Support for {root: false}

[einarj]

First of all, thanks for an awesome project.

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When I render with plain active model serializers with

render :json => @events, root: false

It produces an array of objects.

However when I put postgres_ext-serializers in place, it returns

{"events": [same array as before]}

In other words, the option of removing the root does not seem to be working.

[danmcclain]

Thanks for reporting this! This project is far from done at the moment, so this is one of the options yet to be implemented. I guess that is "by design" so far, but realistically, it just needs to be added in!

[BenMorganIO]

Currently experiencing this issue. 👍 If we can get it in.

[felixbuenemann]

This shouldn't be too hard to add for the embed :ids case or if no associations are present. I looked at the original AMS implementation and it only support root: false if sideloading is not used. Otherwise an error is raised:

ActiveModel::Serializer::IncludeError: Cannot serialize foos when FooSerializer does not have a root!

This can be worked around by forcibly excluding all embedded records using the include: [] option.

Supporting embed: :objects would probably be much harder, because I think it can embed objects recursively, which would require quite some changes in the postgres code.