Identity metadata about layer-ruby

[benedikt]

Hi @beamercola!

Thanks so much for getting in touch. It is possible to update metadata on identity objects. I'm not quite sure why it doesn't work for you, though. Can you please share the code snippet you use to update the metadata?

Cheers,

Benedikt

[beamercola]

Great thanks!

So by default identity.metadata returns nil
so setting identity.metadata = {a: "b"}; identity.save

It sounds like it's writing the whole metadata object and not patching existing?

Thanks again, lemme know if there's anything else I can provide

[beamercola]

Keep messing with it and can't seem to find anything that works

[benedikt]

@beamercola You're right. It's a bug. I'll see what I can do to fix it.

[benedikt]

Hi @beamercola,

I just pushed a potential fix to the identity-metadata branch. Can you please check if it fixes your issue?

Use this line in your Gemfile to use the version from the branch:

gem 'layer-ruby', github: 'benedikt/layer-ruby', branch: 'identity-metadata'

Afterwards, these operations should work as expected:

identity.metadata = { foo: 'bar' }
identity.metadata['bar'] = 'baz'

Replacing the whole object will not work, though. I changed the #metadata= setter to simply set all key value pairs on the existing metadata object.

Please let me know if this fixes your issues.

[beamercola]

Works great! You're the most attentive developer out there - keep up the awesome work.

Thank you.

[benedikt]

Thank you, @beamercola 😄

I just released this fix as v0.7.2 on RubyGems. So you can now switch back to loading the gem from there.