add indifferent access to the attributes

Signed-off-by: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>

3 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
index 8fc0999c70..3a07811f26 100644
--- a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
+++ b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'active_support'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/class/attribute_accessors'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/class/inheritable_attributes'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/indifferent_access'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/module/attr_accessor_with_default'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/module/delegation'
@@ -770,7 +771,7 @@ module ActiveResource
     #   my_other_course = Course.new(:name => "Philosophy: Reason and Being", :lecturer => "Ralph Cling")
     #   my_other_course.save
     def initialize(attributes = {})
-      @attributes     = {}
+      @attributes     = {}.with_indifferent_access
       @prefix_options = {}
       load(attributes)
     end
diff --git a/activeresource/test/cases/base/load_test.rb b/activeresource/test/cases/base/load_test.rb
index 1952f5b5f0..53fa94d07f 100644
--- a/activeresource/test/cases/base/load_test.rb
+++ b/activeresource/test/cases/base/load_test.rb
@@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ class BaseLoadTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal @matz.stringify_keys, @person.load(@matz).attributes
   end
 
+  def test_after_load_attributes_are_accessible
+    assert_equal Hash.new, @person.attributes
+    assert_equal @matz.stringify_keys, @person.load(@matz).attributes
+    assert_equal @matz[:name], @person.attributes['name']
+  end
+
+  def test_after_load_attributes_are_accessible_via_indifferent_access
+    assert_equal Hash.new, @person.attributes
+    assert_equal @matz.stringify_keys, @person.load(@matz).attributes
+    assert_equal @matz[:name], @person.attributes['name']
+    assert_equal @matz[:name], @person.attributes[:name]
+  end
+
   def test_load_one_with_existing_resource
     address = @person.load(:street_address => @first_address).street_address
     assert_kind_of StreetAddress, address
diff --git a/activeresource/test/cases/base_test.rb b/activeresource/test/cases/base_test.rb
index 96fc6fc2fe..fc366430d4 100644
--- a/activeresource/test/cases/base_test.rb
+++ b/activeresource/test/cases/base_test.rb
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ class BaseTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     Person.password = nil
   end
 
+  ########################################################################
+  # Tests relating to setting up the API-connection configuration
+  ########################################################################
 
   def test_site_accessor_accepts_uri_or_string_argument
     site = URI.parse('http://localhost')
@@ -509,6 +512,11 @@ class BaseTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_not_equal(first_connection, second_connection, 'Connection should be re-created')
   end
 
+
+  ########################################################################
+  # Tests for setting up remote URLs for a given model (including adding
+  # parameters appropriately)
+  ########################################################################
   def test_collection_name
     assert_equal "people", Person.collection_name
   end
@@ -637,6 +645,10 @@ class BaseTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal [:person_id].to_set, StreetAddress.__send__(:prefix_parameters)
   end
 
+
+  ########################################################################
+  # Tests basic CRUD functions (find/save/create etc)
+  ########################################################################
   def test_respond_to
     matz = Person.find(1)
     assert matz.respond_to?(:name)
@@ -910,6 +922,9 @@ class BaseTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_raise(ActiveResource::ResourceGone) { Person.find(1) }
   end
 
+  ########################################################################
+  # Tests the more miscelaneous helper methods
+  ########################################################################
   def test_exists
     # Class method.
     assert !Person.exists?(nil)