Howdy All,
I am trying to implement a fairly simple REST controller which I am then interfacing with ActiveResource. The problem I am having is when the validation fails, the errors are not being returned to the model on the ActiveResource style in a way I can access.
I am running Rails 2.3.4 on both sides of the application. The code I have in my controller for the 'update' method is as follows:
def update @credit_card = CreditCard.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format| if @credit_card.update_attributes(params[:credit_card]) flash[:notice] = 'CreditCard was successfully updated.' format.html { redirect_to(@credit_card) } format.xml { head :ok } else logger.debug(@credit_card.errors.to_xml) format.html { render :action => "edit" } format.xml { render :xml => @credit_card.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } end end end
The most notable part is the "format.xml { render :xml => @credit_card.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }".
I checked with the logger.debug the XML is being generated and looks reasonable to me. The XML I am seeing is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <errors> <error>Card expiry year must be greater than or equal to 9</error> </errors>
I have checked this seems to return OK, what I have noticed is when we compare to the ActiveResource documentation, there is no "type=array" evident.
ActiveResource::Base example of an error return: <errors type="array"><error>First cannot be empty</error></errors>
I also found the following bug report; http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8872
Which seems to describe this problem (lack of tyoe=array) but has stalled and the posted "fix" does not work.
Additionally I tested this by doing a simple return with the example code; format.xml { render :xml => '<errors type="array"><error>First cannot be empty</error></errors>', :status => :unprocessable_entity }
However my object still shows an empty errors array: --- &id001 !ruby/object:ActiveResource::Errors base: !ruby/object:CreditCard attributes: <cut> errors: *id001 prefix_options: {}
errors: {}
Was hoping to be pointed to either an example of someone else doing this successfully or some more in depth information on what I've done wrong. Either is fine!
Appreciate your time.
Best Regards, Trent