Wow, well done! Thanks for the reply, I will need to read it a few
times to try and mimic your approach, but all this information is most
appreciated.
Quite a shame that Macromedia doesn't support WS calls through
actionscript though...
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Tapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Officially, I don't believe it is supported to call a WebService
directly
> from an AS class, without first having an instance of the
> WebServiceConnector in an mxml file within the application. That
said, I
> have seen it done...
>
>
> Try something like this:
>
> class custom.DataService extends mx.core.UIObject{
>
> var remoteDataService:mx.servicetags.Service;
>
> function DataService() {
>
> }
>
> function init():Void{
> super.init();
> var props = new Object();
> applyProperties(props, props);
> _custom_DataService_webServiceSetup();
> }
>
> function _custom_DataService_webServiceSetup():Void {
> remoteDataService = new
mx.servicetags.Service(this._url,
> "http://localhost:8500/mmcourses/faad2004/dbs/Bikeparts.cfc?wsdl";, new
> mx.services.Log(1, "WebService"), null, this, null, null, null,
null, false);
> remoteDataService.__name = "remoteDataService";
> remoteDataService.__faultHandler = function(event) {
> faultHandler(event)
> }
> remoteDataService.__resultHandler = function(event)
> {
> resultHandler(event)
> }
> remoteDataService.__showBusyCursor = true;
> }
> function resultHandler(event){
> // do something
> }
> function faultHandler(event){
> // do something
> }
> }
>
>
> I created this by turning on "keep-generated-as" in the flex config
file,
> and then ran an app with a WebService in it. The generated AS for that
> mxml file will contain all the correct code to instantiate and use
the service.
>
> I had a DataService.mxml file which looks like this:
>
> <s:ProxyFactory xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml";
> xmlns:s="fast.services.*">
>
> <mx:WebService id="remoteDataService"
> wsdl="http://localhost:8500/mmcourses/faad2004/dbs/Bikeparts.cfc?wsdl";
> result="resultHandler(event)" fault="faultHandler(event)"
> showBusyCursor="true" useProxy="false"/>
> </s:ProxyFactory>
>
> Which generated this AS:
>
> // C:\Program
>
Files\Macromedia\Flex15\jrun4\servers\default\flex\MAX05\start\custom\DataService-generated.as
> class custom.DataService extends fast.services.ProxyFactory
> {
> var remoteDataService:mx.servicetags.Service;
>
> function DataService()
> {
>
> }
>
> function init():Void
> {
>
> super.init();
>
> var props = new Object();
> applyProperties(props, props);
>
>
> _custom_DataService_webServiceSetup();
>
> }
>
> // Event handler functions...
> function _custom_DataService_webServiceSetup():Void
> {
> remoteDataService = new
mx.servicetags.Service(this._url,
> "http://localhost:8500/mmcourses/faad2004/dbs/Bikeparts.cfc?wsdl";, new
> mx.services.Log(1, "WebService"), null, this, null, null, null,
null, false);
> remoteDataService.__name = "remoteDataService";
> remoteDataService.__faultHandler = function(event) {
> faultHandler(event)
> }
> remoteDataService.__resultHandler = function(event)
> {
> resultHandler(event)
> }
> remoteDataService.__showBusyCursor = true;
> }
>
>
> }
>
> Once you have the genreated AS, you can rename it as DataService.as,
and
> rename the DataService.mxml to something else. So long as the
> DataService.as file is in the same directory, it will continue to run
> without issue. My example uses the Macromedia FAST Toolkit for the
Data
> Services, but that is not a requirement for making this work.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 02:44 PM 8/26/2005, inajamaica wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >I have been up & down the flex documentation and the web (& searched
> >through alot of this forum), but I can't seem to find a concrete
> >example of calling a webservice and using the WebService object SOLELY
> >with ActionScript.
> >
> >I have the following so far:
> >
> >//supposedly, this parses the wsdl so that...
> >var ws = new WebService (wsdlLocation);
> >ws.setEndpointURI
> >("<http://somewhere.com/endpoint>http://somewhere.com/endpoint";);
> >//...I can just do this:
> >result = ws.anOperationDefinedInTheWSDL (parameter);
> >
> >But I know I'm missing something here...anyone have experience here?
> >For the insane cost of Flex, it's hard to believe that I can't find
> >ALL this info @ Macromedia's website.
> >
> >Thanks..
> >
> >
> >
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