Support for non heterogeneous arrays when serializing to xml. Unless guessable from array name the type name will be included as attribute

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@7173 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

actionpack/test/template/asset_tag_helper_test.rb

@@ -364,4 +364,11 @@ class AssetTagHelperNonVhostTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   ensure
     ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
   end
+
+  def test_asset_host_without_protocol_should_use_request_protocol_even_if_path_present
+    ActionController::Base.asset_host = 'a.example.com/files/go/here'
+    assert_equal 'gopher://a.example.com/files/go/here/collaboration/hieraki/images/xml.png', image_path('xml.png')
+  ensure
+    ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
+  end
 end

activerecord/lib/active_record/xml_serialization.rb

@@ -211,7 +211,13 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
               builder.tag!(tag, :type => :array)
             else
               builder.tag!(tag, :type => :array) do
-                records.each { |r| r.to_xml(opts.merge(:root=>r.class.to_s.underscore)) }
+                association_name = association.to_s.singularize
+                records.each do |record| 
+                  record.to_xml opts.merge(
+                    :root => association_name, 
+                    :type => (record.class.to_s.underscore == association_name ? nil : record.class.name)
+                  )
+                end
               end
             end
           when :has_one, :belongs_to
@@ -247,6 +253,10 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
       if options[:namespace]
         args << {:xmlns=>options[:namespace]}
       end
+      
+      if options[:type]
+        args << {:type=>options[:type]}
+      end
         
       builder.tag!(*args) do
         add_attributes

activerecord/test/xml_serialization_test.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ require 'abstract_unit'
 require 'fixtures/post'
 require 'fixtures/author'
 require 'fixtures/tagging'
+require 'fixtures/comment'
 
 class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
   # mock out self.columns so no pesky db is needed for these tests
@@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ class DatabaseConnectedXmlSerializationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_include_uses_association_name
     xml = authors(:david).to_xml :include=>:hello_posts, :indent => 0
     assert_match %r{<hello-posts type="array">}, xml
-    assert_match %r{<post>}, xml
-    assert_match %r{<sti-post>}, xml
+    assert_match %r{<hello-post type="Post">}, xml
+    assert_match %r{<hello-post type="StiPost">}, xml
   end
   
   def test_methods_are_called_on_object
@@ -171,4 +172,18 @@ class DatabaseConnectedXmlSerializationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_match %r{^  <posts type="array"/>}, xml
   end
   
+  def test_should_has_many_array_elements_should_include_type_when_different_from_guessed_value
+    xml = authors(:david).to_xml :include=>:posts_with_comments, :indent => 2
+    
+    assert Hash.from_xml(xml)
+    assert_match %r{^  <posts-with-comments type="array">}, xml
+    assert_match %r{^    <posts-with-comment type="Post">}, xml
+    assert_match %r{^    <posts-with-comment type="StiPost">}, xml
+
+    types = Hash.from_xml(xml)['author']['posts_with_comments'].collect {|t| t['type'] }
+    assert types.include?('SpecialPost')
+    assert types.include?('Post')
+    assert types.include?('StiPost')
+  end
+  
 end

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
           private
             def typecast_xml_value(value)
               case value.class.to_s
-                when "Hash"
+                when 'Hash'
                   if value.has_key?("__content__")
                     content = translate_xml_entities(value["__content__"])
                     if parser = XML_PARSING[value["type"]]
@@ -195,31 +195,34 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
                     end
                   elsif value['type'] == 'string' && value['nil'] != 'true'
                     ""
+                  # blank or nil parsed values are represented by nil
+                  elsif value.blank? || value['nil'] == 'true'
+                    nil
+                  # If the type is the only element which makes it then 
+                  # this still makes the value nil
+                  elsif value['type'] && value.size == 1
+                    nil
                   else
-                    xml_value = (value.blank? || value['type'] || value['nil'] == 'true') ? nil : value.inject({}) do |h,(k,v)|
+                    xml_value = value.inject({}) do |h,(k,v)|
                       h[k] = typecast_xml_value(v)
                       h
                     end
                     
                     # Turn { :files => { :file => #<StringIO> } into { :files => #<StringIO> } so it is compatible with
                     # how multipart uploaded files from HTML appear
-                    if xml_value.is_a?(Hash) && xml_value["file"].is_a?(StringIO)
-                      xml_value["file"]
-                    else
-                      xml_value
-                    end
+                    xml_value["file"].is_a?(StringIO) ? xml_value["file"] : xml_value
                   end
-                when "Array"
+                when 'Array'
                   value.map! { |i| typecast_xml_value(i) }
                   case value.length
                     when 0 then nil
                     when 1 then value.first
                     else value
                   end
-                when "String"
+                when 'String'
                   value
                 else
-                  raise "can't typecast #{value.inspect}"
+                  raise "can't typecast #{value.class.name} - #{value.inspect}"
               end
             end
 

activesupport/test/core_ext/hash_ext_test.rb

@@ -588,6 +588,23 @@ class HashToXmlTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
     assert_equal expected_bacon_hash, Hash.from_xml(bacon_xml)["bacon"]
   end
+  
+  def test_type_trickles_through_when_unknown
+    product_xml = <<-EOT
+    <product>
+      <weight type="double">0.5</weight>
+      <image type="ProductImage"><filename>image.gif</filename></image>
+      
+    </product>
+    EOT
+
+    expected_product_hash = {
+      :weight => 0.5,
+      :image => {'type' => 'ProductImage', 'filename' => 'image.gif' },
+    }.stringify_keys
+
+    assert_equal expected_product_hash, Hash.from_xml(product_xml)["product"]    
+  end
 
   def test_should_use_default_value_for_unknown_key
     hash_wia = HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(3)