ruby链式调用安全符号(&.)

2019-10-18

ruby

Ruby-2.3.0版本添加安全操作符&, 其实我们之前可能是用try处理这种安全调用，但毕竟try是依赖Rails的ActiveSupport Module，&与try之间还是有些区别的;

使用场景

在代码中我们防止nil对象调用报错，我们一般会使用下面这样的逻辑判断来避免错误

if account && account.owner && account.owner.address
...
end

如果我们includes ActiveSupport我们会这样调用、

if account.try(:owner).try(:address)
...
end

使用&符号

account&.owner&.address

其实&与try区别在于&前面方法返回nil就会终止链式调用, try则是检测最后的方法是否存在如果不存在就返回nil

account = Account.new(owner: Object.new)
account.owner.address
# => NoMethodError: undefined method `address' for #<Object:0x00559996b5bde8>

account && account.owner && account.owner.address
# => NoMethodError: undefined method `address' for #<Object:0x00559996b5bde8>`

account.try(:owner).try(:address)
# => nil

account&.owner&.address
# => NoMethodError: undefined method `address' for #<Object:0x00559996b5bde8>`