From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-12-24T09:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: go ahead, marshal ruby objects via html

yes i know, the name attribute of marshal_to_html isn't used. its meant to 
offer an alternative to _marshal, but havne't implemented yet.

On Monday 23 December 2002 05:31 pm, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> doing a lot of eruby/cgi scripting and discovered a neat way to pass entire
> ruby objects between cgi forms. have a look. Note: this is pulled from the
> library i've created called CGIze for doing a number of cgi related things.
> @@cgi holds an instance of CGI.new.
>
>   def CGIze.marshal_to_html(iobj, name='')
>     data = CGI.escape(Marshal.dump(iobj))
>     print('<input type="hidden" name="_marshal" value="' + data + '"/>')
>   end
>
>   def CGIze.marshal_from_html
>     return Marshal.load(CGI.unescape(@@cgi['_marshal'][0]))
>   end
>
> this saves me a bunch of headache over using lots of hidden variables to
> pass all of an object's data and it seemlessly deals with all types of
> instance variables whether they be arrays, hashes, or whatever.
>
> just thought somebody might be interested.
>
> -transami