Hi James, HTTPService has a contentType property that can be set to HTTPService.CONTENT_TYPE_XML or HTTPService.CONTENT_TYPE_FORM. If you specify CONTENT_TYPE_FORM (the default) the 'request' that you send needs to be an anonymous Object. The name/value pairs in the Object will be application/x-www-form-urlencoded into the body of a POST.
If you specify CONTENT_TYPE_XML the 'request' really should be XML. If you use this content type but pass an anonymous Object, an attempt is made at serializing it to XML but I'd recommend generating the XML yourself because the automatic Object serialization isn't XML Schema aware. If you set 'request' to be a typed AS class instance, in the CONTENT_TYPE_FORM scenario if your type was 'dynamic', any enumerable key/value pairs would be encoded into the POST but that's it. If the type isn't dynamic, it has no enumerable name/value pairs so the request body ends up empty. If you used CONTENT_TYPE_XML your instance would be wrapped as XML but not in the way you'd want. So the moral of the story is to stick with anonymous Objects or XML for the 'request' based on the 'contentType' you're using. To wrap up, here's why a request may be sent as a GET versus a POST (or vice versa), when you've explicitly asked for the other via the 'method' property: 1. If you set the 'method' to GET but use CONTENT_TYPE_XML, the assumption is that you want that data sent and a POST is used because an XML payload can't be sent on the URL. 2. If you set the 'method' to POST but pass an empty 'request' (by using CONTENT_TYPE_FORM with a non-dynamic typed instance as your 'request') the underlying flash.net.URLLoader switches the method to GET automatically. This is core player behavior, and I've logged a bug asking that the user-assigned 'method' always be respected even if it results in a POST with an empty body. I hope that helps explain the current behavior. Best, Seth -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Polanco Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:53 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] AS HTTPService ignoring method propety Hey all, I am using the ActionScript HTTPService and I found an issue with it. I feel its a bug, but I may have been "misusing" the functionality and I got away with it until I pushed too far. Here is the problem/issue: I have a JSP app that I am calling via HTTP that returns XML data. One of the services requires that the data comes in via POST and not GET. No biggie, just set the method propert... or so I thought. When I called the app it kept coming back with "" and after looking at the HTTP headers we realized it was always coming in as a GET even though I explicitly set it to POST. This is where things started to get odd... some of my service calls (all routed through the same service code) came out as POSTs and some as GETs. I was able to track down the cause and it was all based around the format of the object that I was passing to the request property. For example, if I did it this way my call became a POST (as desired) myService.request = {zip: "94103}; If I created a custom VO class that had public properties that matched the required parameters it converts to GET on the call(protocode): class MyZipVO { public var zip:String = "94103"; } ---- var temp:MyZipVO = new MyZipVO(); myService.request = temp; I didn't catch this at first because my previous services worked as either GET or POST but once I tried to access the one that required POST it all blew up. Anyway, I figured it out and I can work around it, but any idea on why this fails or if this should work in the first place? James -- 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/
