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#example with a formatted date and a boolean
xml.instruct!
xml.declare! :DOCTYPE, :plist, :PUBLIC, "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN", "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"
xml.plist("version" => 1.0) do |plist|
plist.dict do |wrapper|
@occasions.each do |occasion|
wrapper.key occasion.id
wrapper.dict do |dict|
dict.key 'ccd_remote_id' # required id from the system of record (rails db in this case)
dict.integer occasion.id
dict.key 'updated' # required updated timestamp for syncing (based on server time, not client)
dict.integer occasion.updated_at.to_i
dict.key 'date' # example of a valid date format string
dict.date occasion.starts_at.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
dict.key 'deleted' # example of passing a boolean value (which might also be nil)
occasion.deleted? ? dict.true : dict.false
dict.key 'title'
dict.string occasion.title
dict.key 'location'
dict.string occasion.location
dict.key 'type' # example of passing rails style STI behavior to Core Data
dict.string occasion.type.to_s
dict.key 'categories' # simple related data example where we flatten them to a readable string
dict.string occasion.categories.collect{|e| e.title}.to_sentence
dict.key 'body'
dict.string occasion.body
dict.key 'occasionId'
dict.integer occasion.id
dict.key 'duration'
dict.integer occasion.duration
end
end
end
end
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