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On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Martin Samm wrote:

Dave,

haven't tried it (yet) but i think ERXAbstractRestResponseWriter (or the subclass ERXXmlRestResponseWriter) might be what you're looking for.

On 1 September 2010 15:40, David Avendasora <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I know this is a Wonder question, but for some reason the source forge mail servers tend to refuse my mail.

I'm trying to use ERRest to replace some existing XML service calls, the problem is that the current formatting of the XML files produced is somewhat arbitrary, as in it doesn't match the data model.

For example, we have two entities: Identity and Account. Each identity can have multiple accounts, but in the XML, they are flattened into a "person" node so we currently have:

<person>
<id>1928374</id>
<username>StrudelCutie4427</username>
<firstname>Heinz</firstname>
<lastname>Doofenshmirtz</lastname>
</person>

ERRest is producing:

<Accounts type="Account" id="10201040013">
<userName>StrudelCutie4427</userName>
<identity type="Identity" id="1040013">
<id>1928374</id>
<firstname>Heinz</firstname>
<lastname>Doofenshmirtz</lastname>
</identity>
</Accounts>

So I want to override not just what the entities are called (just for this one request - not for all requests against Account and Identity) but I also want to flatten some of the relationships and rename attributes.

I can't see any built-in way to do this kind of toying with the object graph, unless I'm missing something.

So, if ERRest can't do it, what would be some suggestions on how to do it? Create a non-EO class that manually flattens the information and have ERRest vend that?

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References:
	>Overriding ERRest output (From: David Avendasora <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Overriding ERRest output (From: Martin Samm <email@hidden>)