entity expansion has grown too large error when retrieving statements for a subscription

[ryoung]

I'm getting a RuntimeError (entity expansion has grown too large) when retrieving statements for a subscription using Chargify::Subscription.find(12345).statements. After some investigation, it looks like the XML response is too large to parse for some statements with a large number of transactions.

Is there a recommended solution here, other than to increase REXML::Document.entity_expansion_text_limit to a huge limit? Is there a way to use another XML parser?

Thanks

[ryoung]

It looks like we can change the format to JSON by doing Chargify::Base.format = :json. This gets around the XML parser runtime error.