Comments on: Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs: Part 2

By: Amitava

Amitava — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:47:21 +0000

Does it also work with Nokogiri as XmlMini.backend? I have a xml builder that contains cdata sections and when converted to json or yaml the content wrapped within cdata is returned as '#cdata_section'. JSON:


{"items": {"item": [{"title": {"#cdata_section": null}, "id": "2", "description": {"#cdata_section": null}}, {"title": {"#cdata_section": null}, "id": "4", "description": {"#cdata_section": null}}]}}

YAML:


--- 
items: 
  item: 
  - title: 
      "#cdata_section": 
    id: "2"
    description: 
      "#cdata_section": 
  - title: 
      "#cdata_section": 
    id: "4"
    description: 
      "#cdata_section":

By: Chris Heald

Chris Heald — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:19:07 +0000

The biggest improvement is that the method signature is forward-compatible. It works beautifully with Rails 2.2 and 2.3, which is nice, of course.

I added the as_json and as_yaml options as well, which make for easy output of things like record errors in their pre-existing #to_xml format.

I haven’t tried using rfeedparser, but from reading up on it, it seems that the latest versions expect libxml-ruby, so stuff should work fine. What problems have you run into?

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:13:43 +0000

Thanks Chris for this! I used the last version… what are the improvments with this one?

Also, I have tried to switch to libxml and faster_xml_simple … however, this gems just don’t work with rfeedparser gem, that we need to use in our apps. Any tips here?