--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Curtis Barrett
<curtis.barr...@...> wrote:
>
> Right now I'm playing around with the RemoteClass feature with a few
> ActionScript classes. What I've noticed is that if I have a single
object I
> can nest AS classes. So if I have two AS classes foo and bar I can
have the
> following work
>
> [RemoteClass(alias="com.ca.foo.Foo")]
> public class foo
> {
> public var ID:int;
> public something:bar;
> }
>
> this gets converted correctly when I call a function that returns a
foo.
> bar is correctly identified as a bar and is placed as such.
>
>
> Now here's where I've run into trouble. If I try to have an array
of bars I
> can't figure out how to get this to work correctly. Example:
> [RemoteClass(alias="com.ca.foo.Foo")]
> public class foo
> {
> public var ID:int
> [ArrayElementType("MenuItemSetting")]
> public something:ArrayCollection;
> }
>
> This does not work. When I return from the remoteObject call foo
is done
> correctly up to the ArrayCollection. The ArrayCollection has
objects in it
> instead of MenuItemSettings.
>
> Here is the result function that has objects for the
ArrayCollection Items
>
> public function Success(event:ResultEvent):void
> {
> var test:foo;
>
> if(event.result != null)
> {
> test = MenuItemPackage(event.result);
> }
> }
>
> However, here's where it utterly baffles me. In my result function
if I add
> this one line of code to it, the objects for all items in the
collection
> become type bar.
>
> public function Success(event:ResultEvent):void
> {
> var test:foo;
>
> bar(event.result.something[0]);
>
> if(event.result != null)
> {
> test = foo(event.result);
> }
> }
>
>
> I do realize this will have issues if there are no elements in the
> ArrayCollection or if the result is null. What the heck is happing
here? I
> can even put the breakpoint in before the bar(event.result.something
[0]);
> and look at result and it is typed to the bar.
>
> My other question is, can this be done automatically? Or do I need
to leave
> in the bar(event.result.something[0]);?
>
I'd be inclined to guess that the only hard reference to bar in the
class that calls the service is that one line where you call
bar(event.result.something[0]);
Try doing this:
private var dummy:bar;
And see if that fixes the problem
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/11/thoughts-on-remoting.html
HTH;
Amy
