Even Flow..

As written in a previous last post, I've been busy with Rails and SOAP. I've been figuring out how to pass hashes to my remote calls instead of an argument list.

The default API requires something like:

api_method :get_my_thingy, :expects => [:id => :int, :name => :string], :returns => [Thingy.struct]

When calling this (e.g. with a ruby soap thingy) it looks something like:

soap.getMyThingy(2, "foo")

But I would like to do:

soap.getMyThingy(:id => 2, :name => "foo")

For this to happen, I introduced an OptionStruct:

module ActionWebService
 class OptionStruct < ActionWebService::Struct
 member :id, :int
 member :name, :string
 end
end

After this, the API should be like:

api_method :get_my_thingy, :expects => [OptionStruct], :returns => [Thingy.struct]

See my previous post for the Thingy.struct