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Paul Schyska

Problems when working with a model which has a non-default primary key, but still has a field named "id"

Reported by Paul Schyska | November 12th, 2010 @ 03:19 PM

We have a model that has a custom primary key ("transaction_id"). It additionally has a column called "id", which is just an integer column.
On this model, if i set either transaction_id or id for a record, using both model.id= and model['id'] syntax resp. model.transaction_id= and model['transaction_id'], it sets the value for both columns. For example, when I set id to 42, transaction_id will also be set to 42.

At https://gist.github.com/674194 you will find a rails console session demonstrating this.

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  • Cesario

    Cesario November 13th, 2010 @ 12:09 AM

    I just had a look at that and I believe this is actually the expected behavior.

    activerecord/attribute_methods/write.rb#L19:

      # Updates the attribute identified by <tt>attr_name</tt> with the specified +value+. Empty strings
      # for fixnum and float columns are turned into +nil+.
      def write_attribute(attr_name, value)
        attr_name = attr_name.to_s
        attr_name = self.class.primary_key if attr_name == 'id'
    

    If I understand correctly the last line, we can't use the id attribute at all if we don't want to use it.

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    rails February 13th, 2011 @ 04:36 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”

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