I have an Active Resource that I query for data. It returns records, counts, whatever I ask for.
eg: product = Product.find(123)
The response headers supposedly contain a custom attribute, say "HTTP_PRODUCT_COUNT=20" and I would like to examine the response.
What would be the most efficient way of doing this from IRB? I don't have the luxury of Rails or other frameworks that might provide the underlying response.
Do I need to hack Net::HTTP or ActiveResource itself with a monkeypatched call or something?
Here's one way to do it without monkeypatching.
class MyConn < ActiveResource::Connection
attr_reader :last_resp
def handle_response(resp)
@last_resp=resp
super
end
end
class Item < ActiveResource::Base
class << self
attr_writer :connection
end
self.site = 'http://yoursite'
end
# Set up our own connection
myconn = MyConn.new Item.connection.site
Item.connection = myconn # replace with our enhanced version
item = Item.find(123)
# you can also access myconn via Item.connection, since we've assigned it
myconn.last_resp.code # response code
myconn.last_resp.to_hash # header
If you change certain class fields like site, ARes will re-assign the connection field with a new Connection object. To see when this happens, search active_resource/base.rb for where @connection is set to nil. In these cases you'll have to assign the connection again.
UPDATE:
Here's a modified MyConn that should be thread-safe. (re-edited with fivell's suggestion)
class MyConn < ActiveResource::Connection
def handle_response(resp)
# Store in thread (thanks fivell for the tip).
# Use a symbol to avoid generating multiple string instances.
Thread.current[:active_resource_connection_last_response] = resp
super
end
# this is only a convenience method. You can access this directly from the current thread.
def last_resp
Thread.current[:active_resource_connection_last_response]
end
end
module ActiveResource
class Connection
alias_method :origin_handle_response, :handle_response
def handle_response(response)
Thread.current[:active_resource_connection_headers] = response
origin_handle_response(response)
end
def response
Thread.current[:active_resource_connection_headers]
end
end
end
also you can try this gem https://github.com/Fivell/activeresource-response