http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html
and comments posted on
http://afreshcup.com/2008/11/05/customizing-to_xml-and-to_json-in-rails/
helped me out..
Thanks,
CS.
Carlos Santana wrote:
> Any help please...?
>
> -
> Thanks,
> CS
>
> Carlos Santana wrote:
>> I am almost done with my RESTful application design.
>> Following are the nested resources:
>> map.resources :topics do |topics|
>> topics.resources :items do |items|
>> items.resources :attachments
>> end
>> end
>> A topic has a list of items and items may have attachments.
>>
>> When a user accesses particular topic, he/she should also see
>> corresponding items and attachments. So a url topic_path(1), i.e.,
>> 'topic/1' should also display related items and their attachments. This
>> is not a problem while rendering page in a html/rhtml format. I am using
>> _item and _attachment partials within topic/show.rhtml. How do I achieve
>> this in case of xml? The usual 'format.xml {render :xml =>
>> @topic.to_xml}' is of no use in this case.
>>
>> Another way to access items and attachments would be:
>> 'topic/:id/items' and 'topic/:id/items/:id/attachments'.
>> This is pretty easy and rendering documents in different formats is not
>> a problem here. This also suggests 'Resource = Record' relationship. Any
>> thoughts on this?
>>
>> One more thing I would like to add is downloading a topic in a zip file
>> format. Isn't it just another formatted url 'format.zip { render :file
>> => @topic.generate_archive }'?
>>
>> -
>> Thanks,
>> CS.
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