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Zendesk API V2 client using Cistern

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replace associations mechanism #51

Open lanej opened 8 years ago

lanej commented 8 years ago

is currently very clunky.

Instead of modeling associations as instance variables, they could simply be referred do as attributes. There would be a belongs_to and a has_many.

has_many: would likely require a block form argument yielding a scoped collection that would be stored in the attribute.
belongs_to: should be a simple as declaring the class and making cistern do the leg work.

Side effects:

aping objects would also print nested objects within. This would also force load any association not already loaded.
sideloading would become feasible from the model api.

lanej commented 8 years ago

cistern support for associations is available in 2.6