LazyAsJson

A simple and concise way to use as_json with “only”, “except” and other options without using them literally.

Instead of using this -

User.as_json(only: [:id, :first_name, profiles: [:company, :location]])

You can perhaps use this -

User.as_json(only_keys: ‘_,first_name,profiles(p),p.company,p.location’)

As simple as this.

You can control what your API response should include through a flexible parameter string.

i.e. - “/api/v1/users/me?keys=,last_name,profiles(p),p.company,p.location”

This parameter string could dig through the nested objects and their nesting too. Just to reduce the API response size significantly, you can use this parameter control over wherever it is used. However it might seems quite trivial but frankly speaking it saves lot in response data hence faster loading time at client side.

Moreover as it uses Hash.new and constructs attribute on runtime, you can throttle calling from the expensive method by using this parameter string.

Symbol	Description
_	It represents id as short cut
nested_objects(< name >)	It represents the alias for the nested object (it works with single or multiple values)
< alias_name >.< key >	It represents the specific attribute from the nested object
< alias_name >.< key >(< alias >)	It represents aliasing a nested object from a nested object and this list could go on and on.

Example Usages

User.as_json(only_keys: '_,first_name,email,profiles(p),p._,p.company,p.address(pa),pa.city,pa.country(pac),pac.iso_code')

Here, "_" represents user_instance.id, profiles represents user_instance.profiles, p.address(pa) represents user_instance.profiles[].address and finally pa.country(pac) represents user_instance.profiles[].address.country and so on.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lazy_as_json'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install lazy_as_json

Usage

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Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing