There is no property to not send the root model name in requests

[noelrocha]

Hi,

there is no way to avoid NSRails to insert the model name in POSTs.

How to avoid that?

[dingbat]

Hi there,

I assume you mean the JSON being sent as {"user"=>{"name"=>"x", "email"=>"y"}} instead of {"name"=>"x", "email"=>"y"}, for example.

The method that JSON-izes your object, remoteDictionaryRepresentationWrapped: on NSRRemoteObject, takes a boolean parameter of whether or not this should happen. The issue is that NSRRequest, what forms the POST requests you're probably making, calls this with YES.

So as I see it you could do two things:

1. Craft NSRRequests manually whose request bodies don't wrap the JSON, but then you'd have to do all the object update followup (which is just one line really) manually as well:

   NSRRequest *r = [NSRRequest requestToCreateObject:obj];
   r.body = [obj remoteDictionaryRepresentationWrapped:NO];
   [r sendAsynchronous:^(id ret, NSError *err) {
     //check for error
     [obj setPropertiesUsingRemoteDictionary:ret];
   }];

   Of course if you're doing this often it can be refactored & the burden isn't so bad.

2. Or, you could go the more hacky way and override remoteDictionaryRepresentationWrapped: in your model to always return NO:

   - (NSDictionary *) remoteDictionaryRepresentationWrapped:(BOOL)wrapped {
     return [super remoteDictionaryRepresentationWrapped:NO];
   }

   This is less advised, and also you'd have to make sure you never want this wrapping to happen.

The other obvious alternative I suppose is to support the wrapping server-side. If you're using Rails this is a given, but of course looks like you aren't.

[dingbat]

Closing, feel free to comment if you have any questions.