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ActiveRecord from_xml (and from_json) part 2
This post is an upgrade to the previous post about the unmarshalling of XML and JSON strings into rails objects, with arbitrarily deep object associations. As you may know if you are reading this, there doesn’t seem to be a way in rails to reverse to_xml and to_json when associations are included.
Example usage:
xml = firm.to_xml [...]
Posted in programming, rails Tagged ActiveRecord, from_json, from_xml, rails, ruby on rails, unmarshall 3 Comments
ActiveRecord from_json and from_xml
Unless I’m missing something, the default rails from_json and from_xml methods don’t work with data that have associated objects. Here are routines that work for some simple examples I’ve tested. I placed this code in vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb within the ActiveRecord::Base class, but there might be a better place to put it.
def self.from_hash( hash )
h [...]
Posted in programming, rails Tagged ActiveRecord, from_json, from_xml, ruby on rails, to_json, to_xml 4 Comments
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