Well, I'm assuming that's what it's currently using to generate the XML it is,
it's just that as wonderfully correct that XML is, I need to break it. I
suppose I can create a DABustificatedXmlResponseWriter subclass, but I'm
starting to question the wisdom of using the ERRest hammer on this particular
bolt.
Dave
On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Martin Samm wrote:
> Dave,
>
> haven't tried it (yet) but i think ERXAbstractRestResponseWriter (or the
> subclass ERXXmlRestResponseWriter) might be what you're looking for.
>
>
> On 1 September 2010 15:40, David Avendasora <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is a Wonder question, but for some reason the source forge mail
> servers tend to refuse my mail.
>
> I'm trying to use ERRest to replace some existing XML service calls, the
> problem is that the current formatting of the XML files produced is somewhat
> arbitrary, as in it doesn't match the data model.
>
> For example, we have two entities: Identity and Account. Each identity can
> have multiple accounts, but in the XML, they are flattened into a "person"
> node so we currently have:
>
> <person>
> <id>1928374</id>
> <username>StrudelCutie4427</username>
> <firstname>Heinz</firstname>
> <lastname>Doofenshmirtz</lastname>
> </person>
>
> ERRest is producing:
>
> <Accounts type="Account" id="10201040013">
> <userName>StrudelCutie4427</userName>
> <identity type="Identity" id="1040013">
> <id>1928374</id>
> <firstname>Heinz</firstname>
> <lastname>Doofenshmirtz</lastname>
> </identity>
> </Accounts>
>
> So I want to override not just what the entities are called (just for this
> one request - not for all requests against Account and Identity) but I also
> want to flatten some of the relationships and rename attributes.
>
> I can't see any built-in way to do this kind of toying with the object graph,
> unless I'm missing something.
>
> So, if ERRest can't do it, what would be some suggestions on how to do it?
> Create a non-EO class that manually flattens the information and have ERRest
> vend that?
>
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