Nick Just for future reference...
var myContact : ContactPerson = new ContactPerson(); myContact = ContactPerson(myPerson); is a good example of how memory leaks occur. You create a new variable of a specific type and then allocate some memory for it with the new operator. The variable is just a pointer to a specific piece of memory. You then immediately change the pointer to point at another piece of memory. The original piece of memory that you allocated is now dangling with no way to access it and will need to wait on the garbage collector to reclaim it. The proper way to do what you are trying is: var myContact:ContactPerson = ContactPerson(myPerson); --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nick Middleweek <n...@...> wrote: > > Hello... > > We've just run into a problem... Has anyone else come across this before? > > We're making HTTP Service calls and we're getting back nested data. We have > set the resultFormat="e4x" which we then parse into known Object types, such > a IContactData, IInvoiceDetails... > > The Problem: With some service calls, the data returned has 4 or more levels > of nested data. In these cases, Flex isn't giving us XML. It is just > returning an untyped Object with the nested data. > > If the returned data has 3 levels or less of nested data then we get XML. > > > We then thought, ok... The untyped Object returned by Flex does have all the > properties required to Cast it to our typed Object, e.g. IContactData... > > But we are getting a "Coercion failed" message by the Compiler. Here's a > basic example of the problem... > > > var myPerson : Object = new Object(); > myPerson.age = "25"; > myPerson.sex = "dunno" > myPerson.name = "Nick"; > > > var myContact : ContactPerson = new ContactPerson(); > myContact = ContactPerson(myPerson); > // Where ContactPerson is a typed Object with age, sex and name String > properties. > > > > So has anyone managed to solve the 4 levels of nested data problem from an > HTTP Service call? > > and :) > > Why can't we cast an untyped Object into a typed Object? :) > > > Cheers guys... > > Nick >
