AWS and array of Model

Rails
1

Hi!

I try to use a layered webservice and I want to get back an array of
users;

In the API I use:
api_method :listUsers,:returns=>[[User]]

in the service:
def listUsers
User.find(:all)
end

Result in soap mode:

Don’t know how to cast TrueClass to Object

Result in XML-RPC mode:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.collect

It’s work on another machine. (Here is windows)
I tried to create another ampty project with Only this model, and only
one controller.

In controller used this code (the model is the default generated):
class UserAdminAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base
api_method :listUsers,:returns=>[[User]]
end

class UserAdminService < ActionWebService::Base
web_service_api UserAdminAPI

def listUsers
    User.find(:all)
end

end

class AdminController < ApplicationController
wsdl_service_name ‘Admin’
web_service_dispatching_mode :delegated
web_service_scaffold :invoke
web_service(:user) { UserAdminService.new }
end

What’s the problem? (If I change the return variable to :string and I in
the implementation I use YAML.dump User.find(:all). It’s get back the
value.

the flul log: http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/PNmYct37.html

Cow

2

Yeah, I have a very similar problem. I want my webservice to return say
a Person object, but when I invoke the method through SOAP I get “Don’t
know how to cast FalseClass to Object”, and through XML-RPC I get a
whiney NULL error.

I have used the exact example from the Agile Rails book … have you
managed to solve your problem yet?

Joerg

P.S. It all works fine if my methods return integers or strings.

Háber János wrote:

Hi!

I try to use a layered webservice and I want to get back an array of
users;

In the API I use:
api_method :listUsers,:returns=>[[User]]

in the service:
def listUsers
User.find(:all)
end

Result in soap mode:

Don’t know how to cast TrueClass to Object

Result in XML-RPC mode:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.collect

It’s work on another machine. (Here is windows)
I tried to create another ampty project with Only this model, and only
one controller.

In controller used this code (the model is the default generated):
class UserAdminAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base
api_method :listUsers,:returns=>[[User]]
end

class UserAdminService < ActionWebService::Base
web_service_api UserAdminAPI

def listUsers
    User.find(:all)
end

end

class AdminController < ApplicationController
wsdl_service_name ‘Admin’
web_service_dispatching_mode :delegated
web_service_scaffold :invoke
web_service(:user) { UserAdminService.new }
end

What’s the problem? (If I change the return variable to :string and I in
the implementation I use YAML.dump User.find(:all). It’s get back the
value.

the flul log: http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/PNmYct37.html

Cow

3

Hi!

I think you are use postgresql or other database which have real boolean
type (mysql boolean type is an alias to int(1)). And the Webservice
can’t cast this type to primitive.

Cow

Joerg D. írta:

4

I am using MySql, and don’t have any booleans either … but I’ll see if
it can have anything to do with my table columns. But at the moment
(well, the past few days) it looks like a bug to me in Rails.

5

Hi!

I think the deleted is the problem. Rails automatically convert the
“deleted” field to boolean. because WS can’t convert boolean to Object
so you can get the TrueClass can’t convert error.
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoUseBooleanColumns

So the Rails is buggy…

Cow

Joerg D. írta:

6

Right. If I return a User object from my AWS, everything is cool when I
use XML-RPC (SOAP gives me an error: Cannot map User to SOAP/OM.).

However, if I return a Brand object from my AWS, I get the errors
mentioned in the first email of this thread.

I can’t see a difference though in these tables that would cause this
differing behaviour. I have added a tinyint(1) and a text field to User,
and it still works with those fields.

Perhaps I am using field names that I shouldn’t?

CREATE TABLE users (
id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
type varchar(20) default NULL,
username varchar(50) NOT NULL default ‘’,
name varchar(50) NOT NULL default ‘’,
parent_id int(11) default NULL,
email varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’,
updated_on datetime default NULL,
created_on datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE brands (
id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
name varchar(100) NOT NULL default ‘’,
abbreviation varchar(11) NOT NULL default ‘’,
description text NOT NULL,
image varchar(100) default NULL,
image_timestamp datetime default NULL,
position int(11) default NULL,
deleted tinyint(1) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

7

Yeah that was it. Thanks.