I was about to post a question on 'Using Value Objects
with CFC' and your example explains it all.
Thanks again.
Mohanraj
--- "Mehdi, Agha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can also implement mapping like this
>
> =============================================
> 1. AS VO
> ----------
> Class TestVO
> {
> public var test1 : String;
> public var test2 : Array;
>
> function TestVO ()
> {
> Object.registerClass ( "testVO", TestVO );
> }
> }
>
> testVO = new TestVO();
> remoteObject.passToCF ( testVO );
> =================================================
>
> 2. CF
> ----------
> <cffunction name="getASObject" returntype="any"
> access="remote">
> <cfargument name="testVO" type="struct"
> required="yes">
>
> <cfset var _asVO = arguments.testVO.getType()>
> <cfset var _cfVO = CreateObject( "component", _asVO
> )>
>
> <cfset _cfVO["test1"] = arguments.testVO["test1"]>
> <cfset _cfVO["test2"] = arguments.testVO["test2"]>
> </cffunction>
>
> <cffunction name="passASObject" returntype="struct"
> access="remote">
> <cfargument name="cfVO" type="TestVO"
> required="yes">
>
> <cfset var _asVO = CreateObject( "java",
> "flashgateway.io.ASObject"
> ).init()>
>
> <cfset _asVO.setType( "testVO" )>
> <cfset _asVO["test1"] = arguments.cfVO["test1"]>
> <cfset _asVO["test2"] = arguments.cfVO["test2"]>
>
> <cfreturn _asVO>
>
> </cffunction>
>
===========================================================
>
> 3. AS receiving the VO from CF
> --------------------------------------
> public / private var testVO : TestVO;
> testVO = event.result;
> ==============================================
>
> That should get you going. You might wanna make this
> mapping a process,
> which your service layer invokes before getting Vos
> into and out of your
> backend. You can make it so that you define
> variables of your CF VO as
> properties and loop over the properties to auto
> populate the AS VO going out
> and the same when you read the AS VO. You might also
> wanna look into Tartan,
> which has this mapping built into it and offers
> seemless integration.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:59 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to pass AS Objects to
> a CFC
>
>
> I believe the solution Dirk provided solves this
> problem as well.
> That is, in addition to Mehdi's initial solution #2:
>
> > > > remoteObject.cfFunction ( toPass, true );
>
> You can use named argument syntax:
> remoteObject.cfFunction({arg1:toPass});
>
> Where arg1 is also the name of the argument in the
> CFC method "cfFunction".
>
> Mohanraj, this is the solution I posted in my blog:
>
http://tomlink.net/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=BBFE84D5-7E97-A3B0-EE0B2D
> C292F5272F, where you also posed this question.
> Please correct me if I am
> missing something.
>
> -tom
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mohanraj Jayaraman
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 5:44 PM
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to pass AS Objects
> to a CFC
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the explantion Peter. That really
> helps.
> > Mehdi thanks for yet another Tip.
> > It works in FLEX.
> >
> > Mohanraj
> >
> >
> > --- "Mehdi, Agha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Peter for the explanation. That explains
> it.
> > > I am glad it worked
> > > Mohanraj.
> > >
> > > There's one more way of doing it without having
> to specify the other
> > > argument.
> > >
> > > var testObject = new Array(); // it has to be
> an array. It won't
> > > work if you did new Object()
> > >
> > > testObject["var1"] = "var1";
> > > testObject["var2"] = "var2"
> > >
> > > remoteObject.cfFunction ( testObject );
> > >
> > > <cffunction name="cfFunction" access="remote">
> > > <cfargument name="testObject" type="struct">
> </cffunction>
> > >
> > > It works in Flash. Haven't tried it on Flex but
> shouldn't have any
> > > problems.
> > > It is simple if all you want to pass is an
> object with some
> > > properties instead of sending over a class.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Peter Farland
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:25 AM
> > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to pass AS Objects
> to a CFC
> > >
> > >
> > > The history of this problem stems way back from
> > > Flash Remoting in ColdFusion
> > > 6.0.
> > >
> > > ActionScript 1.0 APIs for Flash Remoting
> introduced
> > > "named arguments"
> > > for CF-based invocation. The syntax for passing
> > > named arguments was usually
> > > listed like this in documentation:
> > >
> > > myCFService.cfFunction({var1:"foo",var2:"bar"});
> > >
> > >
> > > Which was intended to match a CFC API:
> > >
> > > <cffunction name="cfFunction" access="remote">
> > > <cfargument name="var1">
> > > <cfargument name="var2">
> > > </cffunction>
> > >
> > > The {} syntax, however, really just means an
> untyped
> > > Object, so this
> > > invocation information is lost once it is
> serialized
> > > over AMF.
> > >
> > > But AMF isn't the real issue - the Flash
> Remoting
> > > gateway can't adapt
> > > accordinly as it can't get the necessary CFC API
> or
> > > argument type
> > > information from the CFC function before
> invoking it
> > > (a limitation in CF),
> > > so now it has a problem - how would it know that
>
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