I am using ActiveResource to access a RESTfull WebService exposing LDAP[1] resources through the usage of ActiveLdap[2].
LDAP attributes[3] could be multivalued and some of them are often (objectClass or email as an example).
The ActiveLdap object represents this values as an array:
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>> u.find('Baptiste Grenier')
>> u.mail
=> ["plop@plop.org", "toglut@toglut.org"]
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I have contacted[4] the helpful ActiveLdap team in order to change the xml outputed by the to_xml method, and here is an extract of what the to_xml now produces:
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cn=Baptiste Grenier,ou=people,dc=plop,dc=org
plop@plop.org
toglut@toglut.org
hgPerson
inetOrgPerson
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But this does not make things works better with ActiveResource, as when I try to create a ActiveResource object from this resource, I get this error:
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>> u = User.find('50')
ArgumentError: expected an attributes Hash, got "plop@plop.org"
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:883:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:639:in `initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:890:in `new'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:890:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:890:in `map'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:890:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:885:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:885:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:639:in `initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:587:in `new'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:587:in `instantiate_record'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:579:in `find_single'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-2.1.0/lib/active_resource/base.rb:507:in `find'
from (irb):13
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Perhaps if ActiveResource could be aware of a multivalued type (used in the to_xml like the array type) and then create an attribute as an array, it could be possible to handle such a situation.
Thanks for any help,
Baptiste
Ref:
[1]- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2251
[2]- http://code.google.com/p/ruby-ac...
[3]- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc22....2.1
[4]- http://code.google.com/p/ruby-ac...
