AutosaveAssociation
is a module that takes care of
automatically saving associated records when their parent is saved. In
addition to saving, it also destroys any associated records that were
marked for destruction. (See mark_for_destruction
and
marked_for_destruction?
).
Saving of the parent, its associations, and the destruction of marked associations, all happen inside a transaction. This should never leave the database in an inconsistent state.
If validations for any of the associations fail, their error messages will be applied to the parent.
Note that it also means that associations marked for destruction won't be destroyed directly. They will however still be marked for destruction.
Note that :autosave => false
is not same as not declaring
:autosave
. When the :autosave
option is not
present new associations are saved.
Children records are validated unless :validate
is
false
.
Association with autosave option defines several callbacks on your model (before_save, after_create, after_update). Please note that callbacks are executed in the order they were defined in model. You should avoid modyfing the association content, before autosave callbacks are executed. Placing your callbacks after associations is usually a good practice.
class Post has_one :author, :autosave => true end
Saving changes to the parent and its associated model can now be performed automatically and atomically:
post = Post.find(1) post.title # => "The current global position of migrating ducks" post.author.name # => "alloy" post.title = "On the migration of ducks" post.author.name = "Eloy Duran" post.save post.reload post.title # => "On the migration of ducks" post.author.name # => "Eloy Duran"
Destroying an associated model, as part of the parent's save action, is as simple as marking it for destruction:
post.author.mark_for_destruction post.author.marked_for_destruction? # => true
Note that the model is not yet removed from the database:
id = post.author.id Author.find_by_id(id).nil? # => false post.save post.reload.author # => nil
Now it is removed from the database:
Author.find_by_id(id).nil? # => true
When :autosave
is not declared new children are saved when
their parent is saved:
class Post has_many :comments # :autosave option is no declared end post = Post.new(:title => 'ruby rocks') post.comments.build(:body => 'hello world') post.save # => saves both post and comment post = Post.create(:title => 'ruby rocks') post.comments.build(:body => 'hello world') post.save # => saves both post and comment post = Post.create(:title => 'ruby rocks') post.comments.create(:body => 'hello world') post.save # => saves both post and comment
When :autosave
is true all children is saved, no matter
whether they are new records:
class Post has_many :comments, :autosave => true end post = Post.create(:title => 'ruby rocks') post.comments.create(:body => 'hello world') post.comments[0].body = 'hi everyone' post.save # => saves both post and comment, with 'hi everyone' as body
Destroying one of the associated models as part of the parent's save action is as simple as marking it for destruction:
post.comments.last.mark_for_destruction post.comments.last.marked_for_destruction? # => true post.comments.length # => 2
Note that the model is not yet removed from the database:
id = post.comments.last.id Comment.find_by_id(id).nil? # => false post.save post.reload.comments.length # => 1
Now it is removed from the database:
Comment.find_by_id(id).nil? # => true
Returns whether or not this record has been changed in any way (including whether any of its nested autosave associations are likewise changed)
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 247 def changed_for_autosave? new_record? || changed? || marked_for_destruction? || nested_records_changed_for_autosave? end
Marks this record to be destroyed as part of the parents save transaction.
This does not actually destroy the record instantly, rather child
record will be destroyed when parent.save
is called.
Only useful if the :autosave
option on the parent is enabled
for this associated model.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 234 def mark_for_destruction @marked_for_destruction = true end
Returns whether or not this record will be destroyed as part of the parents save transaction.
Only useful if the :autosave
option on the parent is enabled
for this associated model.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 241 def marked_for_destruction? @marked_for_destruction end
Reloads the attributes of the object as usual and clears
marked_for_destruction
flag.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 224 def reload(options = nil) @marked_for_destruction = false super end
Returns the record for an association collection that should be validated
or saved. If autosave
is false
only new records
will be returned, unless the parent is/was a new record itself.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 256 def associated_records_to_validate_or_save(association, new_record, autosave) if new_record association && association.target elsif autosave association.target.find_all { |record| record.changed_for_autosave? } else association.target.find_all { |record| record.new_record? } end end
Returns whether or not the association is valid and applies any errors to
the parent, self
, if it wasn't. Skips any
:autosave
enabled records if they're
marked_for_destruction? or destroyed.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 297 def association_valid?(reflection, record) return true if record.destroyed? || record.marked_for_destruction? unless valid = record.valid? if reflection.options[:autosave] record.errors.each do |attribute, message| attribute = "#{reflection.name}.#{attribute}" errors[attribute] << message errors[attribute].uniq! end else errors.add(reflection.name) end end valid end
Is used as a before_save callback to check while saving a collection association whether or not the parent was a new record before saving.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 316 def before_save_collection_association @new_record_before_save = new_record? true end
go through nested autosave associations that are loaded in memory (without loading any new ones), and return true if is changed for autosave
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 268 def nested_records_changed_for_autosave? self.class.reflect_on_all_autosave_associations.any? do |reflection| association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) association && Array.wrap(association.target).any? { |a| a.changed_for_autosave? } end end
Saves the associated record if it's new or :autosave
is
enabled.
In addition, it will destroy the association if it was marked for destruction.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 406 def save_belongs_to_association(reflection) association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) record = association && association.load_target if record && !record.destroyed? autosave = reflection.options[:autosave] if autosave && record.marked_for_destruction? record.destroy elsif autosave != false saved = record.save(:validate => !autosave) if record.new_record? || (autosave && record.changed_for_autosave?) if association.updated? association_id = record.send(reflection.options[:primary_key] || :id) self[reflection.foreign_key] = association_id association.loaded! end saved if autosave end end end
Saves any new associated records, or all loaded autosave associations if
:autosave
is enabled on the association.
In addition, it destroys all children that were marked for destruction with mark_for_destruction.
This all happens inside a transaction, if the Transactions module is included into ActiveRecord::Base after the AutosaveAssociation module, which it does by default.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 329 def save_collection_association(reflection) if association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) autosave = reflection.options[:autosave] if records = associated_records_to_validate_or_save(association, @new_record_before_save, autosave) begin records_to_destroy = [] records.each do |record| next if record.destroyed? saved = true if autosave && record.marked_for_destruction? records_to_destroy << record elsif autosave != false && (@new_record_before_save || record.new_record?) if autosave saved = association.insert_record(record, false) else association.insert_record(record) unless reflection.nested? end elsif autosave saved = record.save(:validate => false) end raise ActiveRecord::Rollback unless saved end records_to_destroy.each do |record| association.proxy.destroy(record) end rescue records.each {|x| IdentityMap.remove(x) } if IdentityMap.enabled? raise end end # reconstruct the scope now that we know the owner's id association.send(:reset_scope) if association.respond_to?(:reset_scope) end end
Saves the associated record if it's new or :autosave
is
enabled on the association.
In addition, it will destroy the association if it was marked for destruction with mark_for_destruction.
This all happens inside a transaction, if the Transactions module is included into ActiveRecord::Base after the AutosaveAssociation module, which it does by default.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 380 def save_has_one_association(reflection) association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) record = association && association.load_target if record && !record.destroyed? autosave = reflection.options[:autosave] if autosave && record.marked_for_destruction? record.destroy else key = reflection.options[:primary_key] ? send(reflection.options[:primary_key]) : id if autosave != false && (new_record? || record.new_record? || record[reflection.foreign_key] != key || autosave) unless reflection.through_reflection record[reflection.foreign_key] = key end saved = record.save(:validate => !autosave) raise ActiveRecord::Rollback if !saved && autosave saved end end end end
Validate the associated records if :validate
or
:autosave
is turned on for the association specified by
reflection
.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 286 def validate_collection_association(reflection) if association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) if records = associated_records_to_validate_or_save(association, new_record?, reflection.options[:autosave]) records.each { |record| association_valid?(reflection, record) } end end end
Validate the association if :validate
or
:autosave
is turned on for the association.
# File lib/active_record/autosave_association.rb, line 277 def validate_single_association(reflection) association = association_instance_get(reflection.name) record = association && association.reader association_valid?(reflection, record) if record end