require 'dm-core' require 'uuidtools' # must be ~>2.0 module DataMapper class Property # UUID Type # First run at this, because I need it. A few caveats: # * Only works on postgres, using the built-in native uuid type. # To make it work in mysql, you'll have to add a typemap entry to # the mysql_adapter. I think. I don't have mysql handy, so I'm # not going to try. For SQLite, this will have to inherit from the # String primitive # * Won't accept a random default, because of the namespace clash # between this and the UUIDtools gem. Also can't set the default # type to UUID() (postgres-contrib's native generator) and # automigrate, because auto_migrate! tries to make it a string "UUID()" # Feel free to enchance this, and delete these caveats when they're fixed. # # -- Rando Sept 25, 08 # # Actually, setting the primitive to "UUID" is not neccessary and causes # a segfault when trying to query uuid's from the database. The primitive # should be a class which has been added to the do driver you are using. # Also, it's only neccessary to add a class to the do drivers to use as a # primitive when a value cannot be represented as a string. A uuid can be # represented as a string, so setting the primitive to String ensures that # the value argument is a String containing the uuid in string form. # # It is still neccessary to add the UUID entry to the type map for # each different adapter with their respective database primitive. # # The method that generates the SQL schema from the typemap currently # ignores the size attribute from the type map if the primitive type # is String. The causes the generated SQL statement to contain a size for # a UUID column (e.g. id UUID(50)), which causes a syntax error in postgres. # Until this is resolved, you will have to manually change the column type # to UUID in a migration, if you want to use postgres' built in UUID type. # # -- benburkert Nov 15, 08 # class UUID < String length 36 # We need to override this method otherwise typecast_to_primitive won't be called. # In the future we will set primitive to UUIDTools::UUID but this can happen only # when adapters can handle it def primitive?(value) value.kind_of?(UUIDTools::UUID) end def dump(value) value.to_s unless value.nil? end def load(value) if primitive?(value) value elsif !value.nil? UUIDTools::UUID.parse(value) end end def typecast_to_primitive(value) load(value) end end end end