Rails - Feb 2010 - Advanced use of to_xml and to_json

Hello,

I''m working on a Rails app which has a REST API. I manage two formats
JSON and XML.
Very often to simplify the use if the API, I''m making includes. But
when
you add params to to_json and to_xml like :only, :except, it''s not only
applied on the root object but on all the objects included.

Do you know libs or methods to answer to these different problems:
* Tell never return a user password in the API
* Tell always include a relationship or a method in each user serialized
in the API
* Serialize objects depending on context. For exemple, when a user ask
for the user list, he should see its complete profile, a partial profile
of its friends and just the name of others...
* Don''t have to copy paste the parameters for xml and json

Thank you very much,
Camille Roux
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Hi Camille,

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 17:15 +0100, Camille Roux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I''m working on a Rails app which has a REST API. I manage two
formats
> JSON and XML.
> Very often to simplify the use if the API, I''m making includes.
But when
> you add params to to_json and to_xml like :only, :except, it''s not
only
> applied on the root object but on all the objects included.
I use Builder when the to_xml method is not flexible enough.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Builder/XmlMarkup.html

For json, there is no current equivalent AFAIK, but googling ''rails
builder json'' gave some trails to follow.

HTH,
Bill

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