I'm working on a ruby on rails app that generates a large XML document using a builder template, but I've hit a bit of a stumbling point.
The XML output must have a field that contains the file size in bytes. I think that I'll basically need to use the value that would populate the "Content-Length" header in the http response, but updating the value of the tag will obviously change the file size.
The output should looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dataset>
<metadata>
<filesize>FILESIZE</filesize>
<filename>FILENAME.xml</filename>
</metadata>
<data>
.
.
.
</data>
</dataset>
Is adding the file size in an XML tag possible using a builder template? If not, is there some method that I could use to achieve the required result?
Thanks to Garrett I was able to come up with the following (ugly) solution, it definitely needs improvement, but it does work:
class XmlMetaInjector
require 'nokogiri'
def initialize(app)
@app = app
end
def call(env)
status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
if headers['Content-Type'].include? 'application/xml'
content_length = headers['Content-Length'].to_i # find the original content length
doc = Nokogiri::XML(response.body)
doc.xpath('/xmlns:path/xmlns:to/xmlns:node', 'xmlns' => 'http://namespace.com/').each do |node|
# ugly method to determine content_length; if this happens more than once we're in trouble
content_length = content_length + (content_length.to_s.length - node.content.length)
node.content = content_length
end
# update the header to reflect the new content length
headers['Content-Length'] = content_length.to_s
[status, headers, doc.to_xml]
else
[status, headers, response]
end
end # call(env)
end