Class Mongoid::Relations::Builder
In: lib/mongoid/relations/builder.rb
Parent: Object

Superclass for all builder objects. Builders are responsible for either looking up a relation‘s target from the database, or creating them from a supplied attributes hash.

Methods

klass   new   query?  

Included Modules

Threaded::Lifecycle

Attributes

base  [R] 
metadata  [R] 
object  [R] 

Public Class methods

Instantiate the new builder for a relation.

@example Create the builder.

  Builder.new(metadata, { :field => "value })

@param [ Document ] base The base document. @param [ Metdata ] metadata The metadata for the relation. @param [ Hash, BSON::ObjectId ] object The attributes to build from or

  id to query with.

@since 2.0.0.rc.1

Protected Instance methods

Get the class from the metadata.

@example Get the class.

  builder.klass

@return [ Class ] The class from the metadata.

@since 2.3.2

Do we need to perform a database query? It will be so if the object we have is not a document.

@example Should we query the database?

  builder.query?

@return [ true, false ] Whether a database query should happen.

@since 2.0.0.rc.1

[Validate]