[LRUG] Serialising a struct

[Siddharth Sharma]

Does this help?
https://ruby.awsblog.com/post/Tx2SU6TYJWQQLC3/Stubbing-AWS-Responses


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm working with some code that makes use of the new AWS SDK (
> https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-core-ruby) to retrieve data from (and make
> calls into) AWS.
>
> My responsibility (ie the stuff I want to test) is once I've got the data,
> which I get from the aws-sdk-core library in the form of structs.
> Obviously I don't want to keep calling AWS when testing, so I'm using a
> test double.
>
> What's the best way to make a struct available as canned data?  I can view
> the data I want as a struct using pry... or I can dump the API response
> using VCR, but neither really helps.  The API is actually just XML, and I
> can't work out how to serialise the struct so I can get it back again as a
> struct... Marshal doesn't support dumping from a Struct, JSON gives me a
> string representation, and YAML gives me a Psych::Nodes::Document object...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> S.
>
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