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Deserializing a Compound document #19

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@oeyiowuawi

Hi

I tried deserializing a compound json api document with the gem and found out this isn't supported as of now. For example, if the payload looks like this

{
  "data": [{
    "type": "articles",
    "id": "1",
    "attributes": {
      "title": "JSON API paints my bikeshed!"
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "http://example.com/articles/1"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "author": {
        "links": {
          "self": "http://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author",
          "related": "http://example.com/articles/1/author"
        },
        "data": { "type": "people", "id": "9" }
      },
      "comments": {
        "links": {
          "self": "http://example.com/articles/1/relationships/comments",
          "related": "http://example.com/articles/1/comments"
        },
        "data": [
          { "type": "comments", "id": "5" },
          { "type": "comments", "id": "12" }
        ]
      }
    }
  }],
  "included": [{
    "type": "people",
    "id": "9",
    "attributes": {
      "first-name": "Dan",
      "last-name": "Gebhardt",
      "twitter": "dgeb"
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "http://example.com/people/9"
    }
  }, {
    "type": "comments",
    "id": "5",
    "attributes": {
      "body": "First!"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "author": {
        "data": { "type": "people", "id": "2" }
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "http://example.com/comments/5"
    }
  }, {
    "type": "comments",
    "id": "12",
    "attributes": {
      "body": "I like XML better"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "author": {
        "data": { "type": "people", "id": "9" }
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "http://example.com/comments/12"
    }
  }]
}

One would have to manually to iterate over the data key and feed each resource into the Article deserializer.

class DeserializableArticle < JSONAPI::Deserializable::Resource
   has_one :author
    has_many :comments do | link, ids, types | do
       ....
    end
end

doc = JSON.parse(document)
doc["data"].map do |resource|
  DeserializableArticle.call(resource)
end

But going this way would mean other top level document related resources(the included key) wouldn't be available in the has_many block defined in the deserializer.
Is there a way to get the related resources added in the included top-level part of the document into the has_many/has_one block so we can easily get all the needed data deserialized together?

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