rest-client 0.6 → 0.6.1

data/Rakefile

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ require 'rake/gempackagetask'
 require 'rake/rdoctask'
 require 'fileutils'
 
-version = "0.6"
+version = "0.6.1"
 name = "rest-client"
 
 spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|

data/lib/rest_client.rb

@@ -5,6 +5,33 @@ require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/resource'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/request_errors'
 
 # This module's static methods are the entry point for using the REST client.
+#
+#   # GET
+#   xml = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource'
+#   jpg = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource', :accept => 'image/jpg'
+#
+#   # authentication and SSL
+#   RestClient.get 'https://user:password@example.com/private/resource'
+#
+#   # POST or PUT with a hash sends parameters as a urlencoded form body
+#   RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :param1 => 'one'
+#
+#   # nest hash parameters
+#   RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :nested => { :param1 => 'one' }
+#
+#   # POST and PUT with raw payloads
+#   RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', 'the post body', :content_type => 'text/plain'
+#   RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource.xml', xml_doc
+#   RestClient.put 'http://example.com/resource.pdf', File.read('my.pdf'), :content_type => 'application/pdf'
+#
+#   # DELETE
+#   RestClient.delete 'http://example.com/resource'
+#
+# For live tests of RestClient, try using http://rest-test.heroku.com, which echoes back information about the rest call:
+#
+#   >> RestClient.put 'http://rest-test.heroku.com/resource', :foo => 'baz'
+#   => "PUT http://rest-test.heroku.com/resource with a 7 byte payload, content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded {\"foo\"=>\"baz\"}"
+#
 module RestClient
 	def self.get(url, headers={})
 		Request.execute(:method => :get,
@@ -86,14 +113,19 @@ module RestClient
 			uri
 		end
 
-		def process_payload(p=nil)
+		def process_payload(p=nil, parent_key=nil)
 			unless p.is_a?(Hash)
 				p
 			else
-				@headers[:content_type] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
+				@headers[:content_type] ||= 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
 				p.keys.map do |k|
-					v = URI.escape(p[k].to_s, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]"))
-					"#{k}=#{v}"
+					key = parent_key ? "#{parent_key}[#{k}]" : k
+					if p[k].is_a? Hash
+						process_payload(p[k], key)
+					else
+						value = URI.escape(p[k].to_s, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]"))
+						"#{key}=#{value}"
+					end
 				end.join("&")
 			end
 		end

data/spec/rest_client_spec.rb

@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@ describe RestClient do
 			@request.process_payload(:a => 'b c+d').should == "a=b%20c%2Bd"
 		end
 
+		it "accepts nested hashes in payload" do
+			payload = @request.process_payload(:user => { :name => 'joe', :location => { :country => 'USA', :state => 'CA' }})
+			payload.should include('user[name]=joe')
+			payload.should include('user[location][country]=USA')
+			payload.should include('user[location][state]=CA')
+		end
+
 		it "set urlencoded content_type header on hash payloads" do
 			@request.process_payload(:a => 1)
 			@request.headers[:content_type].should == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: rest-client
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: "0.6"
+  version: 0.6.1
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Adam Wiggins
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2008-07-22 00:00:00 -07:00
+date: 2008-08-01 00:00:00 -07:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []
 
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ extra_rdoc_files: []
 
 files: 
 - Rakefile
+- lib/request_errors.rb
 - lib/resource.rb
 - lib/rest_client.rb
-- lib/request_errors.rb
-- spec/resource_spec.rb
+- spec/base.rb
 - spec/request_errors_spec.rb
+- spec/resource_spec.rb
 - spec/rest_client_spec.rb
-- spec/base.rb
 has_rdoc: true
 homepage: http://rest-client.heroku.com/
 post_install_message: