XML parsing from API with Nokogiri and Rails 3
Hi Im trying to parse XML from a websites API with Nokogiri. Im just curious to see if Im on the right track. I have a controller wich handles the parsing and then I would like the model to initialize the necessary parameters and then display it as a simple list in the view. I was thinking something like this in the Controller:
def index
doc = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://www.mysomething.com/partner/api/1_0/somerandomkeynumber4b0/channel/11number/material/list/").read)
@news = []
doc.css("news").each do |n|
header = n.css("header").text
source_name = n.css("source_name").text
summary = n.css("summary").text
url = i.css("url").text
created_at = i.css("created_at").text
type_of_media = i.css("type_of_media").text
@news << News.new(
:header => header,)
end
and then the Model:
class News
include ActiveModel::Validations
validates_presence_of :url, :type_of_media
attr_accessor :header, :source_name, :summary, :url, :created_at, :type_of_media
def initialize(attributes = {})
@header = attributes[:header]
@source_name = attributes[:source_name]
@summary = attributes[:summary]
@url = attributes[:url]
@created_at = attributes[:created_at]
@type_of_media = attributes[:type_of_media]
end
Is this how you would do this?! Not sure Im thinking correct on this. Maybe you have any tips on a great way of incorporating Nokogiri with some other thing for the view like Google maps or something. Right now Im getting an error saying
Missing template news/index with {:formats=>[:html], :handlers=>[:builder, :rjs, :erb, :rhtml, :rxml], :locale=>[:en, :en]} in view paths
Thanks in advance!
@noodle: So this:
@news = doc.css('query').map do |n|
h = {}
%w(header source_name summary url created_at type_of_media).each do |key|
h[key.to_sym] = n.css(key).text
end
News.new(h)
end
Is equal to:
@news = []
doc.css("news").each do |n|
header = n.css("header").text
source_name = n.css("source_name").text
summary = n.css("summary").text
url = i.css("url").text
created_at = i.css("created_at").text
type_开发者_如何学运维of_media = i.css("type_of_media").text
@news << News.new(
:header => header,)
end
Did I understand you correctly?! Regarding the template I have located the the problem. It was a minor misspelling. Cheers!
You're really asking two questions here..
Is my xml -> parse -> populate pipeline ok?
Yes, pretty much. As there's no conditional logic in your .each block it would be cleaner to do it like this:
@news = doc.css('query').map do |n|
#...
News.new(:blah => blah, ...)
end
.. but that's a minor point.
EDIT
You could save some typing by initializing a hash from the parsed xml and then passing that to Model.new
, like:
@news = doc.css('query').map do |n|
h = {}
h[:header] = n.css('header').text
# ...
News.new(h)
end
EDIT 2
Or even shorter..
@news = doc.css('query').map do |n|
h = {}
%w(header source_name summary url created_at type_of_media).each do |key|
h[key.to_sym] = n.css(key).text
end
News.new(h)
end
In fact #inject
could make that shorter still but I think that'd be a little obfuscated.
Why can't rails find my view template?
Dunno, is there one? You've not given enough details to answer that part.
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