Presenting `belongs_to` association via Grape Entity in Rails 4

Question

Given these 2 models:

class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :messages, :class_name => 'Message', inverse_of: 'conversation'

  class Entity < Grape::Entity
    expose :id, :title
    expose :messages, :using => 'Message::Entity'
  end
end

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversation, :class_name => 'Conversation', inverse_of: 'messages'

  class Entity < Grape::Entity
    expose :id, :content
    expose :conversation, :using => 'Conversation::Entity'
  end
end

I need to present entities as json containing their associations, and so:

This works fine:

get do
  @c = Conversation.find(1)
  present @c, with: Conversation::Entity
end

While this not:

get do
  @m = Message.find(1)
  present @m, with: Message::Entity
end

It gives me null on conversation:

{"id":1,"content":"#1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet","conversation":null}

So it looks like it's not working for belongs_to associations.

What i need to do in order to make it work?

Sharvy Ahmed · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-12T18:25:05.163

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In case of belongs_to you need to mention the foreign_key explicitly like this:

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversation, :class_name => 'Conversation', inverse_of: 'messages', foreign_key: :conversation_id

  class Entity < Grape::Entity
    expose :id, :content
    expose :conversation, :using => 'Conversation::Entity'
  end
end

edited Mar 12 '15 at 18:25

answered Mar 12 '15 at 18:06

Sharvy Ahmed

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Pff, I knew it will be something simple that i missed up. Anyway that was it. In fact `foreign_key` was enough. Thank you very much :) – plunntic iam Mar 12 '15 at 18:12
Welcome! Then I'm updating my answer. :) – Sharvy Ahmed Mar 12 '15 at 18:24

Presenting `belongs_to` association via Grape Entity in Rails 4

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