ActiveResource as API test rig?

Marc Byrd
Wed, 20 May 2009 22:57:49 -0000

Hi,

I''m using ActiveResource as an API test rig for an API we''re
developing for
our PHP app - the goal being to validate that we''re following some
externally validated conventions for ReSTful API and that we can support at
least one external framework.  ;^)  I''m open to opinions on the wisdom
of
this approach.

Meanwhile, I''m getting some strange behavior when running from command
line
vs. running w/in rails:

First, from command line:
require ''rubygems''
require ''activesupport''
require ''activeresource''

class Channel < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = "http://192.168.1.101/"
  self.format = :json
end

c = Channel.find(:all , :params => {:owner => "iamwill"})

Result is:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/json/decoding.rb:14:in
`decode'': Invalid JSON string (ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError)
    from
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.3.2/lib/active_resource/formats/json_format.rb:19:in
`decode''
    from
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.3.2/lib/active_resource/connection.rb:116:in
`get''
    from
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.3.2/lib/active_resource/base.rb:576:in
`find_every''
    from
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.3.2/lib/active_resource/base.rb:519:in
`find''
    from channels.rb:10

But when I run from rails, it parses no problem.

I gave the rails version malformed json to cause it to choke to figure out
the difference:

vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/decoding.rb:14:in
`decode''


Is it possible to coerce the non-rails version to use the rails json
parser?  Why are there two different versions?

Thanks,


m

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