Serialization of ActiveRecord Instances: No Inheritance Column?

rubyonrails-core
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Hey,

I have been looking at ActiveRecord's serialization code, and noticed that ActiveRecord::XmlSerializer#serializable_attributes purposely excludes the STI inheritance column per ``options[:except] = Array(options[:except]) | Array(@record.class.inheritance_column).'' Is there a particular reason for this? Would anyone be opposed to my writing a patch to have this attribute be included?

Cheers,

Matt

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I have been looking at ActiveRecord's serialization code, and noticed that ActiveRecord::XmlSerializer#serializable_attributes purposely excludes the STI inheritance column per ``options[:except] = Array(options[:except]) | Array(@record.class.inheritance_column).'' Is there a particular reason for this? Would anyone be opposed to my writing a patch to have this attribute be included?

The type is not part of the attributes. The type should be used as the encapsulating tag. So if you have type=SpecialProduct, you'll get <special-product><attributes/>.. That's by design. Why do you want it included?