Rails - Jan 2006 - AWS and passing in a Model

Hi,

I have a webservice. And I want to pass in, a model.
So, for example:

api_method :save_person, :expects => [Person]

When I do this I get an error saying that I cannot have ActiveRecord 
objects as parameters. Fine. I can have AWS Structs as parameters. I 
don''t want to start ''maintaining'' a struct everytime
I change the table
structure od Persons.

So, is there an elegant way to ''port'' my ActiveRecod Person to
my Struct
Person, or, is there another way to make use of my ActiveRecord Person 
to be able to pass it in as a parameter to my webservice method?

Thanks
Joerg

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Joerg,

Try this:
ActionWebService::API::Base.allow_active_record_expects = true

The reason for the option is in the CHANGELOG for ActionWebService:
Add ActionWebService::API::Base.allow_active_record_expects option,
with a default of false. Setting this to true will allow specifying
ActiveRecord::Base model classes in :expects. API writers should take
care to validate the received ActiveRecord model objects when turning
it on, and/or have an authentication mechanism in place to reduce the
security risk.


Cody



On 1/20/06, Joerg Diekmann <joergd@pobox.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a webservice. And I want to pass in, a model.
> So, for example:
>
> api_method :save_person, :expects => [Person]
>
> When I do this I get an error saying that I cannot have ActiveRecord
> objects as parameters. Fine. I can have AWS Structs as parameters. I
> don''t want to start ''maintaining'' a struct
everytime I change the table
> structure od Persons.
>
> So, is there an elegant way to ''port'' my ActiveRecod
Person to my Struct
> Person, or, is there another way to make use of my ActiveRecord Person
> to be able to pass it in as a parameter to my webservice method?
>
> Thanks
> Joerg
>
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Ah great - thanks for your help.

Cody Fauser wrote:
> Joerg,
> 
> Try this:
> ActionWebService::API::Base.allow_active_record_expects = true
> 
> The reason for the option is in the CHANGELOG for ActionWebService:
> Add ActionWebService::API::Base.allow_active_record_expects option,
> with a default of false. Setting this to true will allow specifying
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