If condition on RABL

Question

I have two attributes in my relation - flyer and flyer_url. I want to put an if condition which assigns either flyer or flyer_url to flyer_image_url depending on which is not null. All the records have either of them set to null. I've tried the following code but it is only assigning flyer_url to flyer_image_url even when it is null:

attribute :flyer => :flyer_image_url
attribute :flyer_url => :flyer_image_url, :if => lambda { |flyer_url| !flyer_url.nil? }

Please help! Thanks!!

Answer 1

Thanks to Nathan Esquenazi - the creator of RABL, I finally got the answer.

This is a limitation (although somewhat intentional) of RABL, for a given key name “flyer_image_url” there should only ever be a single statement associated with it. Trying to have two statements associated with a single key is what is causing the confusion here.

He suggests using a single node instead with custom logic: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl#custom-nodes

node :flyer_image_url do |object|
   object.flyer_url.nil? ? object.flyer : object.flyer_url
   # This is just ruby, put whatever you want that ends up as a string
end

That worked like a charm! Hope this answer finds somebody!