问题
I'm learning Sinatra, and I have read datamapper documentation and found this n to n relationship example:
class Photo
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
has n, :taggings
has n, :tags, :through => :taggings
end
class Tag
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
has n, :taggings
has n, :photos, :through => :taggings
end
class Tagging
include DataMapper::Resource
belongs_to :tag, :key => true
belongs_to :photo, :key => true
end
What I understood from the code above is that one photo may have many or zero tags, and a tag may have many or zero photos. How do I retrieve a list of photos with the tags associated to it already loaded. I know datamapper uses the lazy approach, so it does not automatically loads the associated classes (in this case photo.tag). So this:
photos = Photo.all
would result in an array with Photo objects without the tags. Is there a way to automatically retrieve it or do I have to iterate over the array and set that manually?
Thanks in advance!
回答1:
I also have a database which has similar relations. Author, Post, Tag are main models, and Subscribedtag and Tagging are built through has n, :through.
class Author
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
property :email, String, :unique => true
property :password, String
property :first_name, String
property :last_name, String
property :bio, Text
property :phone, String, :unique => true
property :twitter, String, :unique => true
property :facebook, String, :unique => true
property :show_phone, Boolean, :default => false
property :show_facebook, Boolean, :default => false
property :show_twitter, Boolean, :default => false
property :is_admin, Boolean, :default => false
property :this_login, DateTime
property :last_login, DateTime
property :session_lasting, Integer, :default => 0
has n, :posts
has n, :subscribedtags
has n, :tags, :through => :subscribedtags
end
class Post
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
property :title, String, :required => true
property :body, Text, :required => true
property :is_blog_post, Boolean, :default => true
property :viewed, Integer, :default => 0
property :featured, Boolean, :default => false
property :created_at, DateTime
property :updated_at, DateTime
belongs_to :author
belongs_to :category
has n, :comments
has n, :taggings
has n, :tags, :through => :taggings
validates_length_of :title, :min => 3
validates_length_of :body, :min => 20
validates_format_of :title, :with => /\w/
#some other methods
end
class Tag
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
property :name, String, :unique => true
has n, :taggings
has n, :posts, :through => :taggings
has n, :subscribedtags
has n, :authors, :through => :subscribedtags
validates_length_of :name, :min => 1
validates_format_of :name, :with => /\w/
# some other methods
end
class Tagging
include DataMapper::Resource
belongs_to :tag, :key => true
belongs_to :post, :key => true
end
class Subscribedtag
include DataMapper::Resource
belongs_to :tag, :key => true
belongs_to :author, :key => true
end
The way you've defined models, allows you to write queries, like that.
2.2.0 :016 > kant = Tag.get(25) # getting tag instance with id 25 and assign it to variable named kant
=> #<Tag @id=25 @name="İmmanuil Kant">
2.2.0 :017 > kant.posts
=> #returns post instances which has this tag.
2.2.0 :018 > kant.posts.count # count of posts with this tag.
=> 2
2.2.0 :021 > kant.posts.first.author.first_name
=> "Ziya" # check my author class and first_name attribute.
Let's say I want to retrieve the tag instances which has no posts. a simple ruby command.
2.2.0 :024 > Tag.each {|tnp| puts tnp.name if tnp.posts.count == 0}
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Or retrieving tags based on posts.
2.2.0 :034 > p = Post.get(9)
=> #<Post @id=9 @title="Why we use Lorem Ipsum" @body=<not loaded> @is_blog_post=false @viewed=0 @featured=false @created_at=#<DateTime: 2015-08-02T23:14:04+05:00 ((2457237j,65644s,0n),+18000s,2299161j)> @updated_at=#<DateTime: 2015-08-02T23:14:04+05:00 ((2457237j,65644s,0n),+18000s,2299161j)> @author_id=1 @category_id=1>
2.2.0 :035 > p.tags
=> [#<Tag @id=19 @name="Bundesliqa">]
retrieve posts which has no tag.
2.2.0 :043 > Post.each {|pnt| puts pnt.id if pnt.tags.count.zero?}
8 #post with id has no tags
2.2.0 :044 > Post.get(8).tags.count
=> 0
you can also query via other attributes.
2.2.0 :046 > Tag.first(:name => "Lorem").id
=> 30
iterate over results
2.2.0 :050 > Tag.first(:name => "Lorem").posts.each {|lorempost| puts lorempost.title} # printing post titles which are tagged with lorem.
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I also associated authors with tags through Subscribedtags model, which I can easily check which author is subscribed to which tag, and vice versa.
2.2.0 :055 > z = Author.get(1)
=> # returns details of author instance
2.2.0 :056 > z.tags
=> [#, #, #, #]
or querying via Subscribedtag
2.2.0 :057 > z.subscribedtags
=> [#<Subscribedtag @tag_id=2 @author_id=1>, #<Subscribedtag @tag_id=4 @author_id=1>, #<Subscribedtag @tag_id=25 @author_id=1>, #<Subscribedtag @tag_id=30 @author_id=1>]
you can also define your own functions to utilize querying. I've defined a subscribed_tags method which returns an array of subscribed tags' names.
2.2.0 :058 > z.subscribed_tags
=> ["Həyat", "Məstan", "İmmanuil Kant", "Lorem"]
If I want to retrieve the first_name attribute of a random author, who is subscribed to tag named "Lorem",
2.2.0 :062 > Tag.first(:name => "Lorem").authors.sample.first_name
=> "Ziya"
As an answer to your 2nd question, yes, most times you have to iterate.
Because Photos.all return a collection of Photo object instances. And this instances individually has tag attributes, not the array consists of Photo instances.
if you call p = Photo.all; print p.tags; it will return all tags associated with all photos, which may or may not be the thing you want.
Feel free to ask more questions, if these are not enough.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33058088/retrieve-records-which-have-many-to-many-association-using-ruby-and-datamapper