Don, I currently use a similar method of authenticating my users in Flex and store user access information. My method might not be the best, but it works well for my configuration. I am using modules and other components that check login information. Here it is: I store all user data in an object that is a singleton. I instantiate this class in the main application on initialization and set the data once there is a valid login. I then access this class in any of my modules, components, etc throughout the application. I have no problem with the binding, so far. When the class is instantiated, you always go after the data in a getInstance method for the users data. Every component now sees the same exact reference data.
I use this method, because my Flex applications may be authenticated already in another Flex application or Web Form and I have an initialization process in each application that checks for authentication the same exact way. I extended Application to authenticate a user. The process checks for a valid user login. If the user is logged in already, a call is made to populate the user data into the singleton. If not, the application loads a login module. Once a valid login is accomplished, the user data is populated. There are plenty of examples out there of using a singleton class if you do not have one. Regards, Tony donvoltz wrote: > > What is the best way to make the data in a custom class globally > accessible to a multi-component application? > > I have a custom component called userlogin that consists of a form and > connects to a database. When a user correctly logs in, the database > returns a number of fields of data that I then use to fill the > properties of a custom class called User, this instantiation of User > is called currentUser typed as User. > > Another component called menuBar is an application control bar that > allows for various selections based on the users site access level > (stored in the custom User class) as well as the user name to show who > is currently logged in. > > The problem I am having is how do I access the data stored within this > custom class? I have set the class itself to Bindable with a metatag > and also set currentUser to bindable, however, the menuBar component > does not recognize this. > > I am at a loss of how to access this data. I guess I could create a > custom event dispatcher and send this class data with an event and > listen for this event in the menuBar component, however, this does not > seem like the best idea. In this way I would need to store twice as > much data and consume more resources. Is there another way to use this > custom class data? > > Thanks for any help > > Don > > _ > . > >
