Description
When using :expose and specifying the exposure as safe: true, objects of the type Hash seem to never get exposed. It does not matter whether the Hash contains a key that matches the attribute.
If i mark the :exposewith safe: false, the response does show the value of the Hash, but of course only as long as the Hash has such a key.
A quick lookup in the source showed me the valid_exposure? method in the entity.rb (around line 570) to be the issue. This is the current check:
(nested_exposures.any? && nested_exposures.all? { |a, o| valid_exposure?(a, o) }) || \
exposure_options.key?(:proc) || \
!exposure_options[:safe] || \
object.respond_to?(self.class.name_for(attribute))
What I don't understand (I'm quite new to ruby and especially grape) is the third line, which actually says that safe exposures are not valid, unless they have nested elements or have a :proc block.
Nevertheless, similar to the fourth line, which checks for a method matching the attribute's name, I would have added a fifth condition that checks if the object is a Hash and does have a key matching the attribute's name:
object.is_a?(Hash) && object.key?(self.class.name_for(attribute))
This would resolve my issue and be more in line with the implementation of the primary output of the serializable_hash method, which does resolve the values of Hash objects.
Can s.o. please verify my issue?
Thank you all!