Extension-less Formats in ActiveResource

March 26th, 2008 When trying to integrate Litmus with Fetch recently we came across an API that whilst appearing RESTful, didn't quite map onto ActiveResource conventions because their URLs 404'd if we included .xml as the extension.

So I quickly whipped up a little plugin to let us specify new formats that don't include extensions. 

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class Something < ActiveResource::Base
  
  self.site = "http://someone:password@an-app.com"
  self.prefix = "/api/"
  self.format = :xml_no_extension
  
end


Now, calls to 


Something.find(:all)
will generate http://an-app.com/somethings rather than http://an-app.com/somethings.xml

Perfect!

You can grab the code from the ExtensionlessFormat GitHub repository

2 Responses to “Extension-less Formats in ActiveResource”

  1. Mike Larkin Says:
    March 26th, 2008 at 08:48 PM

    Thanks for publishing this!

    We’ll flesh out the API to be completely RESTful as well as supporting only GET & POST (as it does now for the sake of clients that can’t use all 4 HTML methods).

    You rock!

  2. David Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 05:00 PM

    Hey Mike.

    No worries! We really like the look of Fetch so we’re looking forward to starting using it and integrating it with Litmus.

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