Module: DatastaxRails::Inheritance::ClassMethods

Defined in:
lib/datastax_rails/inheritance.rb

Overview

:nodoc:

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Attribute Details

#abstract_class ⇒ Object

Set this to true if this is an abstract class (see abstract_class?). If you are using inheritance with DatastaxRails and don’t want child classes to utilize the implied STI table name of the parent class, this will need to be true. For example, given the following:

class SuperClass < DatastaxRails::Base
  self.abstract_class = true
end
class Child < SuperClass
  self.column_family = 'the_table_i_really_want'
end



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# File 'lib/datastax_rails/inheritance.rb', line 56

def abstract_class
  @abstract_class
end

Instance Method Details

#abstract_class? ⇒ Boolean

Returns whether this class is an abstract class or not.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/datastax_rails/inheritance.rb', line 59

def abstract_class?
  defined?(@abstract_class) && @abstract_class == true
end

#base_class ⇒ Object

Returns the class descending directly from DatastaxRails::Base, or an abstract class, if any, in the inheritance hierarchy.

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.



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# File 'lib/datastax_rails/inheritance.rb', line 33

def base_class
  unless self < Base
    fail DatastaxRailsError, "#{name} doesn't belong in a hierarchy descending from DatastaxRails"
  end

  if superclass == Base || superclass.abstract_class?
    self
  else
    superclass.base_class
  end
end

#new(*args, &block) ⇒ Object

Determines if one of the attributes passed in is the inheritance column, and if the inheritance column is attr accessible, it initializes an instance of the given subclass instead of the base class.



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# File 'lib/datastax_rails/inheritance.rb', line 12

def new(*args, &block)
  if abstract_class? || self == Base
    fail NotImplementedError, "#{self} is an abstract class and can not be instantiated."
  end
  # if (attrs = args.first).is_a?(Hash)
  # if subclass = subclass_from_attrs(attrs)
  # return subclass.new(*args, &block)
  # end
  # end
  # Delegate to the original .new
  super
end