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Feature requests: Alternative to attr_accessor?

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    • CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2007
     

    Hello all again,

    I was following this tutorial, www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial and he utilizes a ruby native property of attr_accessor (which sets getters and setters). But what is interesting is how the model treats them as almost normal properties, setting them as it goes through mass-assignments and validation is aware of the properties. The only difference seems that the model doesn't save them to the database.

    Is there a way to do this kind of functionality in akelos?

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      CommentAuthorbermi
    • CommentTimeSep 16th 2007
     

    Akelos attributes can be set/get using these approaches (we don't have attr_accessor in PHP :( )

    $User->get('password');
$User->set('password', 'mypass');

    that will get/set a single attribute.

    If you want to mass assign/retrieve attributes you can use

    $attributes = $User->getAttributes();
$User->setAttributes($attributes);

    If you need to do real work on setters/getters you can define in your config/config.php file

    define('AK_ACTIVE_RECORD_ENABLE_AUTOMATIC_SETTERS_AND_GETTERS', true);

    this is not enabled by default as it might cause recursion problems if you're not aware of it. When you add this setting calling

    $User->get('password');

    will look for a method like

    $User->getPassword();

    if it exists and will return the value provided by the specific getter. The same goes for setters

    $User->set('password', 'mypass');

    will look for a method like

    $User->setPassword('mypass');

    That is the way mass assignment getters and setters work in Akelos.

    Hope you find it helpful.

    • CommentAuthorJeff
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2007
     
    thanks Bermi! It works perfectly as needed :)

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