[katello-devel] Provider model access issue

[Ivan Nečas]

On 09/29/2011 02:01 AM, Partha Aji wrote:
>
> So I was adding this code to Organization to automatically create a redhat provider when its initialized
>
> class Organization<  ActiveRecord::Base
>    include Glue::Candlepin::Owner if AppConfig.use_cp
>    include Glue if AppConfig.use_cp
>    include Authorization
> ......
>    before_create :create_locker
>    before_create :create_redhat_provider
> .....
>    def create_redhat_provider
>      self.providers<<  Provider.new(:name =>  "Red Hat",:provider_type=>  Provider::REDHAT, :organization =>  self)
>    end
> ....
> end
>
> so when I try to do
> Organization.create! :name=>"foo", :cp_key=>"foo"
>
> I get
>
> NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for Glue::Provider:Module

The problem in this case Glue::Provider module is used. Use ::Provider  
to use the model class (:: in the prefix means "absolute" path to the 
module)

> from /work/katello/katello/src/app/models/organization.rb:57:in `create_redhat_provider'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:425:in `_run_create_callbacks'
>
> Question is how do I ask it to look at the non glue version of the provider? Do I have to do some aliasing trick as in
> class Organization<  ActiveRecord::Base
>      alias :model_provider Provider
>      include Glue::Candlepin::Owner if AppConfig.use_cp
>      include Glue if AppConfig.use_cp
>      include Authorization
> ....
>    def create_redhat_provider
>      self.providers<<  model_provider.new(:name =>  "Red Hat", :provider_type=>  Provider::REDHAT, :organization =>  self)
>    end
>
> end
>
> Actually even that seems to have some issues :).. Any ideas
>
>
> Partha
>
>
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Regards,

  Ivan Necas
  Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Brno