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Jun 26, 2008 4:52pm

Stephen Beck 1 post

I bought the book hoping to see more on REST, hope it makes it to the final copy.

I need to create XML in Rails and POST to a remote service. I have researched on
the Web and see all sorts of good info, but nothing covering this scenario. I found
a blog on comsuming via REXML and Xpath, which is ok I guess for parsing response,
but I want to generate the request first, obviously :-).

ActiveResource does it if you are staying inside Ruby, but I’m not. I need to send
a RESTful XML doc via HTTP POST to a remote point. How do I define the XML,
populate it and POST? I created a db with XML elements close to what the remote
point is expecting as a prototype, but RoR dinks with the element names and the
XML schema is not exactly the same.

Thanks,
Steve

Jul 19, 2008 4:23pm

Mikhail V. S... 17 posts

Stephen, can you give an example of the XML document to be generated and sent?

Jul 21, 2008 1:01pm

Sam Ruby 196 posts

Having myself been caught up in the Web Services and SOAP craze a few years back, I understand the appeal of having your requests “generated” for you. But I’ve since reformed, and co-authored a book on REST and strongly suggest to everybody who will listen that they resist that urge.

Generating XML is easy using builder

There are no separate schemas to worry about, and you have full control over the element names.

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Jun 26, 2008 4:52pm Stephen Beck 1 post	I bought the book hoping to see more on REST, hope it makes it to the final copy. I need to create XML in Rails and POST to a remote service. I have researched on the Web and see all sorts of good info, but nothing covering this scenario. I found a blog on comsuming via REXML and Xpath, which is ok I guess for parsing response, but I want to generate the request first, obviously :-). ActiveResource does it if you are staying inside Ruby, but I’m not. I need to send a RESTful XML doc via HTTP POST to a remote point. How do I define the XML, populate it and POST? I created a db with XML elements close to what the remote point is expecting as a prototype, but RoR dinks with the element names and the XML schema is not exactly the same. Thanks, Steve

Jul 19, 2008 4:23pm Mikhail V. S... 17 posts	Stephen, can you give an example of the XML document to be generated and sent?

Jul 21, 2008 1:01pm Sam Ruby 196 posts	Having myself been caught up in the Web Services and SOAP craze a few years back, I understand the appeal of having your requests “generated” for you. But I’ve since reformed, and co-authored a book on REST and strongly suggest to everybody who will listen that they resist that urge. Generating XML is easy using builder There are no separate schemas to worry about, and you have full control over the element names.