On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Rick Olson wrote:
WHat I wanted to be able to do was post HTML (marked up with
microformats)
to my endpoint just as I would post XML, and to have mofo then
parse that
HTML and pull out the relevant content.
The problem with this is that unless you code your rails models to
match specific microformats, the chances of the two data formats
lining up are slim. You'll need to write a custom param parser that
wires attributes from whatever microformat you're receiving with your
model's attributes.
One thing I've been considering for that is overriding the new and/or
create methods on my models (or adding a new method) that will accept
a mofo object as input and map it to field names. That could work as
a plugin. So my process would be:
* param_parser detects microformats and sets up params containing
the microformat objects
* overridden AR method receives microformat objects and translates
them into models
It's not as elegant as I'd like, but it's the best I've been able to
come up with so far.
James.
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