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class ValidatesDeeply | |
Failure = Struct.new(:model, :message) | |
Result = Struct.new(:valid?, :failures) | |
def validate(model, visited = Set.new) | |
return Result.new(true) if visited.include?(model) | |
visited.add(model) | |
combine_results(Result.new(model.valid?, extract_failures(model)), *validate_associations(model, visited)) | |
end | |
private | |
def combine_results(*results) | |
Result.new(results.all?(&:valid?), results.flat_map(&:failures).compact) | |
end | |
def extract_failures(model) | |
model.errors.full_messages.map { |message| Failure.new(model, message) } | |
end | |
SKIP_ASSOCIATED_TABLES = %w[ | |
active_storage_attachments | |
active_storage_blobs | |
active_storage_variant_records | |
].freeze | |
def validate_associations(model, visited) | |
model.class.reflect_on_all_associations.reject { |assoc| | |
assoc.is_a?(ActiveRecord::Reflection::BelongsToReflection) || | |
assoc.is_a?(ActiveRecord::Reflection::ThroughReflection) || | |
SKIP_ASSOCIATED_TABLES.include?(assoc.table_name) | |
}.flat_map do |association| | |
associated_records = model.send(association.name) | |
validate_association(associated_records, visited) | |
end | |
end | |
def validate_association(associated, visited) | |
case associated | |
when ActiveRecord::Base | |
validate(associated, visited) | |
when Enumerable | |
associated.map { |record| validate(record, visited) } | |
else | |
Result.new(true) | |
end | |
end | |
end |
I have a back-end CMS of a number of entities that take the admin a month to fully complete, so saving each layer of six related associations without serious validation of the associated records is very important as so much is WIP, so validates_associated
would be onerous. However, as the scheduled publish date draws near, the system needs to surface all the ways in which the data is in good or bad shape.
To that ends, I built a (not pictured here) PORO that does a few dozen such health checks on the root model of interest, but as a last sanity check I also wanted to make sure that "if they were saved today" (potentially a month later, with any applicable code/migration changes that had occurred since creation), all of the associated records would still be considered valid, and—if not—surface that information in the health check too.
So roughly: HighLevelThing
-> lots of DependentAssociatedModels
's, we don't necessarily care about Serious Validation™ until HighLevelModel
flips some published?
bit/enum.
There might still be a vanilla Rails approach:
#pseudo-rails code, obvs
class HighLevelThing
has_many :whatevers
validates_associated :whatevers, if: :published?
end
class Whatever
belongs_to :high_level_thing
# serious validation saved for high level publishing
validates :whatever, if: -> { high_level_thing.published? }
end
Definitely a matter of taste—I'm sure ValidatesDeeply
does the thing you want it to, but 6+ months out I know which code I'd rather have forgotten. 😅
Something certainly feels amiss here for sure.
Is there a reason
validates_associated
doesn't fit? / Can you share anything about the concrete use-case?