I've just made this "serialization" module in Ruby that takes a hash and outputs a XML string.
module Xml extend self def serialize(hash_obj) hash_obj.map do |key, value| noderize(key, value) end end def noderize(key, value) if value.class == Hash node_value = serialize(value).join else node_value = value.nil? ? "" : value end "<#{key}>#{node_value}</#{key}>" end end puts Xml.serialize({ name: "Vinicius", username: "vnbrs", address: { country: { name: "Brazil", dial_code: 55 }, street: "R Jose Ananias Mauad", street_number: nil, } }) And that outputs:
<name>Vinicius</name> <username>vnbrs</username> <address> <country> <name>Brazil</name> <dial_code>55</dial_code> </country> <street>R Jose Ananias Mauad</street> <street_number></street_number> </address> I've used #map and some recursion. How could that be improved? Is it a bad implementation?
