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sbwoodside

ActiveRecord::Serialization class method from_xml handles arrays and singleton XML instances

Reported by sbwoodside | September 2nd, 2009 @ 04:38 AM

I wanted a from_xml method for ActiveRecord that would be able to import data from XML that contained an array of objects as well as just a single object. Also, this should be a class method so it would instantiate the objects for me. The Gist at http://gist.github.com/179530 has my implementation. Is this worth submitting?

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  • sbwoodside

    sbwoodside September 2nd, 2009 @ 09:48 PM

      module ActiveRecord::Serialization
    def self.from_xml(xml)
      the_class = Hash.from_xml(xml).keys.first.singularize.camelize.constantize # singularize does nothing if already singular
      array_or_hash = Hash.from_xml(xml).values.first
      array_or_hash.class == Array ? array_or_hash.map { |hash| the_class.new( hash ) } : the_class.new( array_or_hash )
    end
  end
  • Rohit Arondekar

    Rohit Arondekar October 6th, 2010 @ 06:43 AM

    • State changed from “new” to “stale”
    • Importance changed from “” to “”

    Marking ticket as stale. If this is still an issue please leave a comment with suggested changes, creating a patch with tests, rebasing an existing patch or just confirming the issue on a latest release or master/branches.

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