ruby-on-railsrubyjsonjbuilder

Generate a nested JSON array in JBuilder


I have this models in ruby on rails

Branch model: has_many :menus

class Branch < ActiveRecord::Base           
  belongs_to :place
  belongs_to :city
  has_many :menus , dependent: :destroy
  belongs_to :type_place
end

Menu model: has_many :products

class Menu < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :description, :product_name, :price, :category_id, :menu_id
  belongs_to :branch
  has_many :products, dependent: :destroy
end

Product model:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
 belongs_to :menu
 belongs_to :category
end

with the following code in the view:

if @condition
  json.code :success
  json.branch do
    json.array!(@branches) do |json, branch|
      json.(branch, :id, :branch_name, :barcode)
      json.menu branch.menus, :id, :menu_name
    end
  end
else
  json.code :error
  json.message 'Mensaje de error'
end

gets:

{
 "code": "success",
 "branch": [
{
  "id": 1,
  "branch_name": "Sucursal 1",
  "barcode": "zPOuByzEFe",
  "menu": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "menu_name": "carta sucursal 1"
    }
  ]
},
{
  "id": 2,
  "branch_name": "Sucursal Viña Centro",
  "barcode": "RlwXjAVtfx",
  "menu": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "menu_name": "carta viña centro"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "menu_name": "carta viña centro vinos"
    }
  ]
},
{
  "id": 3,
  "branch_name": "dddd",
  "barcode": "eSbJqLbsyP",
  "menu": [

   ]
  }
 ]
}

But as I get the products of each menu?, I suspect I need to iterate menu, but I have tried several ways without success.


Solution

  • I'm not sure which attributes your product can have, but I would try something like:

        if @condition
         json.code :success
         json.array!(@branches) do |json, branch|
           json.(branch, :id, :branch_name, :barcode)
           json.menus branch.menus do |json,menue|
             json.id menue.id
             json.menu_name menue.menu_name
             json.products menue.products do |json, product|
               json.product_attribute_1 product.product_attribute_1
             end
           end
         end
        else
          json.code :error
          json.message 'Mensaje de error'
        end
    

    I'm also not quite sure why you try to nest @branches under a branch as stated by:

        json.branch do
           ...
        end
    

    I just removed that.