JsonapiModels

A set of rails generators that will create model files for front end frameworks based off of your db schema and active model serializers

TODO:

• CoreData Models
• Swift File Generation
• Generic Models for Angular
• React??
• Ember??
• Android??

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile: (I haven't pushed to rubygems yet)

gem 'jsonapi_models', :git => 'https://github.com/oncore-education/jsonapi_models.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jsonapi_models

Requirements

The generated models only include attributes and relationships that are included in the serializers for each model.

If a model exists, but does not have a serializer it will be skipped

Extra Attributes

In some cases you may want to allow attributes to be pushed to the API, but not serialized from the API. For instance you need to push user.password, but you shouldn't have password in the user serializer. To include these private attributes simply add a method in your seralizer called private_attributes

def private_attributes
  ["password:string",
   "password_confirmation:string"]
end

Polymorphic Attributes

If you are using polymorphic relationships your serializer will have a line like:

belongs_to :commentable, :polymorphic => true

You can define a method in the serlializer to define what the available types will be.

def commentable_types
  [Article, Event, Photo]
end

Usage

install initializers

$ rails g jsonapi_models:install

Currently this gem only works to output Angular Models for use with the angular2-jsonapi

• First set the ng_output in initializers/jsonapi_models.rb

generate models:

$ rails g jsonapi_models:angular

Inspired by MOGenerator, two classes will be created for each model. The machine generated class includes all of the attributes and relationships. This file will be overwritten every time you generate models.

The other class extends the machine generated class and you can put custom model methods in there. This file will only be written once.

Output

For use with angular2-jsonapi, you should set config.ng_ouput equal to MyAngularApp/src/app

Two directories will be created only if they don't exist: models and services

This will handle creating the necessary datastore class as well which will initialize and import all of your models

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/oncore-education/jsonapi_models.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.