Hi
I'm using Mongoid and Rails 3, and I want to serialize one of my
mongoid documents to json for publishing via a controller, e.g.
class ReportController < ApplicationController
respond_to :json
def show
report = Report.where(:report_id => params[:id]).first
respond_with report
end
end
This works ok, but pushes out every attribute on the document
including the "internal" mongodb document id, e.g. :
{
_id: 54857324987546, // internal mongoid document id
report_field_a: 1,
report_field_b: 2,
etc
}
I would like to strip this when serializing the report to json, and I
would also like any embedded documents to have their _id properties
excluded too. I have searched for info on as_json, to_json etc but I'm
not sure which is the best practice approach. The closest I can get
is:
class Report
include Mongoid::Document
...
def as_json(options = {})
serializable_hash({ :except => :_id }.merge(options))
end
end
...and then I need to copy that same as_json definition onto embedded
document definitions too. Is this the rails 3 way of doing
serialization customization?
I tried defining as_json as:
def as_json(options = {})
super({ :except => :_id }.merge(options))
end
but that doesn't return a hash as I was expecting, it seems to return
the document itself. I'm not entirely sure what's happening there.
Any pointers are greatfully received!
Cheers
Lee
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