Module Sequel::Plugins::XmlSerializer
In: lib/sequel/plugins/xml_serializer.rb

The xml_serializer plugin handles serializing entire Sequel::Model objects to XML, and deserializing XML into a single Sequel::Model object or an array of Sequel::Model objects. It requires the nokogiri library.

Basic Example:

  album = Album[1]
  puts album.to_xml
  # Output:
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <album>
    <id>1</id>
    <name>RF</name>
    <artist_id>2</artist_id>
  </album>

You can provide options to control the XML output:

  puts album.to_xml(:only=>:name)
  puts album.to_xml(:except=>[:id, :artist_id])
  # Output:
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <album>
    <name>RF</name>
  </album>

  album.to_xml(:include=>:artist)
  # Output:
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <album>
    <id>1</id>
    <name>RF</name>
    <artist_id>2</artist_id>
    <artist>
      <id>2</id>
      <name>YJM</name>
    </artist>
  </album>

You can use a hash value with :include to pass options to associations:

  album.to_json(:include=>{:artist=>{:only=>:name}})
  # Output:
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <album>
    <id>1</id>
    <name>RF</name>
    <artist_id>2</artist_id>
    <artist>
      <name>YJM</name>
    </artist>
  </album>

In addition to creating XML, this plugin also enables Sequel::Model objects to be created by parsing XML:

  xml = album.to_xml
  album = Album.from_xml(xml)

In addition, you can update existing model objects directly from XML using from_xml:

  album.from_xml(xml)

Additionally, to_xml also exists as a class and dataset method, both of which return all objects in the dataset:

  Album.to_xml
  Album.filter(:artist_id=>1).to_xml(:include=>:tags)

Such XML can be loaded back into an array of Sequel::Model objects using array_from_xml:

  Album.array_from_xml(Album.to_xml) # same as Album.all

If you have an existing array of model instances you want to convert to XML, you can call the class to_xml method with the :array option:

  Album.to_xml(:array=>[Album[1], Album[2]])

Usage:

  # Add XML output capability to all model subclass instances (called before loading subclasses)
  Sequel::Model.plugin :xml_serializer

  # Add XML output capability to Album class instances
  Album.plugin :xml_serializer

Classes and Modules

Module Sequel::Plugins::XmlSerializer::ClassMethods
Module Sequel::Plugins::XmlSerializer::DatasetMethods
Module Sequel::Plugins::XmlSerializer::InstanceMethods

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