Rails - Jun 2008 - Best respond_to design practice

Hi All,

I am in the middle of building a web service using the standard:

    # Return the appropriate response based on the type
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { render :layout => ''some layout'' }
      format.xml  { render :xml => @data.to_xml }
    end

My question is the following possible...

I''d like to insert some custom XML tags before all object.to_xml data
which are returned by the web service. For example:

<result></result> - contains a numeric result code
<result_msg></result_msg> - contains result string
followed by the object to XML data

Is this possible?

Also, can you filter out specific fields from the response XML?

Thanks,
Rick
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From the API,
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html

"Builds an XML document to represent the model. Some configuration is  
availble through options, however more complicated cases should use  
override ActiveRecord‘s to_xml."

This should get you started.

best.
mike

On Jun 13, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Rick Fiorentino wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am in the middle of building a web service using the standard:
>
>    # Return the appropriate response based on the type
>    respond_to do |format|
>      format.html { render :layout => ''some layout'' }
>      format.xml  { render :xml => @data.to_xml }
>    end
>
> My question is the following possible...
>
> I''d like to insert some custom XML tags before all object.to_xml
data
> which are returned by the web service. For example:
>
> <result></result> - contains a numeric result code
> <result_msg></result_msg> - contains result string
> followed by the object to XML data
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Also, can you filter out specific fields from the response XML?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >

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