Added acts_as_nested_set #1000 [wschenk]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1185 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activerecord/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added acts_as_nested_set #1000 [wschenk]. Introduction:
+
+    This acts provides Nested Set functionality.  Nested Set is similiar to Tree, but with
+    the added feature that you can select the children and all of it's descendants with
+    a single query.  A good use case for this is a threaded post system, where you want
+    to display every reply to a comment without multiple selects.
+
 * Added insert_at(position) to acts_as_list #1083 [DeLynnB]
 
 * Removed the default order by id on has_and_belongs_to_many queries as it could kill performance on large sets (you can still specify by hand with :order)

activerecord/lib/active_record.rb

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ require 'active_record/reflection'
 require 'active_record/timestamp'
 require 'active_record/acts/list'
 require 'active_record/acts/tree'
+require 'active_record/acts/nested_set'
 require 'active_record/locking'
 require 'active_record/migration'
 
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do
   include ActiveRecord::Reflection
   include ActiveRecord::Acts::Tree
   include ActiveRecord::Acts::List
+  include ActiveRecord::Acts::NestedSet
 end
 
 require 'active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter'

activerecord/lib/active_record/acts/nested_set.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+module ActiveRecord
+  module Acts #:nodoc:
+    module NestedSet #:nodoc:
+      def self.append_features(base)
+        super        
+        base.extend(ClassMethods)              
+      end  
+
+      # This acts provides Nested Set functionality.  Nested Set is similiar to Tree, but with
+      # the added feature that you can select the children and all of it's descendants with
+      # a single query.  A good use case for this is a threaded post system, where you want
+      # to display every reply to a comment without multiple selects.
+      #
+      # A google search for "Nested Set" should point you in the direction to explain the
+      # data base theory.  I figured a bunch of this from
+      # http://threebit.net/tutorials/nestedset/tutorial1.html
+      #
+      # Instead of picturing a leaf node structure with child pointing back to their parent,
+      # the best way to imagine how this works is to think of the parent entity surrounding all
+      # of it's children, and it's parent surrounding it, etc.  Assuming that they are lined up
+      # horizontally, we store the left and right boundries in the database.
+      #
+      # Imagine:
+      #   root
+      #     |_ Child 1
+      #       |_ Child 1.1
+      #       |_ Child 1.2
+      #     |_ Child 2
+      #       |_ Child 2.1
+      #       |_ Child 2.2
+      #
+      # If my cirlces in circles description didn't make sense, check out this sweet
+      # ASCII art:
+      #
+      #     ___________________________________________________________________
+      #    |  Root                                                             |
+      #    |    ____________________________    ____________________________   |
+      #    |   |  Child 1                  |   |  Child 2                  |   |
+      #    |   |   __________   _________  |   |   __________   _________  |   |
+      #    |   |  |  C 1.1  |  |  C 1.2 |  |   |  |  C 2.1  |  |  C 2.2 |  |   |
+      #    1   2  3_________4  5________6  7   8  9_________10 11_______12 13  14
+      #    |   |___________________________|   |___________________________|   |
+      #    |___________________________________________________________________| 
+      #
+      # The numbers represent the left and right boundries.  The table them might
+      # look like this:
+      #    ID | PARENT | LEFT | RIGHT | DATA
+      #     1 |      0 |    1 |    14 | root
+      #     2 |      1 |    2 |     7 | Child 1
+      #     3 |      2 |    3 |     4 | Child 1.1
+      #     4 |      2 |    5 |     6 | Child 1.2
+      #     5 |      1 |    8 |    13 | Child 2
+      #     6 |      5 |    9 |    10 | Child 2.1
+      #     7 |      5 |   11 |    12 | Child 2.2
+      #
+      # So, to get all children of an entry, you
+      #     SELECT * WHERE CHILD.LEFT IS BETWEEN PARENT.LEFT AND PARENT.RIGHT
+      #
+      # To get the count, it's (LEFT - RIGHT + 1)/2, etc.
+      #
+      # To get the direct parent, it falls back to using the PARENT_ID field.   
+      #
+      # There are instance methods for all of these.
+      #
+      # The structure is good if you need to group things together; the downside is that
+      # keeping data integrity is a pain, and both adding and removing and entry
+      # require a full table write.        
+      #
+      # This sets up a before_destroy trigger to prune the tree correctly if one of it's
+      # elements gets deleted.
+      #
+      module ClassMethods                      
+        # Configuration options are:
+        #
+        # * +parent_column+ - specifies the column name to use for keeping the position integer (default: parent_id)
+        # * +left_column+ - column name for left boundry data, default "lft"
+        # * +right_column+ - column name for right boundry data, default "rgt"
+        # * +scope+ - restricts what is to be considered a list. Given a symbol, it'll attach "_id" 
+        #   (if that hasn't been already) and use that as the foreign key restriction. It's also possible 
+        #   to give it an entire string that is interpolated if you need a tighter scope than just a foreign key.
+        #   Example: <tt>acts_as_list :scope => 'todo_list_id = #{todo_list_id} AND completed = 0'</tt>
+        def acts_as_nested_set(options = {})
+          configuration = { :parent_column => "parent_id", :left_column => "lft", :right_column => "rgt", :scope => "1 = 1" }
+          
+          configuration.update(options) if options.is_a?(Hash)
+          
+          configuration[:scope] = "#{configuration[:scope]}_id".intern if configuration[:scope].is_a?(Symbol) && configuration[:scope].to_s !~ /_id$/
+          
+          if configuration[:scope].is_a?(Symbol)
+            scope_condition_method = %(
+              def scope_condition
+                if #{configuration[:scope].to_s}.nil?
+                  "#{configuration[:scope].to_s} IS NULL"
+                else
+                  "#{configuration[:scope].to_s} = \#{#{configuration[:scope].to_s}}"
+                end
+              end
+            )
+          else
+            scope_condition_method = "def scope_condition() \"#{configuration[:scope]}\" end"
+          end
+        
+          class_eval <<-EOV
+            include ActiveRecord::Acts::NestedSet::InstanceMethods
+
+            #{scope_condition_method}
+            
+            def left_col_name() "#{configuration[:left_column]}" end
+
+            def right_col_name() "#{configuration[:right_column]}" end
+              
+            def parent_column() "#{configuration[:parent_column]}" end
+
+          EOV
+        end
+      end
+      
+      module InstanceMethods
+        # Returns true is this is a root node.  
+        def root?
+          parent_id = self[parent_column]
+          (parent_id == 0 || parent_id.nil?) && (self[left_col_name] == 1) && (self[right_col_name] > self[left_col_name])
+        end                                                                                             
+                                    
+        # Returns true is this is a child node
+        def child?                          
+          parent_id = self[parent_column]
+          !(parent_id == 0 || parent_id.nil?) && (self[left_col_name] > 1) && (self[right_col_name] > self[left_col_name])
+        end     
+        
+        # Returns true if we have no idea what this is
+        def unknown?
+          !root? && !child?
+        end
+
+                     
+        # Added a child to this object in the tree.  If this object hasn't been initialized,
+        # it gets set up as a root node.  Otherwise, this method will update all of the
+        # other elements in the tree and shift them to the right. Keeping everything
+        # balanaced. 
+        def add_child( child )     
+          self.reload
+          child.reload
+
+          if child.root?
+            raise "Adding sub-tree isn\'t currently supported"
+          else
+            if ( (self[left_col_name] == nil) || (self[right_col_name] == nil) )
+              # Looks like we're now the root node!  Woo
+              self[left_col_name] = 1
+              self[right_col_name] = 4
+              
+              # What do to do about validation?
+              return nil unless self.save
+              
+              child[parent_column] = self.id
+              child[left_col_name] = 2
+              child[right_col_name]= 3
+              return child.save
+            else
+              # OK, we need to add and shift everything else to the right
+              child[parent_column] = self.id
+              right_bound = self[right_col_name]
+              child[left_col_name] = right_bound
+              child[right_col_name] = right_bound + 1
+              self[right_col_name] += 2
+              self.class.transaction {
+                self.class.update_all( "#{left_col_name} = (#{left_col_name} + 2)",  "#{scope_condition} AND #{left_col_name} >= #{right_bound}" )
+                self.class.update_all( "#{right_col_name} = (#{right_col_name} + 2)",  "#{scope_condition} AND #{right_col_name} >= #{right_bound}" )
+                self.save
+                child.save
+              }
+            end
+          end                                   
+        end
+                                   
+        # Returns the number of nested children of this object.
+        def children_count
+          return (self[right_col_name] - self[left_col_name] - 1)/2
+        end
+                                                               
+        # Returns a set of itself and all of it's nested children
+        def full_set
+          self.class.find_all( "#{scope_condition} AND (#{left_col_name} BETWEEN #{self[left_col_name]} and #{self[right_col_name]})" )
+        end
+                  
+        # Returns a set of all of it's children and nested children
+        def all_children
+          self.class.find_all( "#{scope_condition} AND (#{left_col_name} > #{self[left_col_name]}) and (#{right_col_name} < #{self[right_col_name]})" )
+        end
+                                  
+        # Returns a set of only this entries immediate children
+        def direct_children
+          self.class.find_all( "#{scope_condition} and #{parent_column} = #{self.id}")
+        end
+                                      
+        # Prunes a branch off of the tree, shifting all of the elements on the right
+        # back to the left so the counts still work.
+        def before_destroy
+          return if self[right_col_name].nil? || self[left_col_name].nil?
+          dif = self[right_col_name] - self[left_col_name] + 1
+
+          self.class.transaction {
+            self.class.delete_all( "#{scope_condition} and #{left_col_name} > #{self[left_col_name]} and #{right_col_name} < #{self[right_col_name]}" )
+            self.class.update_all( "#{left_col_name} = (#{left_col_name} - #{dif})",  "#{scope_condition} AND #{left_col_name} >= #{self[right_col_name]}" )
+            self.class.update_all( "#{right_col_name} = (#{right_col_name} - #{dif} )",  "#{scope_condition} AND #{right_col_name} >= #{self[right_col_name]}" )
+          }
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

activerecord/test/fixtures/mixin.rb

@@ -16,5 +16,23 @@ end
 class ListWithStringScopeMixin < ActiveRecord::Base
   acts_as_list :column => "pos", :scope => 'parent_id = #{parent_id}'
 
+  def self.table_name() "mixins" end
+end
+
+class NestedSet < Mixin
+  acts_as_nested_set :scope => "ROOT_ID IS NULL"
+  
+  def self.table_name() "mixins" end
+end
+
+class NestedSetWithStringScope < Mixin
+  acts_as_nested_set :scope => 'root_id = #{root_id}'
+  
+  def self.table_name() "mixins" end
+end
+
+class NestedSetWithSymbolScope < Mixin
+  acts_as_nested_set :scope => :root
+  
   def self.table_name() "mixins" end
 end

activerecord/test/fixtures/mixins.yml

@@ -28,3 +28,33 @@ list_<%= counter %>:
   type: ListMixin
   parent_id: 5
 <% end %>
+
+# Nested set mixins
+
+<% (1..10).each do |counter| %>  
+set_<%= counter %>:
+  id: <%= counter+3000 %>
+  type: NestedSet
+<% end %>
+
+# Big old set
+<%
+[[4001, 0, 1, 20],
+  [4002, 4001, 2, 7],
+  [4003, 4002, 3, 4],
+  [4004, 4002, 5, 6],
+  [4005, 4001, 8, 13],
+  [4006, 4005, 9, 10],
+  [4007, 4005, 11, 12],
+  [4008, 4001, 14, 19],
+  [4009, 4008, 15, 16],
+  [4010, 4008, 17, 18]].each do |set| %>
+tree_<%= set[0] %>:
+  id: <%= set[0]%>
+  parent_id: <%= set[1]%>
+  type: NestedSetWithStringScope
+  lft: <%= set[2]%>
+  rgt: <%= set[3]%>
+  root_id: 42
+
+<% end %>

activerecord/test/mixin_test.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'abstract_unit'
 require 'active_record/acts/tree'
 require 'active_record/acts/list'
+require 'active_record/acts/nested_set'
 require 'fixtures/mixin'
 
 class ListTest < Test::Unit::TestCase