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Matthew Moore

ActiveResource::CustomMethods#put should behave like #post for body encoding

Reported by Matthew Moore | January 9th, 2009 @ 09:27 AM | in 3.x

If you compare the two methods in ActiveResrouce::CustomMethods, you see:



      def post(method_name, options = {}, body = nil)
        request_body = body.blank? ? encode : body
        if new?
          connection.post(custom_method_new_element_url(method_name, options), request_body, self.class.headers)
        else
          connection.post(custom_method_element_url(method_name, options), request_body, self.class.headers)
        end
      end

      def put(method_name, options = {}, body = '')
        connection.put(custom_method_element_url(method_name, options), body, self.class.headers)
      end

I can't figure out for the life of me why the post method has


request_body = body.blank? ? encode : body

but put doesn't.

Should I add that line to put?

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Ryan Bigg

    Ryan Bigg April 11th, 2010 @ 02:51 AM

    Could you please make a test case & patch for this?

  • Jeremy Kemper

    Jeremy Kemper May 4th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM

    • Milestone changed from 2.x to 3.x
  • Dan Pickett

    Dan Pickett May 9th, 2010 @ 06:15 PM

    • Tag changed from activeresource, custommethods to activeresource, bugmash, custommethods
  • Jeff Kreeftmeijer

    Jeff Kreeftmeijer October 19th, 2010 @ 07:09 AM

    • Tag cleared.
    • Importance changed from “” to “Low”

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  • 2kan

    2kan February 3rd, 2011 @ 10:52 AM

    It is simple. This methods are designed (as I understand) to invoke REST methods. For example you can use post method to create a new object. And you can not to pass a body with new object data as argument, but just call a post method on a new object like it is done in test_custom_new_element_method (custom_method_test.rb): ryan.post(:register)

    Encode will just serialize ryan object into some appropriate representation and passe it to the post method as a param like you just have submitted a form.

    But since this designed to invoke REST methods you can't use put for creating a new object and if you don't send a body it means that you don't want to send a body so encode is not needed here in the put method.

    So I think this ticket should be closed.

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