On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Ben Lavender <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found myself today trying to do this, and failing:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'dm-core'
>
> DataMapper.setup(:default, "sqlite3://#{Dir.pwd}/page.sqlite3")
>
> class Page
> include DataMapper::Resource
>
> property :id, Serial # primary serial key
> property :body, String # cannot be null
> property :derived1, String
>
> after :save, :after_save
>
> def after_save
> if attribute_get(:derived1).nil?
> attribute_set(:derived1,body.to_s + ".db")
> self.save
> end
> end
> end
> DataMapper.auto_migrate!
> p = Page.new({ :body => "test123" })
> p.save
> p1 = Page.get(1)
> puts p.inspect # derived1 => body + .db
> puts p1.inspect # derived1 => nil
>
> Initially, I was trying to make a field be a default of (item.id).to_s
> + "something", but this doesn't work with :default since attribute_get
> isn't available to the class methods defining properties. So I came
> up with something equivalent to this, and fought it for a while.
>
> I'm working around this now just fine--it was just a naive thing for
> the first round of specs--but why does self.save not work in
> after_save here? If it's failing on purpose (which I can imagine,
> given the risk of infinite recursion with poor programming), wouldn't
> it be better to raise an exception than to silently, magically fail?
> Perhaps at least not return true?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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Instead of `after :save` you could try using a lambda or Proc with
default and doing something like
property :derived1,String, :default => Proc.new { |r,l| "#{r.body}.db"}
If you expect body to change after new is called, you could put it in
a `before :save` call instead.
before :save do
self.derived1 = "#{r.body}.db"
end
or
before :save do
self.derived1 = "#{r.body}.db" unless derived1
end
if you don't want to clobber earlier values.
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http://blog.baroquebobcat.com/
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