Updates to merge policy

Source/MMRecord/MMRecordMarshaler.h

@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@
  relationships on various other records. Generally speaking, its expected that a response will
  contain either duplicate references to record primary keys, which allow MMRecord to fetch the
  appropriate record to associate as a relationship. Or, the response may contain duplicate fully
- saturated objects. In this case, the first object will "win", and all other references to that
- object will be populated using the first one that is found.
+ saturated objects. In this case, the first fully saturated object will "win", and all other 
+ references to that object will be populated using the first one that is found.
 
  This method is intended as a means to merge those various different response objects together to
  create a master instance of a particular record. In some responses an object may contain a subset
@@ -128,8 +128,12 @@
  @param dictionary The dictionary for the n+1th record response object of a given type and 
  primary key.
  @param protoRecord The proto record created to represent this specific object by MMRecord.
- @discussion This method has no default implementation. You must subclass MMRecordMarshaler to
- provide your own implementation.
+ @discussion The default implementation of this method will look for cases where a given record is
+ only identified by a primary key and includes no additional data to populate it with. In this case
+ the primary key of that original proto record will be compared with the incoming object dictionary
+ and if they match then the new dictionary will be associated with the proto record.
+ @warning If you decide to subclass this method you may want to use the super implementation
+ as a starting point for your own implementation. Calling super is not required, but is recommended.
  */
 + (void)mergeDuplicateRecordResponseObjectDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary
  withExistingProtoRecord:(MMRecordProtoRecord *)protoRecord;

Source/MMRecord/MMRecordMarshaler.m

@@ -249,7 +249,35 @@ + (void)establishPrimaryKeyRelationshipFromProtoRecord:(MMRecordProtoRecord *)pr
 
 + (void)mergeDuplicateRecordResponseObjectDictionary:(NSDictionary *)dictionary
  withExistingProtoRecord:(MMRecordProtoRecord *)protoRecord {
- // There is no default implementation for this method. Feel free to provide your own :)
+ if ([protoRecord.dictionary.allKeys count] == 1) {
+ NSAttributeDescription *primaryAttributeDescription = protoRecord.representation.primaryAttributeDescription;
+ NSArray *primaryKeyPaths = [protoRecord.representation keyPathsForMappingAttributeDescription:primaryAttributeDescription];
+
+ BOOL dictionariesContainIdenticalPrimaryKeys = NO;
+
+ for (NSString *keyPath in primaryKeyPaths) {
+ id dictionaryValue = [dictionary valueForKeyPath:keyPath];
+ id protoRecordValue = [dictionary valueForKeyPath:keyPath];
+
+ if ([dictionaryValue isKindOfClass:[NSNumber class]] && [protoRecordValue isKindOfClass:[NSNumber class]]) {
+ dictionariesContainIdenticalPrimaryKeys = [dictionaryValue isEqualToNumber:protoRecordValue];
+ } else if ([dictionaryValue isKindOfClass:[NSString class]] && [protoRecordValue isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) {
+ dictionariesContainIdenticalPrimaryKeys = [dictionaryValue isEqualToString:protoRecordValue];
+ }
+
+ if (dictionariesContainIdenticalPrimaryKeys) {
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (dictionariesContainIdenticalPrimaryKeys) {
+ protoRecord.dictionary = dictionary;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if ([dictionary.allKeys count] != [protoRecord.dictionary.allKeys count]) {
+ [MMRecordDebugger logMessageWithDescription:@"Possible inconsistent duplicate records detected. MMRecord provided the opportunity to merge two dictionaries representing the same record, where those two dictionaries were not equal. You may override the MMRecordMarshaler mergeDuplicateRecordResponseObjectDictionary:withExistingProtoRecord: method to deal with this issue if it becomes a problem. This is not expected behavior and may be due to an response issue."];
+ }
 }
 
 

Source/MMRecord/MMRecordProtoRecord.h

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
  each unique record in the response object. The proto record is not responsible for that, but it is
  an important consideration for a user of this class to consider. This class is responsible for 
  populating records with their given dictionary, as well as establishing relationships to it's record.
+
+ Note: when the value representing a relationship is a single string or number that MMRecord will
+ convert that string or number into a dictionary with that value, and they primary key identified
+ for that targetted relationship's entity. That means that the representation of a proto record
+ will always be in the form of a dictionary, even if the response object form is a string or a
+ number.
  */
 
 @interface MMRecordProtoRecord : NSObject

Source/MMRecord/MMRecordResponse.m

@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ - (MMRecordProtoRecord *)protoRecordWithRecordResponseObject:(id)recordResponseO
  entity:entity
  representation:representation];
 
+
  if (proto.hasRelationshipPrimarykey == NO) {
  if (proto.primaryKeyValue == nil) {
  if (self.options.entityPrimaryKeyInjectionBlock != nil) {
@@ -303,16 +304,19 @@ - (void)addRelationshipProtoRecordsToProtoRecord:(MMRecordProtoRecord *)protoRec
  }
 
  for (id object in relationshipObject) {
+ NSEntityDescription *recordSubEntity = [self subEntityForRecordResponseObject:object
+ withInitialEntity:entity];
+
+ MMRecordProtoRecord *relationshipProto = [self protoRecordWithRecordResponseObject:object
+ entity:recordSubEntity
+ existingResponseGroups:responseGroups
+ parentProtoRecord:protoRecord];
+
+ // By keeping the above section of code outside the conditional we can gaurantee that
+ // the protoRecord generation/parsing method above gets called for every relationship
+ // proto, which also causes the optional merge code to be run for all possible updated
+ // relationship protos.
  if ([protoRecord canAccomodateAdditionalProtoRecordForRelationshipDescription:relationshipDescription]) {
-
- NSEntityDescription *recordSubEntity = [self subEntityForRecordResponseObject:object
- withInitialEntity:entity];
-
- MMRecordProtoRecord *relationshipProto = [self protoRecordWithRecordResponseObject:object
- entity:recordSubEntity
- existingResponseGroups:responseGroups
- parentProtoRecord:protoRecord];
-
  [protoRecord addRelationshipProto:relationshipProto
  forRelationshipDescription:relationshipDescription];
  }