For me the important piece is fetching and sending binary data and HTTP codes.
(I have a wrapper around it to handle errors, error codes, multipart uploads,
etc.)
I have not studied the new HTTPService class very well, but the original
version was very rigid about the type of data it got.
On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:53 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> What does URLLoader do that HTTPService doesn't?
>
> -Alex
>
> On 7/3/16, 9:36 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me explain a bit better why I’m asking.
>>
>> Yishay and I are working on a URLLoader class which will behave similar
>> to the Flash URLLoader class. Is there any reason not to make both the
>> Flash and JS version extend EventDispatcher? From what I can see, the
>> flex EventDispatcher on the JS side extends goog.events.EventTarget. Is
>> there a concern with using that instead of HTMLElementWrapper (which as I
>> understand it uses native DOM elements to dispatch events)?
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2016, at 5:52 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I’m not sure my question made sense, but I do have a related question:
>>>> Why this?
>>>> COMPILE::SWF
>>>> public class HTTPServiceBase extends EventDispatcher
>>>> {
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> COMPILE::JS
>>>> public class HTTPServiceBase extends HTMLElementWrapper
>>>> {
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Why is the JS side not extending EventDispatcher as well?
>>>
>>> IMO, some code somewhere as to abstract the platform differences and do
>>> it
>>> as thinly as possible for performance reasons, so the inheritance chain
>>> for classes don't have to be the same, the API surface they present
>>> does.
>>> I think there will be more emphasis on Interfaces like IEventDispatcher
>>> instead of base classes like EventDispatcher in FlexJS. It should keep
>>> us
>>> from wasting code trying to make everything look the same under the
>>> covers
>>> and prevent huge chains of class dependencies that make it hard to have
>>> separation of concerns and small applications.
>>>
>>> Or maybe I'm not understanding your question...
>>>
>>> -Alex
>>>
>>
>
