Hi,
I'm doing a find_by_sql and am getting an odd error when trying to
render the result to xml.
The find is:
children_list = find_by_sql("SELECT components.componentid,
components.logicalname, versions.level, versions.branch,
versions.sequence FROM components, versions where
components.componentid = '" + component_id + "'" + " AND
versions.componentid = '" + component_id + "'")
When I do a render :xml I get this:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/
serializers/xml_serializer.rb:308: warning: Object#type is deprecated;
use Object#class
Also the xml out put I get sorta looks like this:
<components type="array">
<component>
<branch type="NilClass">0</branch>
<componentid type="integer">342</componentid>
<level type="NilClass">0</level>
<logicalname>SETUP </logicalname>
<sequence type="NilClass">0</sequence>
</component>
...
</components>
Anyone know what that error/warning is?
And also, why are all the NilClass's there in the XML output?
I think you should have some model name.find_by_sql.
eg: If the name of your model is User then you can use
User.find_by_sql("SELECT components.componentid,
components.logicalname, versions.level, versions.branch,
versions.sequence FROM components, versions where
components.componentid = ' #{component_id}' AND
versions.componentid = '#{component_id}' ")
I didn't think that would matter as the find was already inside the
model. In this case a model called Component. So it would have been
Component.find_by_sql.
Tried it in any case and it didn't make a difference. On the other
hand, if I called the find with the other model (in this case called
Version) inside the Component model
i.e. inside the Component model
@somelist = Version.find_by_sql(blah blah)
had an interesting result...
The error/warning message was the same but the resulting XML wasn't.
When I did the
@somelist = find_by_sql or
@somelist = Component.find_by_sql
(both inside the Component model)
had the xml result from my first post.
But when I did
@somelist = Version.find_by_sql(blah blah) inside the Component model
the xml result was
The <versions> and <version> tags are understandable but the
interesting thing is the NilClass for all the elements retrieved from
the components table.
Activerecord uses the column attributes for the table in order to
workout what the types should be. However if you do a find by sql
which joins other tables activerecord doesn't know what the types are
for the columns from other tables. The warning you got is because of
the same thing: line 308 of the file is
@record.class.columns_hash[name].type
but @record.class.columns_hash[name] will be nil if name does not
correspond to a column from that table. (and so the type that is
computed is NilClass). You could sidestep this by using :include to
include the serialization of the version object (although this would
result in slightly different xml) or possibly by playing around with
the :methods options or by telling AR to just not put the types in the
xml (the :skip_types option)
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry for taking a while to respond back.
It was a national holiday on our side so wasn't around during the
weekend.
Anyhow, hmm...As you suggested, I used the skip_types option as I
don't need the types.
Obviously I still get the 308 warning which is really annoying.
I will have to look into the :include option again as the last time I
tried it using find() I didn't have much luck for some odd reason.
I know nothing about the :method option so will need to look into that
one.
You mentions "@record.class.columns_hash[name] will be nil if name
does not correspond to a column from that table". What I don't
understand is why wouldn't it correspond to the columns from the
table? I mean, if they didn't correspond to the column for that table,
the find_by_sql query would fail no? Or are you saying that because
'name' is something along the lines of "versions.componentid" instead
of "componentid" it gets messed up by the table name ("versions")?
Or have I gone totally off tangent here?
In any case, thanks for all the help, greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry for taking a while to respond back.
It was a national holiday on our side so wasn't around during the
weekend.
Anyhow, hmm...As you suggested, I used the skip_types option as I
don't need the types.
Obviously I still get the 308 warning which is really annoying.
I will have to look into the :include option again as the last time I
tried it using find() I didn't have much luck for some odd reason.
I know nothing about the :method option so will need to look into that
one.
You mentions "@record.class.columns_hash[name] will be nil if name
does not correspond to a column from that table". What I don't
understand is why wouldn't it correspond to the columns from the
table? I mean, if they didn't correspond to the column for that table,
the find_by_sql query would fail no? Or are you saying that because
Rails is doing record.class.columns_hash ie it's looking at the
columns hash for one class in particular (in this case Component)
which quite naturally knows nothing about the columns on the versions
table.
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry for taking a while to respond back.
It was a national holiday on our side so wasn't around during the
weekend.
Anyhow, hmm...As you suggested, I used the skip_types option as I
don't need the types.
Obviously I still get the 308 warning which is really annoying.
I will have to look into the :include option again as the last time I
tried it using find() I didn't have much luck for some odd reason.
I know nothing about the :method option so will need to look into that
one.
You mentions "@record.class.columns_hash[name] will be nil if name
does not correspond to a column from that table". What I don't
understand is why wouldn't it correspond to the columns from the
table? I mean, if they didn't correspond to the column for that table,
the find_by_sql query would fail no? Or are you saying that because
Rails is doing record.class.columns_hash ie it's looking at the
columns hash for one class in particular (in this case Component)
which quite naturally knows nothing about the
Hmm...strange. Well, not really strange as I understand what you are
saying but it's strange that there is no full support. I would think
that I am not the only one that would want to search from multiple
tables...
Hmm...strange. Well, not really strange as I understand what you are
saying but it's strange that there is no full support. I would think
that I am not the only one that would want to search from multiple
tables...
On Sep 4, 3:31�am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
Hi,
did you ever find a solution for this as I'm having exactly the same
problem as you describe here? Since the xml I'm producing is public I
cannot really change it and since I don't need the type (I use the
:skip_types option) I cannot understand why the code producing this
warning haven't been modified yet. I'm running rails 2.2.2. Well, any
input would be great.
Hmm...strange. Well, not really strange as I understand what you are
saying but it's strange that there is no full support. I would think
that I am not the only one that would want to search from multiple
tables...
On Sep 4, 3:31�am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
Hi,
did you ever find a solution for this as I'm having exactly the same
problem as you describe here? Since the xml I'm producing is public I
cannot really change it and since I don't need the type (I use the
:skip_types option) I cannot understand why the code producing this
warning haven't been modified yet. I'm running rails 2.2.2. Well, any
input would be great.
Additional information:
As for now I'm running this patch to avoid the problem. Not very nice
but it works. Feel free to comment.
#Removes a warning informing about type is deprecated
#/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/serializers/xml_serializer.rb:308:
warning: Object#type is deprecated;use Object#class
#Seehttp://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/732-deprecation-warning-in-xml_serializer-rb-308#andFind_by_sql and xml_serializer problems - Rails - Ruby-Forum
module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
class XmlSerializer < ActiveRecord::Serialization::Serializer #:nodoc:
class Attribute #:nodoc:
def compute_type
type = @record.class.serialized_attributes.has_key?(name) ?
:yaml : (@record.class.columns_hash[name].nil? ? nil.class :
@record.class.columns_hash[name].type)
case type
when :text
:string
when :time
:datetime
else
type
end
end
end
end
end
