From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-08-18T23:51:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting an array back in xmlrpc?

Pit Capitain wrote:

> If this works
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>   query.fetch.to_a
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> and this doesn't
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>    query.fetch_all.to_a
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> maybe you need to convert each single record to an array first, like
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>    query.fetch_all.map { |record| record.to_a }
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> Just a guess...
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> Regards,
> Pit

Digging deeper into the docs I see that xmlrpc can only handle a one
dimensional array being passed back to the client. So what I did was
pass back string values with ';' row delimiters and ',' record
delimiters. Then the client parses this out to in turn shuffle them
into the two-dimensional array I was looking for. The code is too ugly
to post here due to my clumsiness :-) but it works!