, A.base_class will return A. If B descends from A
# through some arbitrarily deep hierarchy, B.base_class will return A.
#
# If B < A and C < B and if A is an abstract_class then both B.base_class
# and C.base_class would return B as the answer since A is an abstract_class.
def base_class
class_of_active_record_descendant(self)
end
# Set this to true if this is an abstract class (see abstract_class?).
attr_accessor :abstract_class
# Returns whether this class is an abstract class or not.
def abstract_class?
defined?(@abstract_class) && @abstract_class == true
end
def sti_name
store_full_sti_class ? name : name.demodulize
end
# Finder methods must instantiate through this method to work with the
# single-table inheritance model that makes it possible to create
# objects of different types from the same table.
def instantiate(record)
sti_class = find_sti_class(record[inheritance_column])
record_id = sti_class.primary_key && record[sti_class.primary_key]
if ActiveRecord::IdentityMap.enabled? && record_id
if (column = sti_class.columns_hash[sti_class.primary_key]) && column.number?
record_id = record_id.to_i
end
if instance = IdentityMap.get(sti_class, record_id)
instance.reinit_with('attributes' => record)
else
instance = sti_class.allocate.init_with('attributes' => record)
IdentityMap.add(instance)
end
else
instance = sti_class.allocate.init_with('attributes' => record)
end
instance
end
# If this class includes ActiveRecord::Model then it won't have a
# superclass. So this provides a way to get to the 'root' (ActiveRecord::Base),
# through inheritance hierarchy, ending in Base, whether or not that is
# actually an ancestor of the class.
#
# Mainly for internal use.
def active_record_super #:nodoc:
if self == Base || superclass && superclass < Model::Tag
superclass
else
Base
end
end
protected
# Returns the class descending directly from ActiveRecord::Base or an
# abstract class, if any, in the inheritance hierarchy.
def class_of_active_record_descendant(klass)
unless klass < Model::Tag
raise ActiveRecordError, "#{name} doesn't belong in a hierarchy descending from ActiveRecord"
end
sup = klass.active_record_super
if klass == Base || sup == Base || sup.abstract_class?
klass
else
class_of_active_record_descendant(sup)
end
end
# Returns the class type of the record using the current module as a prefix. So descendants of
# MyApp::Business::Account would appear as MyApp::Business::AccountSubclass.
def compute_type(type_name)
if type_name.match(/^::/)
# If the type is prefixed with a scope operator then we assume that
# the type_name is an absolute reference.
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.constantize(type_name)
else
# Build a list of candidates to search for
candidates = []
name.scan(/::|$/) { candidates.unshift "#{$`}::#{type_name}" }
candidates << type_name
candidates.each do |candidate|
begin
constant = ActiveSupport::Dependencies.constantize(candidate)
return constant if candidate == constant.to_s
rescue NameError => e
# We don't want to swallow NoMethodError < NameError errors
raise e unless e.instance_of?(NameError)
end
end
raise NameError, "uninitialized constant #{candidates.first}"
end
end
private
def find_sti_class(type_name)
if type_name.blank? || !columns_hash.include?(inheritance_column)
self
else
begin
if store_full_sti_class
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.constantize(type_name)
else
compute_type(type_name)
end
rescue NameError
raise SubclassNotFound,
"The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: '#{type_name}'. " +
"This error is raised because the column '#{inheritance_column}' is reserved for storing the class in case of inheritance. " +
"Please rename this column if you didn't intend it to be used for storing the inheritance class " +
"or overwrite #{name}.inheritance_column to use another column for that information."
end
end
end
def type_condition(table = arel_table)
sti_column = table[inheritance_column.to_sym]
sti_names = ([self] + descendants).map { |model| model.sti_name }
sti_column.in(sti_names)
end
end
private
# Sets the attribute used for single table inheritance to this class name if this is not the
# ActiveRecord::Base descendant.
# Considering the hierarchy Reply < Message < ActiveRecord::Base, this makes it possible to
# do Reply.new without having to set Reply[Reply.inheritance_column] = "Reply" yourself.
# No such attribute would be set for objects of the Message class in that example.
def ensure_proper_type
klass = self.class
if klass.finder_needs_type_condition?
write_attribute(klass.inheritance_column, klass.sti_name)
end
end
end
end