Here is a list of backward-incompatible changes that were introduced while Her is pre-1.0. After reaching 1.0, it will follow the Semantic Versioning system.
Associations have been refactored so that calling the association name method doesn’t immediately load or fetch the data.
class User
include Her::Model
has_many :comments
end
# This doesn’t fetch the data yet and it’s still chainable
comments = User.find(1).comments
# This actually fetches the data
puts comments.inspect
# This is no longer possible in her-0.6
comments = User.find(1).comments(:approved => 1)
# To pass additional parameters to the HTTP request, we now have to do this
comments = User.find(1).comments.where(:approved => 1)Her is now compatible with ActiveModel and includes ActiveModel::Validations.
Before 0.5, the errors method on an object would return an error list received from the server (the :errors key defined by the parsing middleware). But now, errors returns the error list generated after calling the valid? method (or any other similar validation method from ActiveModel::Validations). The error list returned from the server is now accessible from the response_errors method.
Since 0.5.5, Her provides a store_response_errors method, which allows you to choose the method which will return the response errors. You can use it to revert Her back to its original behavior (ie. errors returning the response errors):
class User
include Her::Model
store_response_errors :errors
end
user = User.create(:email => "foo") # POST /users returns { :errors => ["Email is invalid"] }
user.errors # => ["Email is invalid"]Her no longer includes default middleware when making HTTP requests. The user has now to define all the needed middleware. Before:
Her::API.setup :url => "https://api.example.com" do |connection|
connection.insert(0, FaradayMiddle::OAuth)
endNow:
Her::API.setup :url => "https://api.example.com" do |connection|
connection.use FaradayMiddle::OAuth
connection.use Her::Middleware::FirstLevelParseJSON
connection.use Faraday::Request::UrlEncoded
connection.use Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp
endThe default parser middleware has been replaced to treat first-level JSON data as the resource or collection data. Before it expected this:
{ "data": { "id": 1, "name": "Foo" }, "errors": [] }Now it expects this (the errors key is not treated as resource data):
{ "id": 1, "name": "Foo", "errors": [] }If you still want to get the old behavior, you can use Her::Middleware::SecondLevelParseJSON instead of Her::Middleware::FirstLevelParseJSON in your middleware stack.