Hello, I am using ActiveResource to integrate with a 3rd party service. when calling MyModel.save a POST with xml is sent. I need to make sure that xml is created with defined order of elements. How can I do that? Some have suggested using rxml or builder, but I am not sure how. Has anyone done this before?
thank you
I'm not sure what you mean by order, but if you are working with a list of items you can order the array and the to_xml will reflect that. Otherwise if by order you mean having different xml blocks in a post request then use a hash. The order in which the items are contained within the xml won't matter as long as they are all there and in the proper structure. For example, say we are using a person a payment and a product, and the payment is in the person block.
h = Hash.new h['person'] = Person.first.attributes h['person']['payment'] = "$100.00" h['product'] = Product.first h.to_xml(:root => 'notification')
would result <notification> <person> <attr></attr> <payment>$100</payment> <maybe_another_attr></maybe_another_attr> </person> <product> <attr></attr> <attr2></attr2> </product> </notification>
SalesDocument < ActiveResource
I need to make sure that when I call
SalesDocument.save
the order of elements in the xml is predetermined and consistent, which currently not the case.
POST http://<myurl>/sales_documents.xml body: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sales-document> <items type="array"> <item> <quantity type="float">3.0</quantity> <product>AD_DASHERBOARD-200</product> </item> </items> <sales-group>110</sales-group> <division>10</division> <sales-office>110</sales-office> <ref-inquiry>Sales Lett</ref-inquiry> <distr-channel>10</distr-channel> <document-type>AG</document-type> <customer>0000100007</customer> <sales-org>1100</sales-org> </sales-document>