Individual root by template about acts_as_api

[fabrik42]

Hi Kai,

I see your problem and I will take care of it this week. This is also a feature I want, so I can make acts_as_api compatible with backbone.js out of the box. :)

[fabrik42]

Btw: I've chosen another default response format as the Rails 3 default response format is imho not consistent, when it comes to render sub resources:

While rails wraps a collection of models in a root node by default

{ users: [ { user: { name: "tina" } },  { user: { name: "tina" } } ] }

It doesn't do this for included associations, e.g.

[
    {
        "user": {
            "created_at": "2011-04-26T08: 43: 10Z",
            "updated_at": "2011-04-26T08: 43: 10Z",
            "id": 1,
            "tasks": [
                {
                    "created_at": "2011-04-26T08: 44: 22Z",
                    "completed": false,
                    "updated_at": "2011-04-26T08: 44: 22Z",
                    "id": 2,
                    "user_id": 1,
                    "description": "Be a Jedi"
                },
                {
                    "created_at": "2011-04-26T08: 44: 30Z",
                    "completed": false,
                    "updated_at": "2011-04-26T08: 44: 30Z",
                    "id": 3,
                    "user_id": 1,
                    "description": "Destroy Deathstar"
                }
                ...
            ],
            "last_name": "Skywalker",
            "first_name": "Luke"
        }
    },
    ...
]

But I will add a config option to restore the default Rails behaviour. :)

[fabrik42]

Hi Kai,

just add

ActsAsApi::Config.include_root_in_json_collections = true

in your initializers and the response should look like the Rails 3 response.

[medihack]

Hi Christian, you are right with those inconsistencies in the Rails output. That's why we decided to use the more consistent way of your ActsAsApi default representation in upcoming projects. Thanks again for the great support.

[fabrik42]

You're welcome! :)