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feature: choose serialization method for a column

#2206

I'd like to be able to have an alternative to YAML serialization for columns. I'd specifically like JSON serialization, but I suppose other people will want other methods.

It seems like there might be another solution (for extra credit) that involves breaking the transformation aspect of aggregated columns (:constructor, :converter, etc) away from AR::Aggregations, and generalizes it so it could be used with non-aggregated columns.

Come to think of it, I'll go try to make an aggregation on just one column to JSONify the data.

Reported by Peter Abrahamsen · March 11th, 2009 @ 02:02 AM

State: stale
Milestone: 3.x
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none

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  1. Brad Fults
    Brad Fults
    • Tag changed from aggregations, json, serialize to activerecord, aggregations, json, serialize

    I would also like the ability to serialize a column to JSON. Canonical YAML is kind of silly verbose in many cases.

    June 17th, 2009 @ 05:04 PM

  2. Jeremy Kemper
    Jeremy Kemper
    • Milestone changed from 2.x to 3.x

    May 4th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM

  3. Santiago Pastorino
    Santiago Pastorino
    • State changed from new to open
    • Importance changed from to

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

    The resources of the Rails core team are limited, and so we are asking for your help. If you can still reproduce this error on the 3-0-stable branch or on master, please reply with all of the information you have about it and add "[state:open]" to your comment. This will reopen the ticket for review. Likewise, if you feel that this is a very important feature for Rails to include, please reply with your explanation so we can consider it.

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    February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:53 PM

  4. Santiago Pastorino
    Santiago Pastorino
    • State changed from open to stale

    February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:53 PM