I have an association of my model Banner with Images, I need to bring all the images but only the field file, in file I have a hash in which I just want to get the url
I have this code:
Banner.find_by(event_id: #event.id).to_json(:include => [{:images => {:only => [:file]}}])
but this gets me this:
{
"id": 2,
"created_at": "2019-04-24T14:59:08.000-05:00",
"updated_at": "2019-04-24T14:59:08.000-05:00",
"event_id": 3,
"name": "ccccccccccccccccccccccssssss",
"images": [
{
"file": {
"url": "/uploads/image/file/300aecf6-b3c7-4b15-94a1-45c530efc4c4.png"
}
}
]
}
I want something like this:
{
"id": 2,
"created_at": "2019-04-24T14:59:08.000-05:00",
"updated_at": "2019-04-24T14:59:08.000-05:00",
"event_id": 3,
"name": "ccccccccccccccccccccccssssss",
"images": [
"/uploads/image/file/300aecf6-b3c7-4b15-94a1-45c530efc4c4.png"
]
}
How could I do this? Any suggestions?
Sometimes it's best to break things up into smaller pieces...
# create the query to get all the objects to prevent n+1 queries
banners = Banner.includes(images: :file)
# get the banner you want to serialize
banner = banners.find_by(event_id: #event.id)
# get all the urls for the images as an array
image_urls = banner.images.collect {|i| i.file.url }
# create the json object
json = banner.to_json.merge(images: image_urls)
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I have a json object. It has multiple fields "passthrough_fields" which is unnecessary for me and I want to remove them. Is there a way to get all those attributes filtered out?
JSON:
{
"type": "playable_item",
"id": "p06s0lq7",
"urn": "urn:bbc:radio:episode:p06s0mk3",
"network": {
"id": "bbc_radio_five_live",
"key": "5live",
"short_title": "Radio 5 live",
"logo_url": "https://sounds.files.bbci.co.uk/v2/networks/bbc_radio_five_live/{type}_{size}.{format}",
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"titles": {
"primary": "Replay",
"secondary": "Bill Shankly",
"tertiary": null,
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"synopses": {
"short": "Bill Shankly with Sue MacGregor in 1979 - five years after he resigned as Liverpool boss.",
"medium": null,
"long": "Bill Shankly in conversation with Sue MacGregor in 1979, five years after he resigned as Liverpool manager.",
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"image_url": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/{recipe}/p06qbz1x.jpg",
"duration": {
"value": 1774,
"label": "29 mins",
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"progress": null,
"container": {
"type": "series",
"id": "p06qbzmj",
"urn": "urn:bbc:radio:series:p06qbzmj",
"title": "Replay",
"synopses": {
"short": "Colin Murray unearths classic sports commentaries and interviews from the BBC archives.",
"medium": "Colin Murray looks back at 90 years of sport on the BBC by unearthing classic commentaries and interviews from the BBC archives.",
"long": null,
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"activities": [],
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"availability": {
"from": "2018-11-16T16:18:54Z",
"to": null,
"label": "Available for over a year",
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"guidance": {
"competition_warning": false,
"warnings": null,
"passthrough_fields": {}
},
"activities": [],
"uris": [
{
"type": "latest",
"label": "Latest",
"uri": "/v2/programmes/playable?container=p06qbzmj&sort=sequential&type=episode",
"passthrough_fields": {}
}
],
"passthrough_fields": {}
}
Is there a way I can remove all those fields and store the updated json in a new variable?
You can do this recursively to tackle nested occurances of passthrough_fields, whether they're found in an array or a sub hash. Inline comments to explain things a little as it goes:
hash = JSON.parse(input) # convert the JSON to a hash
def remove_recursively(hash, *to_remove)
hash.each do |key, val|
hash.except!(*to_remove) # the heavy lifting: remove all keys that match `to_remove`
remove_recursively(val, *to_remove) if val.is_a? Hash # if a nested hash, run this method on it
if val.is_a? Array # if a nested array, loop through this checking for hashes to run this method on
val.each { |el| remove_recursively(el, *to_remove) if el.is_a? Hash }
end
end
end
remove_recursively(hash, 'passthrough_fields')
To demonstrate, with a simplified example:
hash = {
"test" => { "passthrough_fields" => [1, 2, 3], "wow" => '123' },
"passthrough_fields" => [4, 5, 6],
"array_values" => [{ "to_stay" => "I am", "passthrough_fields" => [7, 8, 9]}]
}
remove_recursively(hash, 'passthrough_fields')
#=> {"test"=>{"wow"=>"123"}, "array_values"=>[{"to_stay"=>"I am"}]}
remove_recursively(hash, 'passthrough_fields', 'wow', 'to_stay')
#=> {"test"=>{}, "array_values"=>[{}]}
This will tackle any arrays, and will dig for nested hashes however deep it needs to go.
It takes any number of fields to remove, in this case a single 'passthrough_fields'.
Hope this helps, let me know how you get on.
I think that the easiest solution would be to:
convert JSON into hash (JSON.parse(input))
use this answer to extend the functionality of Hash (save it in config/initializers/except_nested.rb)
on the hash from 1st step, call:
without_passthrough = your_hash.except_nested('passthrough_fields')
covert hash to JSON (without_passthrough.to_json)
Please keep in mind that it will work for passthrough_fields that is nested directly in hashes. In your JSON, you have the following part:
"uris" => [
{
"type"=>"latest",
"label"=>"Latest",
"uri"=>"/v2/programmes/playable?container=p06qbzmj&sort=sequential&type=episode",
"passthrough_fields"=>{}
}
]
In this case, the passthrough_fields will not be removed. You have to find a more sophisticated solution :)
You can do something like this:
def nested_except(hash, except_key)
sanitized_hash = {}
hash.each do |key, value|
next if key == except_key
sanitized_hash[key] = value.is_a?(Hash) ? nested_except(value, except_key) : value
end
sanitized_hash
end
json = JSON.parse(json_string)
sanitized = nested_except(json, 'passthrough_fields')
See example:
json = { :a => 1, :b => 2, :c => { :a => 1, :b => { :a => 1 } } }
nested_except(json, :a)
# => {:b=>2, :c=>{:b=>{}}}
This helper can easily be converted to support multiple keys to except, simply by except_keys = Array.wrap(except_key) and next if except_keys.include?(key)
I have a ruby (2.4.0p0) rails (5.0.2) controller from which I wish to return a json result containing a list of Thing objects as well as some high level info (such as next and previous from Kaminari paging).
Consider a Thing with an association to Owner. Thing has a owner_id attribute.
For #things = Thing.page(1).per(2) I will be able to use
render json: #things
and get;
[
{ "id": 1, "owner_id": 1, "name": "thing1" },
{ "id": 2, "owner_id": 1, "name": "thing2" }
]
Good. If I then create a serializer called ThingSerializer.rb and define owner such that it adds "owner":"CatInHat" instead of "owner_id":1
This works as well;
[
{ "id": 1, "owner": "CatInHat", "name": "thing1" },
{ "id": 2, "owner": "CatInHat", "name": "thing2" }
]
This is good, but, my problem comes when I want to add higher level data and label the list as "results" such as when I try;
render json: { next:"some_url_link",previous:"some_other_url_link", results: #bags}
I'd like to get;
{ "next":some_url_link,
"prev":some_other_url_link,
"results":[ { "id": 1, "owner": "CatInHat", "name": "thing1" }, { "id": 2, "owner": "CatInHat", "name": "thing2" } ]
}
What I get is nearly the above but with "owner_id":1 instead of "owner":"CatInHat" - my serializer does not seem to be used when I label and nest my list of things. What is the appropriate way to use my serializer and get this output?
If I create config/initializers/active_model_serializers.rb and add
ActiveModel::Serializer.config.adapter = :json_api
It gives me an api which is similar but I don't know if it can be customized to fit the spec I need above.
thank you for any help
It looks like the serialization logic in render json: ... only kicks in if the attribute is an ActiveRecord object or an array of ActiveRecord objects. Since you are giving it a hash, it will not inspect the individual attributes and recursively apply the serializers.
You can try manually applying ThingSerializer:
render json: {
next: ...,
prev: ...,
results: #things.map { |thing|
ThingSerializer.new(thing).attributes
},
}
Can anyone help me with this problem?
So, here is the problem, I want to merge this query response:
#energy = Alert.where(["alert_type = ?", "Energy"]).last.as_json
#cost = Alert.where(["alert_type = ?", "Cost"]).last.as_json
Then I merge those object with:
#current_notif = #energy.merge(#cost)
But those just give me #cost object like this:
{
"alert_type": "Cost",
"value": 30000000,
"status": "Cost exceeds limit",
"created_at": "2017-06-03T15:31:21.156+07:00",
"updated_at": "2017-06-03T15:31:21.156+07:00",
"home_id": 2
}
Rather than a merged #energy + #cost like this:
{ {"alert_type": "Energy",
"value": 384455.813978742,
"status": "Energy too high",
"created_at": "2017-05-31T11:31:12.907+07:00",
"updated_at": "2017-05-31T11:31:12.907+07:00",
"home_id": 2 },
{
"alert_type": "Cost",
"value": 30000000,
"status": "Cost exceeds limit",
"created_at": "2017-06-03T15:31:21.156+07:00",
"updated_at": "2017-06-03T15:31:21.156+07:00",
"home_id": 2
}
}
If you want you could "join" both values, and then over that use as_json:
[#energy, #cost].as_json
# [{"alert_type": "Energy", ... }, {"alert_type": "Cost", ... }]
Or if you want you could use the IN expression, in order to deal with ActiveRecord instead having to customize the result this gives you:
Alert.where(alert_type: ['Energy', 'Cost']).as_json
# [{"alert_type": "Energy", ... }, {"alert_type": "Cost", ... }]
This is happening because that's how merge works.
hash = {:name => "Ade", :gender => "Male"}.merge(:name => "Bob")
puts hash # {:name=>"Bob", :gender=>"Male"}
Solution:
results = [ #energy, #cost ]
results.each do |result|
puts result['alert_type'] # Energy, Cost
end
I'm passing nested JSON into rails like so:
{
"product": {
"vendor": "Acme",
"categories":
{
"id": "3",
"method": "remove",
},
"categories":
{
"id": "4"
}
}
}
in order to update the category on a product. I am trying to iterate through the categories attribute in my products_controller so that I can add/remove the product to multiple categories at once:
def updateCategory
#product = Product.find(params[:id])
params[:product][:categories].each do |u|
#category = Category.find_by(id: params[:product][:categories][:id])
if params[:product][:categories][:method] == "remove"
#product.remove_from_category(#category)
else
#product.add_to_category(#category)
end
end
end
However, this only uses the second 'categories' ID in the update and doesn't iterate through both.
Example response JSON:
{
"product": {
"id": 20,
"title": "Heavy Duty Aluminum Chair",
"product_price": "47.47",
"vendor": "Acme",
"categories": [
{
"id": 4,
"title": "Category 4"
}
]
}
}
As you can see, it only added the category with ID = 4, and skipped over Category 3.
I'm fairly new to rails so I know I'm probably missing something obvious here. I've played around with the format of the JSON I'm passing in as well but it only made things worse.
You need to change your JSON structure. As you currently have it, the second "categories" reference will override the first one since you can only have 1 instance of a key. To get what you want, you should change it to:
{
"product": {
"vendor": "Acme",
"categories": [
{
"id": "3",
"method": "remove",
},
{
"id": "4"
}
]
}
}
You will also need to change your ruby code to look like:
def updateCategory
#product = Product.find(params[:id])
params[:product][:categories].each do |u|
#category = Category.find_by(id: u[:id])
if u[:method] == "remove"
#product.remove_from_category(#category)
else
#product.add_to_category(#category)
end
end
end
The default way to output JSON in rails is some thing like:
Code:
render :json => friends.to_json(:only => [:username, :avatar_file_name, :id ])
Output
{"friends" :
[{"user":
{"avatar_file_name": "image1.jpg", "username": "user1", "id": 1}},
{"user":
{"avatar_file_name": "image2.jpg", "username": "user2", "id": 2}},
{"user":
{"avatar_file_name": "image3.jpg", "username": "user3", "id": 3}}
]}
But i want something like:
{"friends" :
{"user": [
{"avatar_file_name": "image1.jpg", "username": "user1", "id": 1},
{"avatar_file_name": "image2.jpg", "username": "user2", "id": 2},
{"avatar_file_name": "image3.jpg", "username": "user3", "id": 3}
]}
}
The class is specified by the array name.
Last.fm also uses this syntax see Last.fm 'API-user.getfriends'
The solution to this problem is commenting the line
ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = true
in initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb
Or setting ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json to false.
You can use javascript to reformat it:
var json =
{
"friends" :
{ "user": [] }
}
var i = 0;
for ( x in friends )
{
json.friends.user[i].avatar_file_name = x.user.avatar_file_name; // add more fields.
i++;
}
Something among those lines.
JSON is normally used to represent objects in a text format.
So if you like the secon output you must change your objects.
The first output says:
there is a friends object which is a array of user, each user has some properties among which you chose to expose username, avatar_file_name, id
The second output says:
there is a friends object which contains a user object which is an array of unnamed objects, each unnamed objects has some properties...
This second output is not writable in JSON syntax.
It might be:
{"friends" :
{"user": [
["avatar_file_name", "username", "id"],
["image1.jpg", "user1", 1],
["image2.jpg", "user2", 2],
["image3.jpg", "user3", 3]
]}
}
This says:
there is a friends object which contains a user object which is an array of array (a table with field names on first row) ...