Added load_attributes_from_response as a way of loading attributes from other responses than just create [DHH]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@6586 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/activeresource/CHANGELOG b/activeresource/CHANGELOG
index 807f887a96..07c48505d1 100644
--- a/activeresource/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activeresource/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added load_attributes_from_response as a way of loading attributes from other responses than just create [DHH]
+
+    class Highrise::Task < ActiveResource::Base
+      def complete
+        load_attributes_from_response(post(:complete))
+      end
+    end
+
+  ...will set "done_at" when complete is called.
+
+
 * Added support for calling custom methods #6979 [rwdaigle]
 
     Person.find(:managers)    # => GET /people/managers.xml
diff --git a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
index be0560879d..4635a5009e 100644
--- a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
+++ b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
@@ -297,12 +297,15 @@ module ActiveResource
       def create
         returning connection.post(collection_path, to_xml) do |response|
           self.id = id_from_response(response)
-          
-          if response['Content-size'] != "0" && response.body.strip.size > 0
-            load(connection.xml_from_response(response))
-          end
+          load_attributes_from_response(response)
         end
       end
+      
+      def load_attributes_from_response(response)
+        if response['Content-size'] != "0" && response.body.strip.size > 0
+          load(connection.xml_from_response(response))
+        end        
+      end
 
       # Takes a response from a typical create post and pulls the ID out
       def id_from_response(response)