Format related patches to support serializing data out in the correct format with correct http request headers per http method type [#450 state:resolved]

Signed-off-by: Tarmo Tänav <tarmo@itech.ee>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
index 4af30ea13f..fb23b13fbb 100644
--- a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
+++ b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
@@ -848,8 +848,13 @@ module ActiveResource
     #
     #   my_group.to_xml(:skip_instruct => true)
     #   # => <subsidiary_group> [...] </subsidiary_group>
-    def to_xml(options={})
-      attributes.to_xml({:root => self.class.element_name}.merge(options))
+    def encode(options={})
+      case self.class.format
+        when ActiveResource::Formats[:xml]
+          self.class.format.encode(attributes, {:root => self.class.element_name}.merge(options))
+        else
+          self.class.format.encode(attributes, options)
+      end
     end
 
     # A method to reload the attributes of this object from the remote web service.
@@ -934,14 +939,14 @@ module ActiveResource
 
       # Update the resource on the remote service.
       def update
-        returning connection.put(element_path(prefix_options), to_xml, self.class.headers) do |response|
+        returning connection.put(element_path(prefix_options), encode, self.class.headers) do |response|
           load_attributes_from_response(response)
         end
       end
 
       # Create (i.e., save to the remote service) the new resource.
       def create
-        returning connection.post(collection_path, to_xml, self.class.headers) do |response|
+        returning connection.post(collection_path, encode, self.class.headers) do |response|
           self.id = id_from_response(response)
           load_attributes_from_response(response)
         end