Make Array handling in payload values more compact to reflect subsequent equal tags

[meismann]

Old behaviour:

# Adds: "<a>1</a><a><b>1</b><b>2</b></a>" to the ebay request body
args = [{ :a => 1 }, { :a => [{:b => 1 }, { :b => 2 }] }]
Ebayr::Request.new(:Blah, :input => args)

New behaviour:

If a value in this Hash is an Array, then each of the Array's elements is wrapped in the same tag (which is the value's key), like here (1 and 2 are both wrapped in the tag b):

# Adds: "<a>1</a><a><b>1</b><b>2</b></a>" to the ebay request body
args = {a: [ 1, { b: [1, 2] } ]}
Ebayr::Request.new(:Blah, :input => args)

If you have to, you can switch the legacy syntax on with this setting:

Ebayr.use_old_hash_to_xml_conversion = true

Also:
These methods cannot be used from outside of Ebayr::Request any more:
.xml, .serialize_input, .camelize, #input_xml

[meismann]

@bjjb Took up your suggestion to make it backward compatible. Here is the result.

[SpeerJ]

Please remember to use the "=>" over ":" for hashes, since this project targets ruby 1.8.7 as well.
the tests return this error "
/home/travis/build/bjjb/ebayr/test/ebayr/request_test.rb:24: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ')'

  xml_of(a: [ 1, { b: [1, 2] } ])."

it can be fixed with "xml_of(:a=> [ 1, { :b=> [1, 2] } ])"

[meismann]

Ok, will change it in a minute.

[meismann]

Any progress here?

[meismann]

Any chance that theses changes will make it into master? If not, let us close it.

[bjjb]

Hi @meismann The changes currently conflict with other changes in master. Is it still an issue for you? If not, then I guess we can just close it. If so, then I can make some suggestions for prepping the MR.