docs/xml-responses.md
# *Flexirest:* XML Responses
Flexirest uses `Crack` to allow parsing of XML responses. For example, given an XML response of (with a content type of `application/xml` or `text/xml`):
```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Example Feed</title>
<link href="http://example.org/"/>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Doe</name>
</author>
<id>urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b93C-0003939e0af6</id>
<entry>
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title>
<link href="http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<summary>Some text.</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something else cool happened</title>
<link href="http://example.org/2015/08/11/andyjeffries"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6b</id>
<updated>2015-08-11T18:30:02Z</updated>
<summary>Some other text.</summary>
</entry>
</feed>
```
You can use:
```ruby
class Feed < Flexirest::Base
base_url "http://www.example.com/v1/"
get :atom, "/atom"
end
@atom = Feed.atom
puts @atom.feed.title
puts @atom.feed.link.href
@atom.feed.entry.each do |entry|
puts "#{entry.title} -> #{entry.link.href}"
end
```
For testing purposes, if you are using a `fake` content response when defining your endpoint, you should also provide `fake_content_type: "application/xml"` so that the parser knows to use XML parsing.
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