I am creating a RESTful web service and want to allow the user to supply the POST/PUT representation as either url-encoded key/value pairs or XML. I have read in several sources that Rails will parse incoming XML into the params hash. The following data should be equivalent:
XML: <product><test>Hello</test></product>
url-encoded: product[test]=Hello
They should both result in the hash params = {"product" => {"test" => "Hello"}} (+ format, controller and action keys)
But when I do the following curl command:
curl -u name:pass -i -X POST -d "<product><test>Hej</test></product>" http://localhost:3003/product.xml
the params hash looks like this:
{"<dt_order><test>Hej</test></dt_order>"=>""}
Does anyone have any input on why this happens and how to solve it. I am running 1.2.6 and a 2.0 migration is not possible since the application is in production.
Thanks in advance
Erik Lindblad
