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 config_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? elsif self == Base false else [Base, Model].include?(sup) || !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 # For internal use. # # If this class includes ActiveRecord::Model then it won't have a # superclass. So this provides a way to get to the 'root' (ActiveRecord::Model). def active_record_super #:nodoc: superclass < Model ? superclass : Model 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 raise ActiveRecordError, "#{name} doesn't belong in a hierarchy descending from ActiveRecord" end sup = klass.active_record_super if [Base, Model].include?(klass) || [Base, Model].include?(sup) || 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