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  1. Mongoid
  2. MONGOID-4961

AmbiguousRelationship for belongs_to with inverse_of: nil

    • Type: Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • Affects Version/s: 7.1.2
    • Component/s: Associations
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      I have two models that are defined as follows.

      class User
        include Mongoid::Document
         has_many :offers, class_name: 'Offer', inverse_of: :buyer
         has_many :cobuyer_offers, class_name: 'Offer', inverse_of: :cobuyer
      end
      
      class Offer
        include Mongoid::Document
          belongs_to :buyer,  class_name: "User", inverse_of: :offers
          belongs_to :cobuyer, class_name: "User", inverse_of: :cobuyer_offers
          belongs_to :modifier, class_name: "User", inverse_of: nil
      end
      
      Offer.create!(buyer:User.new,cobuyer:User.new,modifier:User.new)
      
      

      When setting modifier on Offer, it throws the following error:

       Ambiguous associations #<Mongoid::Association::Referenced::HasMany:0x00007fe4e13faac0 @owner_class=User, @name=:offers, @options={:class_name=>"Offer", :inverse_of=>:buyer}, @extension=nil, @module_path="", @polymorphic=false, @validate=true, @class_name="Offer", @primary_key="_id", @klass=Offer, @default_foreign_key_field="buyer_id", @foreign_key="buyer_id">, #<Mongoid::Association::Referenced::HasMany:0x00007fe4e1407748 @owner_class=User, @name=:cobuyer_offers, @options={:class_name=>"Offer", :inverse_of=>:cobuyer}, @extension=nil, @module_path="", @polymorphic=false, @validate=true, @class_name="Offer", @primary_key="_id", @klass=Offer, @default_foreign_key_field="cobuyer_id", @foreign_key="cobuyer_id"> defined on User.
      summary:
        When Mongoid attempts to set an inverse document of an association in memory, it needs to know which association it belongs to. When setting :modifier, Mongoid looked on the class Offer for a matching association, but multiples were found that could potentially match: #<Mongoid::Association::Referenced::HasMany:0x00007fe4e13faac0 @owner_class=User, @name=:offers, @options={:class_name=>"Offer", :inverse_of=>:buyer}, @extension=nil, @module_path="", @polymorphic=false, @validate=true, @class_name="Offer", @primary_key="_id", @klass=Offer, @default_foreign_key_field="buyer_id", @foreign_key="buyer_id">, #<Mongoid::Association::Referenced::HasMany:0x00007fe4e1407748 @owner_class=User, @name=:cobuyer_offers, @options={:class_name=>"Offer", :inverse_of=>:cobuyer}, @extension=nil, @module_path="", @polymorphic=false, @validate=true, @class_name="Offer", @primary_key="_id", @klass=Offer, @default_foreign_key_field="cobuyer_id", @foreign_key="cobuyer_id">.
      resolution:
        On the :modifier association on Offer you must add an :inverse_of option to specify the exact association on User that is the opposite of :modifier.
      

      It seems to me that the modifier relation should not throw an ambiguous relationship error because it has inverse_of set to nil.

            Assignee:
            neil.shweky@mongodb.com Neil Shweky (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            elliot@openlistings.com Elliot Hursh
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