Breaking change:
- Adapters now inherit Adapter::Base
- 'Adapter' is now a module, no longer a class
Why?
- using a class as a namespace that you also inherit from is complicated and circular at time i.e.
buggy (see https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers/pull/1177)
- The class methods on Adapter aren't necessarily related to the instance methods, they're more
Adapter functions
- named `Base` because it's a Rails-ism
- It helps to isolate and highlight what the Adapter interface actually is
It's a new implementation of cache based on ActiveSupport::Cache.
The implementation abstracts the cache in Adapter class on a
private method called cached_object, this method is intended
to be used on Adapters inside serializable_hash method in order
to cache each instance of the object that will be returned by
the serializer.
Some of its features are:
- A different syntax. (no longer need the cache_key method).
- An options argument that have the same arguments of ActiveSupport::Cache::Store, plus a key option that will be the prefix of the object cache on a pattern "#{key}-#{object.id}".
- It cache the objects individually and not the whole Serializer return, re-using it in different requests (as a show and a index method for example.)
If type is `author` but the association is called `writer`, the linked
resource key should be called `authors`, e.g
{
...
linked: {
authors: [{
...
}]
}
...
}
The options passed to the render are partitioned into adapter options
and serializer options. 'include' and 'root' are sent to the adapter,
not sure what options would go directly to serializer, but leaving this
in until I understand that better.
