Associations & Web Services

Rails
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Hi all-

I am attempting to build a web service that supplies an array of
messages, each of which belongs to a user (belongs_to :user). Thus far
in my web service, I am only able to return the user_id, not
information about the user (e.g. username). Is it possible to follow
associations in my Message object to return a structure that includes
information on the messages and its author?

Thanks,
Josh

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On 12/13/06, Josh [email protected] wrote:

Hi all-

I am attempting to build a web service that supplies an array of
messages, each of which belongs to a user (belongs_to :user). Thus far
in my web service, I am only able to return the user_id, not
information about the user (e.g. username). Is it possible to follow
associations in my Message object to return a structure that includes
information on the messages and its author?

Nope.

–
Kent

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On 12/13/06, Josh [email protected] wrote:

Hi all-

I am attempting to build a web service that supplies an array of
messages, each of which belongs to a user (belongs_to :user). Thus far
in my web service, I am only able to return the user_id, not
information about the user (e.g. username). Is it possible to follow
associations in my Message object to return a structure that includes
information on the messages and its author?

Not directly. I would do a query on the users table using a custom
join on the messages table, and return the result as an array of
struct’s.

Chris

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Where do I define the struct? Would this be included in the Rails
app/models directory or would I include it as part of a module in the
lib directory?

Thanks.