Could you describe in more details the use case and what class you need to get?

Thanks for your reply,

I'm looking to use a token for my devise authentication on rails,

We use dynamoid ORM on the API, so I tried using the Tiddle gem which supports multiple devices per user with it.

It turned out that it doesn't have support for dynamoid, as it showed

"Cannot determine authentication token class, unsupported ORM/ODM?"

So I tried to trace to the error,

it was here https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle/blob/master/lib/tiddle/token_issuer.rb#L55

I tried getting the association class for Dynamoid from rails console, it doesn't work

if resource.respond_to?(:associations) # this returns true/false for Dynamoid, It returned true in rails console
resource.associations[:authentication_tokens] # for this klass didn't work, but it returned {type: has_many} in rails console
end

Here is what my model looks like

class User
include Dynamoid::Document

devise :database_authenticatable,
:registerable,
:recoverable,
:token_authenticatable

has_many :authentication_tokens

end

class AuthenticationToken
include Dynamoid::Document

belongs_to :user

end

Here is an example of an active_record implementation.

https://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Reflection/AssociationReflection/klass

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :books
end

Author.reflect_on_association(:books).klass

=> Book # it's expected to return the target association's class

How can I achieve this in dynamoid?

Here is a fork of the gem with my adaptations for dynamoid.

https://github.com/querldox5/tiddle

There is no public interface to get associated model class but such logic is implemented here:

      def target_class
        options[:class] || target_class_name.constantize
      end

You can find examples of usage in specs:

  it 'determins target class correctly' do
    expect(magazine.subscriptions.send(:target_class)).to eq Subscription
    expect(user.books.send(:target_class)).to eq Magazine
  end

To use this private method you need to have an instance of User class. There is an option to avoid it and instantiate association object itself and call target_class method on it (source):

Dynamoid::Associations.const_get(type.to_s.camelcase).new(nil, name, options)