Is there any way to change the associations of a model at runtime, like before running a specific query?
Chris
I want to drop associations for certain queries. Say I have a Customer model that has many transactions and subscriptions. Sometimes I just want to return the customer record only. The catch is that this is for a webservice with a static api defined in a wsdl, so I can't for example create a CustomerWithoutTransactions model and just use that in place of a Customer record.
For example here is the struct that is returned to the client:
CustomerRec < ActionWebService::Struct member :transactions, [TransactionRec] # transactions also have associations. member :subscriptions, [Subscription] member :customer, Customer end
I've tried replacing the customer member with a model that is just like Customer but without any associations. Didnt' work and threw errors about the field that is the primary key not being defined. Probably because it goes to resolve the associations somehow at runtime and finds they don't exist.
What would really be nice is an :exclude option to find that runs the query without any joins on associated tables. So in find with with :exclude => :transactions, customers.transactions would just be an empty array.
Chris
