ruby on rails - Format xml with properties with acts_as_api

Question

i have a doubt with acts_as_api. i want to format a xml string like this:

<root>
  <child property="property_value">Some Text</child>
  etc
</root>

this is possible?

thank's in advance

Answer 1

I think this will not work automagically as you want to put data in your XML structure in two different places:

• The properties of the nodes
• The content of the nodes

But the attributes of your model are contained a single Hash. acts_as_api (or another serializer) can't determine which attributes are supposed to be in a property and which one should be taken as the inner text.

For this case you will have to provide your own serializer (you can have a look at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Serialization.html#method-i-to_xml on how to do it in Rails.