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This is super cool.

Just like I can post a form to my controller and have it deserialize
into a ruby object, I can also post xml to my controller and it
deserialize into my ruby object. And all I had to do was set the
appropriate content-type.

Wow.

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Yes. This is cool, and it is funny because I just created an account
with ruby-forum for the sole purpose of finding out how this is done
under the hood, and your post is the latest in the list as of this…

I imagine you are doing some REST development like I am.

Can someone please explain to me or point me in the right direction why

$ curl -X POST -H ‘Content-Type: application/xml’ -d
‘
true
Bar
Foo
’ http://localhost:3000/projects

(notice the content-type explicitly set) serializes the XML into a Hash
while a standard post does not? The magic is too mind-boggling for me to
grok…

John W.

eggie5 wrote:

This is super cool.

Just like I can post a form to my controller and have it deserialize
into a ruby object, I can also post xml to my controller and it
deserialize into my ruby object. And all I had to do was set the
appropriate content-type.

Wow.

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Hi,

Yeah, I’m working on a REST API.

I’m still in awe about how it was just handled automatically… I
figured that AT LEAST, somewhere down the line, I’d have to call
MyObject.new.from_xml… but no…

This is the example I give with curl:

curl -H “Content-Type: text/xml” -d “big traffic jam</
name><category_id>1</category_id>this is the message subject</
subject>this is the message body”
http://services.tapiocawireless.com/campaigns

What do you mean by ‘standard post’?

On Oct 7, 8:23 pm, John W. [email protected]