Question

I have three tables — stores, addresses and sales. Each store has one or more addresses. Each store also has one or more sales. These relationships are defined in my models. I have a Rabl API that is returning information about sales. I can easily access the store information by using child as follows:

object @sales

attributes :name, :description

child :store do
    attributes :id, :name
end

However, how do I access the addresses information pertaining to that store? There is no direct relationship between sales and addresses specified in the model; the relationship is between stores and addresses.

Answer 1

You can nest your child elements like so

object @sales

attributes :name, :description

child :store do
    attributes :id, :name

    child :addresses do 
        attributes :id, :address, :city, :state
    end
end

see ‘Deep Nesting’ at https://github.com/nesquena/rabl