Relationships JSON

[0xbad0c0d3]

When we use relationships - your TO_JSON won't process it.
For example: if table 'users' and 'plans' with relationship user.plan -> plan.id then, when we do $user->TO_JSON we'll receive this: {"user_id":1,"plan":MyAPP::Result::Plan=HASH(0x00000000)}
With this patch result will be like this:
{"user_id":1,"plan":{"id":1,"name":"wow"}}

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Coverage remained the same at 98.447% when pulling c40852e on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 98.447% when pulling c40852e on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 98.447% when pulling c40852e on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 98.447% when pulling c40852e on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[frioux]

Please add a test demonstrating and exercising this. Thanks.

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Coverage increased (+0.003%) to 98.45% when pulling fd98a99 on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.003%) to 98.45% when pulling fd98a99 on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.003%) to 98.45% when pulling fd98a99 on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.003%) to 98.45% when pulling fd98a99 on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.003%) to 98.45% when pulling fd98a99 on 0xbad0c0d3:deepJson into 9f681d6 on frioux:master.

[frioux]

Ok, I have a bunch of problems with this. I asked for tests because the original PR was unclear as to exactly what it does. Here are my main issues, in order of importance:

1. It would break code that expected ids.
2. It only works for relationships that happen to be exactly the same name as columns.
3. Even if you fixed my second issue, it would be increasing the size of the returned JSON object in a way that people would have to opt out of, instead of opt in to.

I would rather add documentation on how to achieve what you've done generically than change code that people are already depending on. Another option would be to make a subclass of this called something like ToJSON::WithRelated, but even then, it is strange to include belongs_to's but not has_manys, and if we fix that we can end up with loops, which I am not super interested in resolve.

What do you think?

[frioux]

Closing this since it's been two months.