Thank you for the suggestion, it worked perfectly.
Curtis Barrett
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Amy <amyblankens...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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
>
>
>
