My company currently has CFMX7 and we have our objects aliased in ActionScript and ColdFusion. I had recently been trying to return the objects back to ActionScript using the __type__ method, but did not realize that this was a CF8 feature at first.
I have incorporated this method into our VOs and passing a struct back from ColdFusion with one key being ['__type__'] = "fully qualified qualified class name". When this is returned from ColdFusion to ActionScript, I then loop over this array of structs and build the AS VOs dynamically somewhat replicating the "automagic" method that CF8 and LiveCycle both use. If we ever do switch to CF8, I figure there would be very little to alter to get us moved over. However, I ran into a snag once I returned everything to our calling object. A coworker of mine wrote a ConcurrentRemoteObject that allows queuing of remoteobject calls and handles the requests via a static method call (thus cutting out much of the add/remove event listener, operation/remote object declaration). This object is included in a remote request library which is then included in the project build path via the source path tab. When I try to dynamically build the object I'm checking for __type__, if found, I use getDefinitionByName create a new class() from this, then set any necessary properties. These methods are called in the ConcurrentRemoteObject which does not (and should not) include every other VO library. I'm getting the error "ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable AddressType is not defined. at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()" The code it is referring to is: var classRef:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName( object['__type__'] ) as Class; I'm guessing this error is being thrown because there is no reference to the AddressType library from the remote request library. Now for my question: does anyone know a method that would allow me to get around this problem (without having to include references to every other library, which is not an option)? Otherwise, I have to include my 2 object building functions in each library if I want to use them.
