similar to: Harmonizing JSON/XML serialization

Hi everyone, I''m writing a lightweight AJAX application using Rails on the server side as a RESTful web service provider. I need the web service to support both JSON and XML I/O. Outputting data in XML and JSON is easy (using to_xml and to_json), and it''s also easy to do XML input as Rails does it for you automatically. Is it possible to somehow have the same automatic parsing

Hi, In short: I can do following: user.to_xml(:root => "xml_user" ) But not following: user.to_json(:root => "json_user") JSON serializer for AR doesn''t allow us to specify "root" option unlike XML serializer. JSON serializer always uses model name as the root if class attribute include_root_in_json is set to true. I''ve added a patch which

This is a small, straightforward patch that I''d love to see merged: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/4358-patch-add-root-option-to-activemodel-json-serialization It''s all pretty self-explanatory, it basically just ports a useful option from to_xml to to_json, making their interfaces more compatible with each other. Feedback would be greatly

Hi, to serialize an array to xml we can use: an_array = [ 1, 2, 3] an_array.to_xml But to I can''t find a way to convert back XML to array. I didn''t find a method Array.from_xml like Hash.from_xml. Any ideas? Thanks, Gustavo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email

I''d really like to see just 2 more functional changes to the JSON serialization/encoding before we get to Rails 2.0. First, and I think this is really crucial because without it all the efforts to output JSON from ActiveRecord objects would have been half in vain, is to allow us to do this in controllers: @authors = Author.find(:all) render :json => @authors.to_json(:only =>

Hi, I am trying to convert a hash to JSON using ActiveSupports built in .to_json. I am doing similar to the example below but are there certain strings that could go in place of ''bar'' or ''rez'' that will break the to_json method? I am using a very long string from rjs output in place of ''bar''. Perhaps .to_json is not ready yet? Thanks, Peter

Hi, I''m using Rails 2.1.2. and I wanted to switch ActiveResource format to JSON and thought that it will work smoothly, but unfortunately it wasn''t the case. XML and JSON formats generate different objects: XML version #<User:0xb7658440 @prefix_options={}, @attributes={"created_at"=>Mon Nov 28 11...}> JSON version #<User:0xb746af5c @prefix_options={},

Title: Nested serialization with to_json and to_xml with array and hash element class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address has_one :job def office() return "Executive_Suite" end end class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end class Job < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person has_one :paygrade def Title return "Engineer" end end

I''m trying to write a helper method similar to attr_accessible but instead it will be used to whitelist which attributes are available for serialization (attr_serializable). My first attempt at this was to override serialized_hash and modify the :only option to include nothing but serializable attributes. I''m facing a problem when nested models are ''included''

Hey there I was scratching my head over why my application breaks when I run on a local server but works on my remote server. It turns out that my local server is Rails 2.0.2 and my remote server is 1.2.3 and I expect the tag "attributes" to be passed with a json stream, before parsing. Unfortunately, this was dropped in 2.0.2. Is there any documentation on this? Any way to get it back?

Please check out this ticket (which would explain almost everything): http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8762 So basically, Rails to_json methods produces invalid JSON out of the box as it doesn''t quote all hash keys. This is valid JSON: { "id": 6589, "code": "SIN", "name": "Singapore" } This is not (Rails'' JSON encoders

How they differ? Does the to_xml method of the classes array/hash/object is based on ROXML lib? As I see in http://roxml.rubyforge.org/#quickstart, roxml needs we define the class (class Book in the guide) before to convert a object to xml. Moreover, the method to_xml (when not using "include ROXML") just accepts any existing object, what is much suitable. I need to compare and tranfer

Hi did anyone used format.json before.. If so pls, do let me know how to use it.... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To

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

Hi all, I''m working on a Backbone.js single page app with Rails 3.1, and in an attempt to save on HTTP requests, I want to embed initial data set in a HTML document that is sent back to the browser after successful login. I was thinking I can simply convert my ruby object to JSON, then HTML escape resulting string of JSON, and then use that as a value for JavaScript variable. Something

I am looking at rails edge source code. I am able to do puts User.find.to_yaml However I am not able to find piece of code where ''def to_yaml'' is. How this to_yaml serialization is working? can fully understand how to_json and to_xml is working but to_yaml beats me. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

I tried to implement the "Rendering JSON in actions" example from http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoGenerateJSON : @headers["Content-Type"] = "text/plain; charset=utf-8" data = { :foo => ''bar'', :etc => ''rez'' } render :text => data.to_json When I try to decode this in javascript with

Hi, Attached are links to two patches I submitted via the RoR Trac system a week or so ago: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8305 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8308 I refrained from creating a new Trac ticket for ARes, which will be affected if both of these patches are accepted by Core. There are a couple of workarounds for this issue, but it would be nice for AR, AS and ARes to output

I''m using [acts_as_commentable_with_threading](http://github.com/elight/acts_as_commentable_with_threading/), and it worked fine until I tried to overwrite the to_json function to include more details about the associated user. Here''s part of the comment class (which was originally defined in the plugin, but I moved it to the models folder, a move which seems not to affect the

Hi I''m using Mongoid and Rails 3, and I want to serialize one of my mongoid documents to json for publishing via a controller, e.g. class ReportController < ApplicationController respond_to :json def show report = Report.where(:report_id => params[:id]).first respond_with report end end This works ok, but pushes out every attribute on the document