Is there a cleaner way of giving a JSON object a named root?

Question

I need to give this object a named root before serving it up, is there a cleaner way of doing this?

get '/api/ducks/:id' do |id|
    content_type :json
    duck = {
        duck: Duck.find(id)
    }
    JSONP duck
end

I don't know what you're using server side, but perhaps in your environnement you can have something like https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers — sly7_7, Apr 23 '13 at 07:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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I don't know what orm you are using

Assuming you are using active-record

you can set some where in config which applies globaly

ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = true

or

Duck.find(id).as_json(:root=>true)

For MongoMapper

class Something
  include MongoMapper::Document
  self.include_root_in_json = true
end

and then

JSONP Duck.where(:id=>id).to_json

also you would like to check the source how it works just for knowledge

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

Community

answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:23

Pritesh Jain

I'm using Rails and MongoMapper, so no - not using ActiveRecord. – Zen Apr 23 '13 at 22:29
@ZenSavona I have updated my answer for MongoMapper hope that helps – Pritesh Jain Apr 24 '13 at 05:53
Thanks for that, upvoted. It still doesn't really do what I need though, as Ember requires a single plural root for the /api/ducks and a single singular root for /api/ducks/:id, where this creates a singular named root for each question, regardless of what query is run (Duck.all or Duck.find) – Zen Apr 24 '13 at 06:43
1

@ZenSavona have updated my answer with where clause i have not used mongomapper let me know if it works – Pritesh Jain Apr 24 '13 at 08:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:20

2

The only cleaner way is to remove the unneeded variable:

get '/api/ducks/:id' do |id|
    content_type :json
    JSONP { duck: Duck.find(id) }
end

answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:20

Tim Dorr

2 Answers2