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User properties and schema.yml

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This section contains information about a new feature: associating properties directly to a user via schema.yml.

Problem

Currently in order to add a property to a User, you need to go through UserProfile. In simple scenarios, this seems unnecessary and increases the learning curve. For example, if you wanted to add a mandatory property date_of_birth, you would need to create a UserProfileType like Default, and then write a Form similar to:

...
resource: User
fields:
  profiles:
    validation: { presence: true }
    default:
      validation: { presence: true }
      properties:
        validation: { presence: true }
        date_of_birth:
          validation: { presence: true }
...

It does not look simple, despite being one of the basic use cases.

Solution

What we would like to introduce is something closer to:

...
resource: User
fields:
  properties:
    date_of_birth:
      validation: { presence: true }

In order to implement this, we need a place to define properties for User in app. Hence at the same time, we would like to introduce a new configuration file schema.yml. To be able to get most of it, you will also be able to define Model Schemas and User Profiles in it [hence deprecating the Model Schemas and User Profile Types directories]. The schema.yml could look like this:

user:
  profiles:
    seller:
      company_name:
        type: string
  properties:
    date_of_birth:
      type: date

car:
  properties:
    engine:
      type: string

Please note, that there are differences between defining properties in schema.yml and in model_schemas/user_profile_types. Instead of an array for properties, we will use a hash. It is a better data structure, because we want properties to be unique.

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