Thanks, the casting directly to ArrayCollection using as did work. I was doing this initially, and then made some other changes to get rid of another error and forgot to change back.
Andre, this isn't production code and I got it off of Cristophe's TestDriver server (http://coenraets.org/blog/2007/01/flex-data-management-services-tutorial/) but thanks for pointing this out. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "André Rodrigues Pena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Man.. Just remove the throws of your getList() method. Never use throws at a > service method. (specially in this example where the throws is USELESS > because you are already treating the exception with the try clause) The > throws clause passes the exception treatment to a higher scope, this scope > may not import de DAOException needed to process it properly. Simply never > do this. > > On 2/12/07, ytseshred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm using RemoteObjects to connect to my backend. In one of my calls > > I'm trying to return a List of VO's I create after hitting my database. > > > > On the Flex side, my result event is firing properly, but when I try > > to convert the result to an ArrayCollection, instead of getting a > > proper ArrayCollection I get single element that displays the > > following when I output it in an alert: "obj is: '[object TestVO], > > [object TestVO], ... [object TestVO]'". > > > > If I return a single TestVO object directly instead of a List, I can > > properly cast the result to my ActionScript TestVO object and view the > > data properly. It's just returning the List that's giving me problems. > > > > Can anyone offer any suggestions please? > > > > My Flex result code is: > > > > public function result(evt:Object):void { > > if(evt.type && evt.type == ResultEvent.RESULT) { > > var re:ResultEvent = evt as ResultEvent; > > var col:ArrayCollection = new > > ArrayCollection(ArrayUtil.toArray(re.result)); > > if(col) { > > Alert.show("obj is: '" + col.getItemAt(0) + "'"); > > } > > else Alert.show("Didn't cast properly!"); > > } > > } > > > > My Java DAO code that returns the list is: > > > > public List getList() throws DAOException { > > List list = new ArrayList(); > > Connection c = null; > > > > try { > > c = ConnectionHelper.getConnection(); > > Statement s = c.createStatement(); > > ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM test"); > > while(rs.next()) { > > TestVO vo = new TestVO(); > > vo.id = rs.getInt("id"); > > vo.data = rs.getString("data"); > > list.add(vo); > > } > > } catch(Exception e) { > > e.printStackTrace(); > > throw new DAOException(e); > > } finally { > > ConnectionHelper.close(c); > > } > > return list; > > } > > > > > > > > > > -- > André Rodrigues Pena > > LOCUS > www.locus.com.br > > Blog > www.techbreak.org >
