Module: Authlogic::Session::Callbacks

Included in:
Base
Defined in:
lib/authlogic/session/callbacks.rb

Overview

Between these callsbacks and the configuration, this is the contract between me and you to safely modify Authlogic’s behavior. I will do everything I can to make sure these do not change.

Check out the sub modules of Authlogic::Session. They are very concise, clear, and to the point. More importantly they use the same API that you would use to extend Authlogic. That being said, they are great examples of how to extend Authlogic and add / modify behavior to Authlogic. These modules could easily be pulled out into their own plugin and become an “add on” without any change.

Now to the point of this module. Just like in ActiveRecord you have before_save, before_validation, etc. You have similar callbacks with Authlogic, see the METHODS constant below. The order of execution is as follows:

before_persisting
persist
after_persisting
[save record if record.changed?]

before_validation
before_validation_on_create
before_validation_on_update
validate
after_validation_on_update
after_validation_on_create
after_validation
[save record if record.changed?]

before_save
before_create
before_update
after_update
after_create
after_save
[save record if record.changed?]

before_destroy
[save record if record.changed?]
destroy
after_destroy

Notice the “save record if changed?” lines above. This helps with performance. If you need to make changes to the associated record, there is no need to save the record, Authlogic will do it for you. This allows multiple modules to modify the record and execute as few queries as possible.

WARNING: unlike ActiveRecord, these callbacks must be set up on the class level:

class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
  before_validation :my_method
  validate :another_method
  # ..etc
end

You can NOT define a “before_validation” method, this is bad practice and does not allow Authlogic to extend properly with multiple extensions. Please ONLY use the method above.

Constant Summary collapse

METHODS = 
[
  "before_persisting", "persist", "after_persisting",
  "before_validation", "before_validation_on_create", "before_validation_on_update", "validate",
  "after_validation_on_update", "after_validation_on_create", "after_validation",
  "before_save", "before_create", "before_update", "after_update", "after_create", "after_save",
  "before_destroy", "after_destroy"
]

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(base) ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/authlogic/session/callbacks.rb', line 64

def self.included(base) #:nodoc:
  base.send :include, ActiveSupport::Callbacks
  base.define_callbacks *METHODS
  
  # If Rails 3, support the new callback syntax
  if base.send(base.respond_to?(:singleton_class) ? :singleton_class : :metaclass).method_defined?(:set_callback)
    METHODS.each do |method|
      base.class_eval <<-"end_eval", __FILE__, __LINE__
        def self.#{method}(*methods, &block)
          set_callback :#{method}, *methods, &block
        end
      end_eval
    end
  end
end