Hi Alex, Fair enough. I submitted it (I think), although I got this message:
"You have successfully created the issue (FB-23715), however you do not have the permission to view the created issue. This is probably because you entered a bug report that details a potential security vulnerability - or is related to a non-public component in a commercial product." I do not feel experienced enough to know which categories to submit the bug under, but I included source code to reproduce the bug. Alex, thank you for your continual help to the community. --Geoff --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Please file a bug with a small test case. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Geoffrey > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:35 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: SharedObject problem/bug? Cannot store a subclass > of ByteArray. > > > > > Hi Sean, > > Thank you for the link; still no luck. I had tried implementing > IExternalizable before, but after reading your article I decided to try > again. I have figured out a little more: > > --I can extend, say, a Sprite, and it works fine. > --When I save the SharedObject, if I use the Sprite-based class, there are > two calls to writeExternal(). But for the ByteArray-based class, there is no > call to writeExternal(). > --When I load the SO, the constructor for the Sprite-based class gets called. > The constructor for the ByteArray-based class does not get called. > > I suspect that Adobe's serialization/deserialization code has something that > checks for type ByteArray (e.g., if (x is ByteArray)). On the write-side, it > would then call something like writeBytes(), and only call writeExternal() if > not a ByteArray. On the read-side, it may do something similar when type > casting. > > At this point, I will probably try a workaround for my situation. (E.g., > encapsulating the ByteArray) But if anyone gets this to work, I would be > interested to know. > > --Geoff > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > "seanmcmonahan" <sean@> wrote: > > > > I'm having a similar problem with a subclass of Dictionary. Unfortunately I > > haven't has an opportunity to try this fix yet, but maybe you'll find it > > useful: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/850466/properly-serializing-flash-utils-dictionary-to-a-sharedobject > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "Geoffrey" <geoffhom@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Muzak, thank you for your help. However, I have already tried > > > [RemoteClass] (which I mentioned in the original post). I also looked at > > > the link that you provided and decided to try more combinations, but none > > > worked. I have tried [RemoteClass] with and w/o [Bindable], > > > [RemoteClass(alias="ByteArrayPlus")], and I made sure to use my class > > > beforehand. In all cases I can get a custom class to retain its type, but > > > ByteArrayPlus always gets read as ByteArray from the SharedObject. > > > > > > I believe this may be a problem peculiar to ByteArray, but I don't know > > > exactly why that would be so. > > > > > > Again, the challenge is this: make any class that extends ByteArray, > > > write it to a SharedObject (to the disk), read it from the SharedObject, > > > and have it retain its class. I know it sounds straightforward, but I > > > cannot get it to work. > > > > > > --Geoff > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > "Muzak" <p.ginneberge@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Add a RemoteClass metadata tag to the custom class: > > > > > > > > Example at the bottom of the article > > > > http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_How_to_keep_the_type_of_your_objects_when_serializ-8323.html > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Geoffrey" <geoffhom@> > > > > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:45 PM > > > > Subject: [flexcoders] SharedObject problem/bug? Cannot store a subclass > > > > of ByteArray. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I have a subclass of ByteArray (let's call it ByteArrayPlus), which I > > > > > want to write to a SharedObject. I can store it fine, but > > > > > when I read it back, it says it's of type ByteArray, not > > > > > ByteArrayPlus. Does anyone have an idea what may be wrong? Has anyone > > > > > gotten this to work? > > > > > > > > > > FYI, I am already using registerClassAlias(). And it works fine with > > > > > a custom class, and with a custom class extending another > > > > > custom class. I also tried implementing IExternalizable, but that did > > > > > not help. I also tried [RemoteClass] and > > > > > [RemoteClass(alias="ByteArrayPlus")]. > > > > > > > > > > Also, ByteArrayPlus is really simple: I only added a String (name) to > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > This is my first post to FlexCoders. > > > > > > > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > --Geoff > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
