Alaric, I agree that simple types are only supported - the docs you identify, Matt's comments, and my own trial-and-error support that conclusion.
My challenge is that the default operation of the server-side application I am trying to communicate with uses the nested form. While in my specific case, I might be able to change the way this works, it seems that it should not be too much to ask for Flex to be able to fully support what is a valid HTTP construct. Interestingly, I know of at least one vendor that defined a class to map seamlessly between a Java data structure and complex HTTP data and made it part of their core APIs. Being able to create a (potentially recursive) hash table worked extremely well and allowed the use of arbitrary depth and hence arbitrarily complex data. Having used this form to stuff highly nested structures like EDI and similar business-to-business documents into HTTP, I can attest that something similar in ActionScript could be extremely useful. Unfortunately, at present it does not appear that the current limitations can be resolved by anyone outside Macromedia. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of alariccole Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 1:17 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Using HTTPService to POST complex data The problem is the nested object category.name. You can only pass simple variables, as they're converted to HTTP (e.g. name=Test&commit=Create). As taken from the FB help file: "When you use explicit parameter passing, you can specify an object that contains name-value pairs as a send() method parameter. A send() method parameter must be a simple base type; you cannot use complex nested objects because there is no generic way to convert them to name-value pairs." So just change it to something like: <mx:request> <categoryName>Test</categoryName> <commit>Create</commit> </mx:request> -Alaric --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried moving your custom values as the child tags of > <mx:request> to the same namespace by prefixing them with mx: ? > Alternatively, have you assigned an id to your HTTPService and then used > script to set the request property to an anonymous Object that contains > the properties that you want to POST? > > What do you have set for the contentType? The default should be > "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" which is what you'd want for a form > submission. > > Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of stuff > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:18 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Using HTTPService to POST complex data > > > I am trying to emulate an HTML form submission with HTTPService and I > seem to be missing something on the construction of the associated > request. From the server log of a successful POST I have the following: > > [POST] Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "category"=>{"name"=>"Test"}, > ...} > > At present, my request looks like this: > > <mx:request> > <category><name>Test</name></category> > <commit>Create</commit> > </mx:request> > > ...But that generates a runtime error. I have tried multiple constructs > (Arrays, ActionScript, etc.) but I've not been able to hit on the right > solution. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > -Mark > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
