Rails - Jan 2008 - howto rebuild a object from a received xml hash structure ?

im my web server app , i have an action to be used as a REST web
service

  # GET /user/membership.xml?email=emailaddress
  def membership
    @user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])
    respond_to do |format|
      format.xml  { render :xml => @user.to_xml( :only =>
[ :first_name, :last_name, :display_name, :membership_type, :membership_at],
:skip_types
=> true)}
    end
  end

my client web app get it :

    @referee = Referee.new(params[:referee])
    url = "http://#{WWW_HOST}/user/membership.xml?
email=#{params[:referee][:email]}"
    result = Net::HTTP.get(URI(url))
    data = XmlSimple.xml_in(result)

------------  GOT IT BACK
data
=> {"last-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}],
"display-name"=>["chane850"],
"first-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}],
"membership-
at"=>["2007-03-28T21:25:31Z"]}


how can I rebuild a membership object (not active record) from it, to
reuse it late
@membership = Membership.new
@membership.last_name = data ????  that''s the question !!!!
....

thanks for your lights


Erwin

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have you tried using the magic of activeresource (the web services bit
not just the nice routes and helpers)

try this link for starters. It''s a little out of date, but
activeresource has just got a whole lot better
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/3/14/rest-activeresource

You should be able to just make a class that inherits from
ActiveResource::Base and it will interface nicely with your web server
app.

Joe


On Jan 8, 5:41 pm, Erwin <yves_duf...-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> im my web server app , i have an action to be used as a REST web
> service
>
>   # GET /user/membership.xml?email=emailaddress
>   def membership
>     @user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])
>     respond_to do |format|
>       format.xml  { render :xml => @user.to_xml( :only =>
> [ :first_name, :last_name, :display_name, :membership_type,
:membership_at], :skip_types
> => true)}
>     end
>   end
>
> my client web app get it :
>
>     @referee = Referee.new(params[:referee])
>     url = "http://#{WWW_HOST}/user/membership.xml?
> email=#{params[:referee][:email]}"
>     result = Net::HTTP.get(URI(url))
>     data = XmlSimple.xml_in(result)
>
> ------------  GOT IT BACK
> data
> => {"last-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}],
"display-name"=>["chane850"],
> "first-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}],
"membership-
> at"=>["2007-03-28T21:25:31Z"]}
>
> how can I rebuild a membership object (not active record) from it, to
> reuse it late
> @membership = Membership.new
> @membership.last_name = data ????  that''s the question !!!!
> ....
>
> thanks for your lights
>
> Erwin
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