Why as_json does not return empty object in has_one association?

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I've user and address. One user has one address. so I use applied following association.

class User < ApplicationRecord
  has_one :address, dependent: :destroy
end

and in controller:

render json: User.find(1).as_json(include: :address)

The problem is:

it returns a JSON object like

{id: 1, name: "abc", address: {id: 1, user_id: 1}}

if I have an address for user id 1.

but I don't have an address of any user. it returns

{id: 1, name: "abc"}

but I want response like

{id: 1, name: "abc", address: {}}

if user don't have address.

has-one associations ruby-on-rails
1 Answers

There's probably a more rails-ey way of doing it, but you can just redefine the address attribute:

class UserSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  ...
  ...

  def address
    super || {}
  end
end

When the serializer checks the address, if it's present it will return the address, and if it's nil or false, it will return an empty hash instead of not appearing.

EDIT: As per the comment, this needs to go in the UserSerializer and not the User model, edited code above

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