[flexcoders] Re: Displaying Flash 9 symbols in Flex - Looking for an elegant solution
This might help:
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html
Can I ask why you're building your game in Flex though? Doesn't seem
like it would provide (m)any advantages over straight up Flash.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, pinkmongrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to find an elegant way to display MovieClip symbols
from a Flash 9 swf in a Flex app. I am rewriting my old game
ChipWits (google it) and have a bunch of graphics which I need to
repeat for walls, floors... All the graphics are in Symbols with
auto-generated classes (coffee class for the coffee symbol).
I have it working in a very inelegant manner by putting named
instances of each of the Symbols on the stage. In Flex I call a
function in the swf's Document class that moves the symbol to 0,0
and makes it visible in the swf:
private var mc_Item:MovieClip = null;
public function showInstanceInSWF(itemName:String):void {
// If it has the property draw it
if( this.hasOwnProperty(itemName) ) {
// Get rid of any old instance in the SWF
if(this.mc_Item != null) {
this.mc_Item.visible = false;
this.mc_Item = null;
}
// Point mc_Item to the MovieClip on stage named itemName
this.mc_Item = this[itemName];
if(this.mc_Item != null) {
this.mc_Item.x = 0;
this.mc_Item.y = 0;
this.mc_Item.alpha = 100; // They are alpha=0 in Flash
this.mc_Item.visible = true;
}
}
}
This means that for every piece of floor, wall, etc. onstage I need
to load another SWF.
What I'd like to do is something like:
public function returnSymbolFromClass( className:String ):MovieClip {
var mc:Object = null;
try {
var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName(className) as Class;
mc = new ClassReference();
}
catch(e:ReferenceError) {
trace(e);
}
return MovieClip(mc);
}
and then to take the MovieClip and addChild it in my app outside the
loaded SWF.
This has me pulling my hair out. I am breaking my swf's up so there
is one symbol in each, but again this is very kludgy.
Any help will be grovellingly appreciated.
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[flexcoders] Re: Weird namespace/compiler error in FB2
The namespace should be constructed as if you were in the root of your application. As in, it should always look the same, regardless of where you're 'including' it from. HTH, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, RBullotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no solution... -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2 - Web Service event handlers
I've been using this method ever since I started with Cairngorm. http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000234.cfm It makes a lot of sense and just feels more natural to me to have the commands handle the results and faults since they are the ones requesting the calls anyway. HTH, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jakana1566 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cairngorm 2 app that uses multiple delegates to call different methods of a single web service. The problem is, each delegate adds it's own onResult and onFault events, so that when the web service operation is called, *ALL* of the onResult functions are called instead of just the one associated with the calling delegate. For example, one delegate has the following code: this.service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService (sym_security_standard) as WebService; service.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, sym_security_sp_login_search_onResult); service.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, sym_security_sp_login_search_onFault); Another delegate has the following (similar) code: this.service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService (sym_security_standard) as WebService; service.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, sym_security_sp_group_search_onResult); service.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, sym_security_sp_group_search_onFault); Since there's only one instance of the ServiceLocator, each delegate is registering onResult / onFault events to the *same* object instance, and therefore the onResult event triggers the onResult function of multiple delegates instead of the single/target delegate. Any ideas on how to avoid this? Thanks in advance! -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Samuel, I am not sure why you're comparing FDS and web services so closely. They are 2 different technologies meant to do 2 different things. That is, 2 different ways of getting data to your clients. As for your statement that web services are fully implemented in Flex, that is certainly not the case. I would encourage you to follow the links that Franck, Kaleb and myself posted a few messages ago. Adobe themselves have readily admitted that there are some issues with the existing implementation. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel D. Colak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it thus by implication that FDS become some form of flash Hibernate ? Because personally id like to know if that were the case. In terms of data-sync, this is not part of any webservice specification and as for poll-less server push - well that's just against the whole notion of webservices in the first place and should be relegated to the area of messaging services - not data-services. By the way - it becomes more interesting that the Date format issue is cropping up quite a bit now (even in the PHP world) - Is there per chance a specific way of pushing this for implementation? Being honest, String, Integer, Date, Boolean are standard datatypes which should all be accessible via webservices - any reason why date isnt fully supported yet? Sorry if this sounds like a gripe but it is actually in a few cases, a deal breaker. Samuel On 21/8/06 10:29, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 16:55, Samuel D. Colak wrote: why - Its obvious that actionscript has taken a significant leap in development, so why is everyone here talking about a 3rd product (FDS) to do what you can really easily achieve under AS. There are some use cases, where what FDS gives you (data sync and poll-less server push) is usefull, and a pain to have to write yourself. -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Problem in opening the CSV file as Excel file in the browser
All the sources I found via Google show the header as
application/vnd.ms-excel
HTH,
Ben
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a problem with flex.
The problem is that I have .CSV file, which I want to display as
Excel file in the new browser on clicking a button.
I tried with the following code.
function button_click()
{
var filePath = C:\test.csv;
var objLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
objLoadVars.contentType = application/x-msexcel;
objLoadVars.send(filePath, _blank, POST);
}
It is displaying as plane text file instead of Excel file.
Can anyone please help me?
Thanks and Regards,
Yasu.
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[flexcoders] Problems interpolating a BarChart
I have a BarChart that is displaying its data correctly. I also have a combobox that, upon its change event, calls a function that repopulates the BarChart's dataProvider. The BarChart updates its display as expected, but if I try to set the showDataEffect attribute of any of the child BarSeries components (which I am successfully using on a ColumnChart elsewhere), I get an RTE with the infamous Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. message. The debugger opens and selects a mx.charts.chartClasses.CartesianTransform instance, but other than that I get no feedback on what the actual problem is. At first I thought that maybe it was having trouble scaling some of the BarSeries items to a value of 0, but the more I investigate, the less it seems like that is the issue. So my question is a basic one: does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this or suggestions of where I should further investigate? Thanks, Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Getting started with Cairngorm
This is what mine looks like:
[Bindable]
public class ModelLocator implements
com.adobe.cairngorm.model.ModelLocator
{
protected static var
modelLocator:com.domain.projects.PSA.model.ModelLocator;
And then my getInstance() method:
public static function
getInstance():com.fmr.projects.PSA.model.ModelLocator
{
if(modelLocator == null)
{
modelLocator = new com.fmr.projects.PSA.model.ModelLocator();
modelLocator.arr_selectedPlans = new ArrayCollection([]);
}
return modelLocator;
}
HTH,
Ben
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wrote:
hi list,
i'm trying to use Cairngorm in a flex project (1st attempt), i have a
ModelLocator class that implements the
com.adobe.cairngorm.model.ModelLocator interface, my ModelLocator
class is in a package (org.something.myapp.model), each time i try to
use it i get this error
Circular type reference was detected in ModelLocator -- should i
name it differently?
thanks for the help
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[flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
And my personal favorite:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/47493
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:50 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Here are a couple.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages/47267?threaded=1m=evar=1
tidx=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages/46548?threaded=1m=evar=1
tidx=1
I can confirm that I am working with an Adobe engineer to try and
resolve both issues (our company has a support contract with Adobe),
so they are listening and interested in fixing issues people are
having. I think thats a good sign.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel D. Colak sam.colak@
wrote:
Umm Franck what issues with webservices?
On 15/8/06 20:00, Franck de Bruijn franck.de.bruijn@ wrote:
That¹s exactly what Ben is hammering at.
It¹s too hard to get webservices up and running in a production-like
application easy. It¹s true that Adobe is focussing more on FDS
than on the
support for webservices, which is truely a pity. Let¹s hope it¹ll
change in
the (near) future. I already saw a good sign of an Adobe engineer
trying to
look into our problems.
Cheers,
Franck
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Samuel D. Colak
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:22 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this
code?
Hold on VS buggy ?? My god, that¹s amazing news there was I
thinking for a
moment that M$oft had got it right at least once - fraid to say
im most
disappointed my world has surely shattered frankly I would
advise everyone
that can to use the Eclipse plugin rather than the IDE under
Windows. I have
experienced far fewer issues with Eclipse ;) But I have
experienced SOME !
Im working with both VS.Net 2005 and Eclipse/Flex cant say that
there have
been any issues with WebServices AT-ALL categorically using
actionscript. I
must admit it wasn¹t easy but its a tad different getting use to
asyncronous
webservice calling though Flex¹s event model but I finally managed
to make
something very elegant and scalable. Obviously this isnt for the
fainthearted
and you might have to unlearn somethings from the VS world (as I
did) to deal
with the Flex logic.
If anyone is stuck, give me a shout..
Samuel
On 15/8/06 10:02, sinatosk sinatosk@ wrote:
ah white spaces. convert that URL using urlencode can't
remember the
function/method name but it's around
thats might do the trick :p
On 14/08/06, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Thanks, Ben -
Your code works fine. My code, even after I manually edited to
make it
identical to yours, does not. I can only conclude that Flex
Builder is on
crack. Seriously, I went over it line by line... No differences
except
whitespace. I hope this is not going to become a behavioral
pattern in
Builder... I work with Visual Studio, and there's no room for
more than one
buggy IDE in my life.
Thanks again,
-tom
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mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ]
On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:01 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Does it compile for you without errors?
Yep, this exact code works for me.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute creationComplete=init()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent;
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
private function init():void
{
var myWebService:WebService;
myWebService = new WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWS
ECommerceService.wsdl);
myWebService.addEventListener(load,
loadComplete);
}
private function loadComplete(event:LoadEvent):void
{
trace(ALL GOOD);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
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mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ]
On
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:42 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders
[flexcoders] Re: Best way to find item in ComboBox?
cb.selectedItem = strToSearchFor; Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, gotgoose09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ComboBox with Strings in it. I want to be able to select an item in the ComboBox that matches a specific String. In the past I have written loops that try to find the item by comparing values, but it seems to me that there should be an easier way. Anyone know how this can be done? Thanks in advance. -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Here are a couple.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages/47267?threaded=1m=evar=1tidx=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages/46548?threaded=1m=evar=1tidx=1
I can confirm that I am working with an Adobe engineer to try and
resolve both issues (our company has a support contract with Adobe),
so they are listening and interested in fixing issues people are
having. I think thats a good sign.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel D. Colak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Umm Franck what issues with webservices?
On 15/8/06 20:00, Franck de Bruijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That¹s exactly what Ben is hammering at.
It¹s too hard to get webservices up and running in a production-like
application easy. It¹s true that Adobe is focussing more on FDS
than on the
support for webservices, which is truely a pity. Let¹s hope it¹ll
change in
the (near) future. I already saw a good sign of an Adobe engineer
trying to
look into our problems.
Cheers,
Franck
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Samuel D. Colak
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:22 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this
code?
Hold on VS buggy ?? My god, that¹s amazing news there was I
thinking for a
moment that M$oft had got it right at least once - fraid to say
im most
disappointed my world has surely shattered frankly I would
advise everyone
that can to use the Eclipse plugin rather than the IDE under
Windows. I have
experienced far fewer issues with Eclipse ;) But I have
experienced SOME !
Im working with both VS.Net 2005 and Eclipse/Flex cant say that
there have
been any issues with WebServices AT-ALL categorically using
actionscript. I
must admit it wasn¹t easy but its a tad different getting use to
asyncronous
webservice calling though Flex¹s event model but I finally managed
to make
something very elegant and scalable. Obviously this isnt for the
fainthearted
and you might have to unlearn somethings from the VS world (as I
did) to deal
with the Flex logic.
If anyone is stuck, give me a shout..
Samuel
On 15/8/06 10:02, sinatosk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ah white spaces. convert that URL using urlencode can't
remember the
function/method name but it's around
thats might do the trick :p
On 14/08/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Ben -
Your code works fine. My code, even after I manually edited to
make it
identical to yours, does not. I can only conclude that Flex
Builder is on
crack. Seriously, I went over it line by line... No differences
except
whitespace. I hope this is not going to become a behavioral
pattern in
Builder... I work with Visual Studio, and there's no room for
more than one
buggy IDE in my life.
Thanks again,
-tom
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ]
On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:01 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Does it compile for you without errors?
Yep, this exact code works for me.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute creationComplete=init()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent;
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
private function init():void
{
var myWebService:WebService;
myWebService = new WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWS
ECommerceService.wsdl);
myWebService.addEventListener(load,
loadComplete);
}
private function loadComplete(event:LoadEvent):void
{
trace(ALL GOOD);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ]
On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:42 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this
code?
For your second example, if you wrap the lines other than the
import
inside of a function it should work.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ,
Tom Lee design@ wrote:
I can't figure this out for the life of me - I'm following
other
people's
examples, but still getting errors. This must be something
obvious.
Here's
my code (I've removed the actual WSDL url):
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8
[flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready
Can we assume this will be corrected in a future release? Either by changing when the LoadEvent fires or by adding a separate event to listen for? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Seth Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kaleb, Thanks for providing your WSDL/XSD/service code. We've identified and fixed the issue internally. The problem was that WSDL parsing dispatches the load event after the WSDL is loaded and parsed, but without properly waiting for schema imports to be fetched over the network and parsed. The simplest workaround is to avoid schema imports :-) If that isn't an option, catch the 'Element not resolvable' error and retry your call using a Timer on a short delay. Thanks again for your help closing out this bug, Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kaleb_pederson Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:28 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Hello all, I have provided Bill at Adobe with a copy of the WSDL and XSD for the test service. I haven't received a response but assume that he received them. The WSDL and XSD need not be large. For testing purposes, I created a service that had only a single function that I was able to use to reproduce this problem. I also offered to provide that sample service to them. I'll take a look at www.xmethods.net and see if the error reproduces on some of their publically available services. I'll post back once I know whether or not it reproduces. Thanks. --Kaleb --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Franck de Bruijn franck.de.bruijn@ wrote: Hi Bill, Great to see that someone from Adobe is looking into this. I hope Kaleb is reading this post and can provide you with the WSDL. I personally did not encounter this error myself, but it looks thoroughly investigated by Kaleb. If Kaleb is not responding, it's maybe an idea to create a huge WSDL, then load it and immediately after the LoadEvent try to call an operation. It should fail. If you need help with creating this WSDL I can try. Let me know. Cheers, Franck _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bill Sahlas Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Howdy, I'd like to reproduce this internally here in the FDS QA lab using some of your examples. Can someone on this list forward me a link to a WSDL that is publicly accessible with sample code to execute? Thanks, Bill FDS QA - Adobe Systems Inc. _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Franck de Bruijn Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Hi Kaleb, Cool! Great stuff.. My guess is that the delay is machine dependent, but not necessarily network dependent. I do believe that the LOAD event does indicate that the WSDL actually has loaded successfully. Flex will not need any more access to the network in order to initialize the web service. Anyway, it's a little bit sloppy that the LOAD event does not indicate that the webservice is actually ready for use. I consider this a bug if you ask me. So, maybe this is something we can put on the wish list??? Thanks, Franck _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of kaleb_pederson Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:18 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Frank, I did a bit more research into this. I don't need nearly a second for the WebService to be ready after the load event. I just put the whole process in a loop to see what kind of delay I need to make it work on my box (with the service running on my box). Unfortunately, the delay is probably machine and network dependent and, therefore, would have to be different on other machines. My results were: res[delay in ms] = #
[flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready
Very cool, any ideas on this one? :) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages/47267?threaded=1m=evar=1tidx=1 Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Seth Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is fixed internally and the fix will be included in the next public release. The LoadEvent won't fire until all remote imports (WSDL and Schema) have been fully loaded. Best, Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:24 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Can we assume this will be corrected in a future release? Either by changing when the LoadEvent fires or by adding a separate event to listen for? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Seth Hodgson shodgson@ wrote: Hi Kaleb, Thanks for providing your WSDL/XSD/service code. We've identified and fixed the issue internally. The problem was that WSDL parsing dispatches the load event after the WSDL is loaded and parsed, but without properly waiting for schema imports to be fetched over the network and parsed. The simplest workaround is to avoid schema imports :-) If that isn't an option, catch the 'Element not resolvable' error and retry your call using a Timer on a short delay. Thanks again for your help closing out this bug, Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of kaleb_pederson Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:28 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Hello all, I have provided Bill at Adobe with a copy of the WSDL and XSD for the test service. I haven't received a response but assume that he received them. The WSDL and XSD need not be large. For testing purposes, I created a service that had only a single function that I was able to use to reproduce this problem. I also offered to provide that sample service to them. I'll take a look at www.xmethods.net and see if the error reproduces on some of their publically available services. I'll post back once I know whether or not it reproduces. Thanks. --Kaleb --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Franck de Bruijn franck.de.bruijn@ wrote: Hi Bill, Great to see that someone from Adobe is looking into this. I hope Kaleb is reading this post and can provide you with the WSDL. I personally did not encounter this error myself, but it looks thoroughly investigated by Kaleb. If Kaleb is not responding, it's maybe an idea to create a huge WSDL, then load it and immediately after the LoadEvent try to call an operation. It should fail. If you need help with creating this WSDL I can try. Let me know. Cheers, Franck _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bill Sahlas Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Howdy, I'd like to reproduce this internally here in the FDS QA lab using some of your examples. Can someone on this list forward me a link to a WSDL that is publicly accessible with sample code to execute? Thanks, Bill FDS QA - Adobe Systems Inc. _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Franck de Bruijn Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: WSDLError:Element not resolvable = LoadEvent doesn't imply service ready Hi Kaleb, Cool! Great stuff.. My guess is that the delay is machine dependent, but not necessarily network dependent. I do believe that the LOAD event does indicate that the WSDL
[flexcoders] Re: ComplexType in WSDL with webservice not sending arguments
I get the same result- an empty request that successfully returns an
empty result. Do you have to use the XSD? I am not familiar with these
at all, so I don't understand exactly what purpose it may serve, but I
would not be surprised at all if the WebService library did not
support things like this.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kaleb_pederson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
My webservice has one function, sendStrings(), which takes a
sequence of arg0 values, each of which are strings. Despite the
simplicity of the request, I cannot get the web service to send
anything but an empty request across (other than variation 9 in
which I send XML across). I have tried every variation that I could
think of and have included them below:
I'm hoping that one of you can try this and figure out if this is a
bug or if I'm just completely missing something.
Feel free to hit this service as many times as needed to help with
this issue:
WSDL: http://kibab.homeip.net:8080/myserv/myserv?wsdl
XSD: http://kibab.homeip.net:8080/myserv/myserv?xsd=1
(The crossdomain.xml file is setup to allow everyone access)
If I send Array(One,Two,Three,...) across, the expected result
would be: Array([0]One,[1]Two,[2]Three,...).
Here are the different variations I've tried:
/* NOTE: I fully re-initialize the web service each time:
var ws:WebService = new mx.rpc.soap.mxml.WebService();
ws.addEventListener(LoadEvent.LOAD,loadHandler);
ws.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT,faultHandler);
ws.loadWSDL(http://kibab.homeip.net:8080/myserv/myserv?wsdl;);
// then after the load has completed perform the test
*/
trace(variation1);
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings);
op.arguments = new Array(variation,one);
op.send();
trace(variation2);
ws.sendStrings.arguments = new Array(variation,two);
ws.sendStrings.send();
trace(variation3);
ws.sendStrings.send(new Array(variation,three));
trace(variation4);
ws.sendStrings.send(variation,four);
trace(variation5);
ws.sendStrings(variation,five);
// this function results in a fault event:
// Unexpected parameter sendStrings found in input arguments.
trace(variation6);
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings);
op.arguments = {sendStrings:{arg0:new
Array(variation,six)}};
op.send();
trace(variation7);
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings);
op.send({sendStrings:{arg0:new Array(variation,six)}});
trace(variation8);
var xml:XML = new XML(ns1:sendStrings
xmlns:ns1=http://server.webservices.tutorials.wakaleo.com/; +
arg0variation/arg0arg0eight/arg0 +
/ns1:sendStrings);
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings);
op.send(xml);
trace(variation9);
// this WORKS (but variation 8 does not)
var xml:XMLDocument = new XMLDocument(ns1:sendStrings
xmlns:ns1=http://server.webservices.tutorials.wakaleo.com/; +
arg0variation/arg0arg0nine/arg0 +
/ns1:sendStrings);
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings);
op.send(xml);
trace(variation10);
var op:Operation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings) as Operation;
op.resultFormat = e4x;
var args:Object = new Object();
args.arg0 = new Array(variation,ten);
op.arguments = args;
ws.sendStrings();
trace(variation11);
var op:Operation = ws.getOperation(sendStrings) as Operation;
op.resultFormat = e4x;
var args:Object = new Object();
args.sendStrings = new Object();
args.sendStrings.arg0 = new Array(variation,eleven);
op.arguments = args;
ws.sendStrings();
Please let me know if there is any other information that I can
provide to help resolve this issue.
Thanks for the help!
--Kaleb
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[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions
I'm pretty sure they're called ValueObjects for a reason :) Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Darren Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for reusing events and commands from different places, most of what I could find from the Cairngorm creators suggest that Commands be specific use cases and a Command should always know its context. I suppose if the event payload indicates the context, then you're not violating this rule. I hadn't thought about doing this. I take Steven literally when he says Cairngorm should be a lightweight framework :-) By something else I was referring to something other than a Command (say, a model object) consuming the Delegates. Anything wrong with this? So... you're saying that, for instance, a User vo stored in the Model Locator would not only describe User data fields, but also contain methods with business logic? Like methods that could create delegates and deal with the returned results? It's not OOTB, so I'm not sure it's Cairngorm but it's not against the laws of the universe either, it could work. There *are* examples of vo's out there that do things like track and increment a static emp_id, or populate new vo properties in the vo constructor with values based on some other value stored in the Model Locator, but I'm not sure I'd put alot of business logic in there for several reasons; other developers familiar with Cairngorm wouldn't think to look for that in there... you'd have to change the Front Controller, Commands, and Delegate around... and you'd also be storing business logic inside your data model, which to me would make me feel all itchy. I think limited logic in the vo's, used to intelligently construct that vo, would be cool, but I'm not sure I'd expect to see much else in there. Darren --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Darren Houle lokka_@ wrote: Jeremy... First. I don't see what value the FrontController adds in Flex apps. My initial thought was that it was important to prevent views from coupling to specific commands. Yes, if you subscribe to the idea of an MVC pattern then yes, you need to do this. And if you're not going to do this then you should either design a better pattern... or don't use one at all... but don't code something that's only half Cairngorm. Mostly because if I'm the developer who comes after you and has to reverse-engineer your code one day I'd like to know where things are and not have to quess or re-write it all from scratch :-) That really doesn't hold up though, because the views are coupled to specifc events Yes, Views generate events, but they don't have to be specific, like: AddPublicUserToManagerList(user) they can be generic, like: AddUserToList(user, public, manager) That way several different Views can re-use an Event and your Command can figure out what it should do based on the event args. There's pros and cons, but that's one way to reduce the number of pieces and parts. each of which results in a specific Command being executed. Since the FrontController maintains a 1-to-1 map of Cairngorm events to Commands Not necessarily. Yes, they are normally 1 to 1, but if you want an Event to trigger two Commands you can also do this in the Front Controller: addCommand(AppController.EVENT_ONE, SomeCommand); addCommand(AppController.EVENT_ONE, AnotherCommand); why don't views just run the commands directly? You could, and it's not a terrible thing to argue for fewer pieces, like for instance Delegates are actually optional, but they do help during testing and development because it's easier to point a simple Delegate at a test Service than to find and re-point all the occurances of a Service in your Commands. So, yes, you could do without the Front Controller but by gaining simplicity you'd lose some flexability (as well as confusing another Caringorm developer who's pulling their hair out trying to find where you put your Front Controller.) Next, we're moving most of our remote object calls into the model. The logic that controls what parts of the model get persisted, when, and in what order is complex, and our Commands had become huge and full of logic. As a reuslt of the changes, lots of the classes in the model now make remote calls and implement IResponder. I'm trying to get back to the model of Command kicks off the feature and then gets out of the way. Is there any rule with Cairngorm that says that Commands must do the remote calls? Is it common to use something other than a Command to make remote calls? Do you mean something else making the call to the Service as in a Delegate, or do you mean some other class (maybe a subclass of Command) handling that? As far as vanilla Cairngorm goes there's really just
[flexcoders] Re: Dynamically set method result from Web Service
If you use the IResponder interface you can do this very easily.
IResponder requires you to implement 2 methods.
public function result(data:Object):void
public function fault(info:Object):void
So what you can do is create however many classes you want that
implement the interface, and then call your method like this:
var call:AsyncToken = GroupWS.GetMembers.send();
call.addResponder(implementerOne);
call.addResponder(implementerTwo);
For handling web service calls, you'll be receiving ResultEvent and
FaultEvent objects, so you can do this inside the methods:
var event:ResultEvent = data as ResultEvent;
var event:FaultEvent = info as FaultEvent;
HTH,
Ben
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--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ldyhwke24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just a small question, I've been playing around with - is it possible to
set the result of a method dynamically? Depending on whose calling the
method? I'd like to use one method to populate two different datagrids.
i.e.
private function CurrentUsers():void {
//Current Users
MemberTypeId = 0;
Group = 2;
HistoricalMembership = false;
GroupWS.GetMembers.send();
//set result method here..??
}
mx:WebService id=GroupWS
wsdl=http://localhost/Group.asmx?WSDL http://GroupWS.asmx?WSDL
useProxy=false
showBusyCursor=true
fault=Alert.show(event.toString())
mx:operation name=GetMembers result=can this be set
dynamically?
mx:request
MembershipTypeID{GroupMemberTypeId}/MemberTypeID
HistoricalMembership{HistoricalMembership}/HistoricalMembership
Group{Group}/Group
/mx:request
/mx:operation
/mx:WebService
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[flexcoders] Re: Some Cairngorm questions
While I am sure there are others, the first thing that comes to mind concerning your first question is something I did just the other day. Say you've got a command that you want to execute when you receive data back from a remote call. For debugging or other purposes, you now want to be able to execute that command manually, by clicking a button. Using FrontController and the traditional Cairngorm approach, all you have to do is dispatch the event in the click handler. Without FrontController you have to import, instantiate and call execute() on your Command class. Not to mention you now have instances of your Command class scattered about. Or what if you decide that a Command that is called in various places should be named differently or changed in some other way? Using FrontController you greatly minimize the places in which you need to edit your code. I suppose if you never need to execute the same Command in response to more than one type of event (generally speaking, not Event), then your approach would be fine. As I understand it, Cairngorm generally advocates making remote calls from your delegate classes, not commands. Again, the main advantage I see here is code centralization. You might have five different commands that all need to call the same remote method. If something changes and you need to call that method with different arguments or need to call a different method altogether, using a delegate means you change your code once instead of five times. I am still a relative newcomer to Flex and Cairngorm but the main advantages I've seen and loved so far are the things I've mentioned here; code centralization, defined responsibilities and clear separation of duties for the pieces of your app. Most of the time when I do question a methodology put forth by Cairngorm I simply fall back on the thought that its developers are way smarter and more experienced than myself so they probably have a good reason for whatever they did :) Sorry to ramble, HTH. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jrjazzman23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a couple of questions on my mind that I'm hoping to get some opinions on... First. I don't see what value the FrontController adds in Flex apps. My initial thought was that it was important to prevent views from coupling to specific commands. That really doesn't hold up though, because the views are coupled to specifc events, each of which results in a specific Command being executed. Since the FrontController maintains a 1-to-1 map of Cairngorm events to Commands, why don't views just run the commands directly? Next, we're moving most of our remote object calls into the model. The logic that controls what parts of the model get persisted, when, and in what order is complex, and our Commands had become huge and full of logic. As a reuslt of the changes, lots of the classes in the model now make remote calls and implement IResponder. I'm trying to get back to the model of Command kicks off the feature and then gets out of the way. Is there any rule with Cairngorm that says that Commands must do the remote calls? Is it common to use something other than a Command to make remote calls? thanks Jeremy -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Deserializing WebService call... Flex/Cairngorm
There is a decent chance I am wrong about this but I think when you
use RemoteObject with FDS you set up some sort of Java - AS class
mapping in a config file.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, grahampengelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Ben Franck for your help. Like you Franck I couldn't see why
it would work to cast one completely unrelated thing to another but
this is the way it appeared to be being done in the samples.
Of course, what I hadn't got to grips with is that the two samples
that I was studying are both using RemoteObject rather than WebService
calls and consequently are returning something that can be cast...
Thanks...
Graham
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Nothing definitive here but I do have a couple of suggestions. Any
time I see ObjectProxy mentioned in an error description, I
immediately wonder if makeObjectsBindable is at fault. Try setting it
to false on your WS and see what happens.
Personally, I always use e4x as my resultFormat (for various reasons),
so I don't have experience casting to a custom object but if you do
end up needing to use Franck's suggested methodology I would certainly
recommend creating a factory that will accept the SOAP return values
and return an instance of your custom object.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, grahampengelly graham@ wrote:
I am just getting up to speed with the Cairngorm architecture
and have
been struggling with this problem for a while. I have got to the
point
where I am getting a response from my web service call that has
the data
in that I expect but I cannot seem to get it to deserialize into the
object that I need.
The code (I have used IResponder rather than the cairngorm Responder
here as suggested during an earlier post here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/47366 )
public function result( data:Object ):void
{
var event:ResultEvent = data as ResultEvent;
var testString:String = ;
for each(var thing:Object in event.result)
{
testString += + thing + ;
}
//test alert 1
Alert.show(testString);
//test alert 2
Alert.show(event.result.Id = + event.result.Id + ,
event.result.Name = + event.result.Name);
var tObj:TestObj = event.result as TestObj;
Alert.show(TestObj.Id = + tObj.Id);
}
The test alerts print out:
test 1: Graham 1
test 2: event.result.Id = 1, event.result.Name = Graham
The subsequent line throws an exception:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
mx.utils::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to HASAW.ClientApp.Model.TestObj.
The object that I am trying to create from the results looks like
this:
public class TestObj implements ValueObject
{
public var Id:int;
public var Name:String;
public function TestObj()
{
Id = 0;
Name = ;
}
}
I have tried various implementations and can't get the web service
response to cast to TestObj. To be honest, I wouldn't have thought
that
it should cast to TestObj but I have followed all of the code
samples
for Cairngorm and they all do it like this.
I am using .NET for the web service which may be an issue as the
samples
don't. It is returning the following SOAP in event.result.body
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8 ? - #
soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body - # GetTesterResponse xmlns= - #
GetTesterResult Id1/Id
NameGraham/Name/GetTesterResult
/GetTesterResponse /soap:Body /soap:Envelope
I know I could manually populate the object with the values but the
objects I will be deserializing in the application are much more
complex
than this which would make a manual approach a pain.
Thanks in advance...
Graham
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[flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
Cleaning the project did not work but I have stumbled onto something that looks promising. It looks to be some sort of weird timing issue. First a little background on my app: I am using Cairngorm and have 2 main delegates, lets call them ClientDelegate and DocumentDelegate, each mapping to a single web service (ClientWS and DocumentWS). When my app starts up, I call ClientWS.methodA() via ClientDelegate. After a couple of selections are made, I call DocumentWS.myMethod() via DocumentDelegate, and in the result handler for that call, I call ClientWS.methodA() via ClientDelegate again, but this time with a completely different set of arguments. So ClientWS.methodA() gets called (for the second time in the app) as soon as DocumentWS.myMethod() returns. The odd 'fix' that I have discovered is to put a trace() call just before invoking DocumentWS.myMethod(). It doesn't work if I simply trace out a string literal (trace(weirdness);), but if I trace a property or object, something that might take a couple of milliseconds to process, everything works perfectly. Currently I have this: var op:mx.rpc.soap.Operation = service.getOperation(GetDocument) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; trace(op.service.requestTimeout); Very very strange. I would love to understand what is going on here, can anyone clarify or venture a guess? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean do a Project Clean to rebuild the SWF from scratch. Flashlog.txt would be in c:\documents and settings\account\flashlog.txt by default, though you may not have it if it's not configured. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent This was built from scratch in Flex 2, never even had 1.5 installed. Not sure what you mean by 'build clean'. Where would flashlog.txt be? I will try clearing the bin folder tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: Maybe it's some odd timing problem? Any profiler settings from Flex 1.5 turned on? Have you looked to see if you have a flashlog.txt file that has any info in it? Running in the debugger (even with no breakpoints) would also let you see the output and if there's anything there. You've built clean I assume. Delete everything in the bin folder anyway (with FB closed) and see if that changes anything? Sounds strange, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern
[flexcoders] SOLVED: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
OK, its definitely a timing issue. Rather than dispatching the next CairngormEvent (that triggers the new call) right in my result handler, I moved the event dispatch to another function, and am calling that with a Timer set to a 1 millisecond delay. Works perfectly. So I am not sure what exactly the issue is, but its definitely related to timing. Very odd because my arguments object was always correctly populated (so its not a matter of vars not being ready), but the XML request that Flex generates was all fubar. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean do a Project Clean to rebuild the SWF from scratch. Flashlog.txt would be in c:\documents and settings\account\flashlog.txt by default, though you may not have it if it's not configured. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent This was built from scratch in Flex 2, never even had 1.5 installed. Not sure what you mean by 'build clean'. Where would flashlog.txt be? I will try clearing the bin folder tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: Maybe it's some odd timing problem? Any profiler settings from Flex 1.5 turned on? Have you looked to see if you have a flashlog.txt file that has any info in it? Running in the debugger (even with no breakpoints) would also let you see the output and if there's anything there. You've built clean I assume. Delete everything in the bin folder anyway (with FB closed) and see if that changes anything? Sounds strange, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate constructor service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as WebService; // in the method called by my command class var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; // temp object to store arguments var args:Object = new Object(); args.groupingRequests = new Object
[flexcoders] Re: SOLVED: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
Spoke too soon. This fixes the issue in the debug files that FB generates, but if I view the non-debug files in IE I still get the same problem. Works fine in FF. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, its definitely a timing issue. Rather than dispatching the next CairngormEvent (that triggers the new call) right in my result handler, I moved the event dispatch to another function, and am calling that with a Timer set to a 1 millisecond delay. Works perfectly. So I am not sure what exactly the issue is, but its definitely related to timing. Very odd because my arguments object was always correctly populated (so its not a matter of vars not being ready), but the XML request that Flex generates was all fubar. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: I mean do a Project Clean to rebuild the SWF from scratch. Flashlog.txt would be in c:\documents and settings\account\flashlog.txt by default, though you may not have it if it's not configured. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent This was built from scratch in Flex 2, never even had 1.5 installed. Not sure what you mean by 'build clean'. Where would flashlog.txt be? I will try clearing the bin folder tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: Maybe it's some odd timing problem? Any profiler settings from Flex 1.5 turned on? Have you looked to see if you have a flashlog.txt file that has any info in it? Running in the debugger (even with no breakpoints) would also let you see the output and if there's anything there. You've built clean I assume. Delete everything in the bin folder anyway (with FB closed) and see if that changes anything? Sounds strange, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below
[flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/dealing-with-default-namespaces-in-flex-2as3/
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having some difficulty parsing .Net web service results. The
problem
lies in the fact that Flex's XML parser doesn't like un-typed xmlns
declarations of the type found by default in .Net web services. Try the
following:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=doIt()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
function doIt(){
var myXML:XML =
soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns:soap=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML:
+myXML.descendants(b));
var myXML2:XML =
soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML2:
+myXML2.descendants(b));
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
This code results in the following traces:
Node B from myXML: Hi
Node B from myXML2:
As you can see, the only difference between the two blocks of XML is
that
the successful one uses xmlns:soap= while the unsuccessful one uses
xmlns=. While I am no SOAP expert, I don't believe the 2nd one is
invalid
syntax, so there should be no reason for the XML parser to ignore
it, right?
Anyone have a workaround for me that doesn't require modifying the web
services? (I don't have administrative access to them).
Thanks!
-tom
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[flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
Hi Tom,
Sorry, I've not used the descendants method before and I just assumed
the approach I use would work. If you use .. instead it will work as
expected.
namespace temp = http://tempuri.org/;;
use namespace temp;
trace(Node B from myXML2: + myXML2..b);
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Ben - I've seen this before (I believe you directed me to
this page
on a previous issue). However, I don't understand how it applies to my
particular problem - how would you fix my example using the namespace
directive?
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:46 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/dealing-with-default-namespaces-in-fl
ex-2as3/
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having some difficulty parsing .Net web service results. The
problem
lies in the fact that Flex's XML parser doesn't like un-typed xmlns
declarations of the type found by default in .Net web services.
Try the
following:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=doIt()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
function doIt(){
var myXML:XML =
soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns:soap=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML:
+myXML.descendants(b));
var myXML2:XML =
soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML2:
+myXML2.descendants(b));
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
This code results in the following traces:
Node B from myXML: Hi
Node B from myXML2:
As you can see, the only difference between the two blocks of XML is
that
the successful one uses xmlns:soap= while the unsuccessful one uses
xmlns=. While I am no SOAP expert, I don't believe the 2nd one is
invalid
syntax, so there should be no reason for the XML parser to ignore
it, right?
Anyone have a workaround for me that doesn't require modifying the web
services? (I don't have administrative access to them).
Thanks!
-tom
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[flexcoders] Re: Web services or FDS: which are you using?
Well, I don't have anything to miss since I've not used FDS and don't have experience with Java or CF. I am currently working in a .NET shop, so WS are really the only viable choice (barring WebOrb or whatever). My app pulls in reams of data from the web services, and I like that I can receive it as XML. The .. operator is a godsend when you're dealing with data that might be 15 levels deep in the return 'object'. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is actually a topic I've wondered about. I'm using RemoteObjects with CF/Java as it is just uber kewl to have this serialisation of AS-Java/CFC. Using webservices you lose this kewlness, but is it really a missed thing for you all using web services? Or maybe its the application type that can drive this, eh? A phat Flex app with some really large forms and complex data model my scream for Remote Objects, but a Flex app doing more display of data may not. ??? DK On 8/16/06, Dave Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, We have been huge proponents of using Web Services with Flex for nearly two years now. The majority of the applications we develop for folks use either SOAP or REST styled web services. Some of our clients do use CF and / or RemoteObject back-ends and we work into their infrastructures, but left to our own devices, our reccomendation has always been Web Services. -- Dave Wolf Cynergy Systems, Inc. Adobe Flex Alliance Partner http://www.cynergysystems.com http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 866-CYNERGY --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote: In my ongoing crusade to increase the attention given by Adobe to web service support in Flex, I decided to do a little impromptu survey. My feeling is that its a mistake to focus so heavily on FDS in regards to articles, tutorials and the like when such a small percentage of organizations will actually deploy the technology. So, which are you using? I am more interested in actual production apps, rather than personal projects used for learning or experimentation purposes. Personally, I am evaluating Flex as the front end for an application that relies heavily on .NET web services. Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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 -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
Don't get me started on default namespaces in Flex/AS3... :)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Awesome! That's got it! Thanks so much. Seems odd that we have to
manually declare these namespaces just to parse a little XML,
doesn't it?
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:31 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
Hi Tom,
Sorry, I've not used the descendants method before and I just assumed
the approach I use would work. If you use .. instead it will work as
expected.
namespace temp = http://tempuri.org/;;
use namespace temp;
trace(Node B from myXML2: + myXML2..b);
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Thanks, Ben - I've seen this before (I believe you directed me to
this page
on a previous issue). However, I don't understand how it applies
to my
particular problem - how would you fix my example using the namespace
directive?
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:46 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: XML parser chokes on un-typed xmlns
http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/dealing-with-default-namespaces-in-fl
ex-2as3/
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having some difficulty parsing .Net web service results. The
problem
lies in the fact that Flex's XML parser doesn't like un-typed xmlns
declarations of the type found by default in .Net web services.
Try the
following:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=doIt()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
function doIt(){
var myXML:XML =
soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns:soap=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML:
+myXML.descendants(b));
var myXML2:XML =
soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
soap:Body
a xmlns=http://tempuri.org/
bHi/b
/a
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
trace(Node B from
myXML2:
+myXML2.descendants(b));
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
This code results in the following traces:
Node B from myXML: Hi
Node B from myXML2:
As you can see, the only difference between the two blocks of XML is
that
the successful one uses xmlns:soap= while the unsuccessful one
uses
xmlns=. While I am no SOAP expert, I don't believe the 2nd one is
invalid
syntax, so there should be no reason for the XML parser to ignore
it, right?
Anyone have a workaround for me that doesn't require modifying
the web
services? (I don't have administrative access to them).
Thanks!
-tom
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[flexcoders] Re: SOLVED: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
OK, this is ridiculous. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the problem is back in full force. No amount of delay resolves the problem anymore. This is insane. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, its definitely a timing issue. Rather than dispatching the next CairngormEvent (that triggers the new call) right in my result handler, I moved the event dispatch to another function, and am calling that with a Timer set to a 1 millisecond delay. Works perfectly. So I am not sure what exactly the issue is, but its definitely related to timing. Very odd because my arguments object was always correctly populated (so its not a matter of vars not being ready), but the XML request that Flex generates was all fubar. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: I mean do a Project Clean to rebuild the SWF from scratch. Flashlog.txt would be in c:\documents and settings\account\flashlog.txt by default, though you may not have it if it's not configured. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent This was built from scratch in Flex 2, never even had 1.5 installed. Not sure what you mean by 'build clean'. Where would flashlog.txt be? I will try clearing the bin folder tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: Maybe it's some odd timing problem? Any profiler settings from Flex 1.5 turned on? Have you looked to see if you have a flashlog.txt file that has any info in it? Running in the debugger (even with no breakpoints) would also let you see the output and if there's anything there. You've built clean I assume. Delete everything in the bin folder anyway (with FB closed) and see if that changes anything? Sounds strange, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate
[flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. I don't think that is the case. That is how I call all of my SOAP methods and all but the one in question work every time, and even this one usually works. I tried op.send() and it produces the exact same result as before. I really need to get this figured out. I am doing a presentation on Flex to some senior people in our group on Friday to tout its abilities and a web service intermittently failing is not going to help my cause. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate constructor service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as WebService; // in the method called by my command class var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; // temp object to store arguments var args:Object = new Object(); args.groupingRequests = new Object(); args.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool; args.groupingRequests.Parameters = new Array(); ... populate Parameters array ... op.arguments = args; var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); // results in sendign an object like this ns1:groupingRequests xmlns:ns1=http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
Yes, I actually just finished about a 20 minute 'step into' session where I tried to monitor every step along the way (there are TONS). Unfortunately, it was near impossible to follow the flow of control and figure out where they're getting lost. op.arguments retains the correct data even after the call, so something is happening during the encoding that is not copying the values correctly. The values do not seem to get passed into the AsyncToken even. Below is a piece I copied from the debugger that shows the args object (which gets assigned to op.arguments) correctly populated but the token with empty nodes in its body property. I am at a complete loss. pc = Operation.as$39.OperationPendingCall (@23b2a61) args = Object (@235b881) groupingRequests = Object (@235b781) GroupName = RPRTool Parameters = Array (@2350df1) [0] = Object (@235b701) Name = PLAN_N1 Value = 78167 [1] = Object (@235b6e1) [2] = Object (@235b6c1) [3] = Object (@235b741) [4] = Object (@235b441) [5] = Object (@235b181) [6] = Object (@235b261) [7] = Object (@235b681) [8] = Object (@235bf01) [9] = Object (@235bea1) [10] = Object (@235b521) [11] = Object (@235be41) [12] = Object (@235bca1) length = 13 [0xd] headers = Array (@2357821) token = mx.rpc.AsyncToken (@2129f61) message = mx.messaging.messages.SOAPMessage (@2050c59) body = ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?\nSOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;SOAP-ENV:BodyGetDataByGrouping xmlns=http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures;ns1:groupingRequests xmlns:ns1=http://server.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures;ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest /ns1:DataGroupingRequest //ns1:groupingRequests/GetDataByGrouping/SOAP-ENV:Body/SOAP-ENV:Envelope clientId = DirectHTTPChannel0 contentType = text/xml; charset=utf-8 destination = DefaultHTTP headers = Object (@2259ba1) DSEndpoint = direct_http_channel httpHeaders = Object (@23b2921) SOAPAction = http://server.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures/GetDataByGrouping; messageId = D3441EA6-EBB1-4117-ACA6-11FE678DDBFA method = POST recordHeaders = false timestamp = 0 [0x0] timeToLive = 0 [0x0] url = http://server/Webservices/ClientMeasures.asmx; responders = null result = null --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried using the debugger to see when and where these args turn up null? DK On 8/15/06, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. I don't think that is the case. That is how I call all of my SOAP methods and all but the one in question work every time, and even this one usually works. I tried op.send() and it produces the exact same result as before. I really need to get this figured out. I am doing a presentation on Flex to some senior people in our group on Friday to tout its abilities and a web service intermittently failing is not going to help my cause. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning
[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
That results in this structure being created and sent:
SelectedPlans xmlns=
item xmlns=78167/item
item xmlns=78173/item
/SelectedPlans
Arrays do not seem to have their names preserved consistently. I am
assuming this is affected by the WSDL. Please, get some clarification
into the community on these issues. If my experience is
representative, companies evaluating Flex for web service-based
applications are going to be very discouraged by the lack of
documentation and may once again disregard it as a viable solution. I
would love nothing more than to convince my superiors to use Flex but
with the issues I have been running into it is making it very hard for
me to stand behind it as a solid platform for development that is
heavily reliant on web services.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't you have another array, PlanNumber hanging off the object (not
array) SelectedPlans and be pushing your numbers into that?
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:11 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt,
My current problem and questions are concerning serialization, not
deserialization. Flex is creating SOAP requests differently for 2
methods of the same service, even though the AS is virtually
identical. My only guess is that its due to the WSDL. Here is a recap
from my previous posts.
// SERIALIZES AS EXPECTED AND WORKS CORRECTLY
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=ContainerType
type=tns:ContainerType/
(tns:ContainerType maps to an enum collection)
//
// DOES NOT SERIALIZE AS EXPECTED, CAUSING AN ERROR IN THE WEB SERVICE
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
// ignores the SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
// WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE
RPRSelections
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber78167/PlanNumber
PlanNumber78173/PlanNumber
SelectedPlans
/RPRSelections
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=1 name=SelectedPlans
type=tns:ArrayOfString/
s:complexType name=ArrayOfString
s:sequence
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=PlanNumber
nillable=true type=s:string/
/s:sequence
/s:complexType
I would LOVE to know how to fix this as right now its a total deal
breaker for my project.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote:
I'm not sure how WSDL structure would affect deserialization. We have
mappings of the standard types into ActionScript versions. There's not
a huge number of those types so we map as best as possible. Are you
looking for those exact details? As far as RPC vs. doc-literal, I
believe that the WSDL for a doc-lit generally provides less
information
that we can use so we're less likely to be able serialize or
deserialize
with as much accuracy as we attempt in RPC. If you use
resultFormat=xml or e4x of course the doc-lit services will work
fine,
though I've seen serialization work fine with doc-lit too.
Sorry, not sure if that is very helpful. If you have a more specific
issue I might be able to forward that in, though the engineer who
really
knows our library at this point is on vacation.
Matt
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] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:48 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt,
The types of things I would like to see explained are what I mentioned
in my previous posts. Stuff like how does
WSDL structure affect Flex's serialization of objects? (this is a big
one) and what differences are there in Flex's treatment of Doc/Literal
vs RPC/Encoded web services?
I would also be more than willing to alpha/beta test any new
functionality as my entire app revolves around .NET web services.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders
[flexcoders] Web services or FDS: which are you using?
In my ongoing crusade to increase the attention given by Adobe to web service support in Flex, I decided to do a little impromptu survey. My feeling is that its a mistake to focus so heavily on FDS in regards to articles, tutorials and the like when such a small percentage of organizations will actually deploy the technology. So, which are you using? I am more interested in actual production apps, rather than personal projects used for learning or experimentation purposes. Personally, I am evaluating Flex as the front end for an application that relies heavily on .NET web services. Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate constructor service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as WebService; // in the method called by my command class var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; // temp object to store arguments var args:Object = new Object(); args.groupingRequests = new Object(); args.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool; args.groupingRequests.Parameters = new Array(); ... populate Parameters array ... op.arguments = args; var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); // results in sendign an object like this ns1:groupingRequests xmlns:ns1=http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
This was built from scratch in Flex 2, never even had 1.5 installed. Not sure what you mean by 'build clean'. Where would flashlog.txt be? I will try clearing the bin folder tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's some odd timing problem? Any profiler settings from Flex 1.5 turned on? Have you looked to see if you have a flashlog.txt file that has any info in it? Running in the debugger (even with no breakpoints) would also let you see the output and if there's anything there. You've built clean I assume. Delete everything in the bin folder anyway (with FB closed) and see if that changes anything? Sounds strange, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:54 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent OK, the issue seems to be isolated to my machine. The error began happening again, so I sent a coworker the link to the file on my machine. He can run the app successfully with no issues whatsoever, while I still cannot. I have tried clearing my cache, closing Flex Builder and restarting my machine but nothing seems to help. It seems like this has to be related to something getting screwed up on my machine because it also usually goes away by the time I come in the next day. Is there anything else I can try clearing or resetting? This has to be 'a bug', no? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote: You should be calling op.send(), if you call GetDataByGrouping() you're ignoring the arguments. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate constructor service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as WebService; // in the method called by my command class var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; // temp object to store arguments var args:Object = new Object(); args.groupingRequests = new Object(); args.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool; args.groupingRequests.Parameters = new Array(); ... populate Parameters array ... op.arguments = args; var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); // results in sendign an object like this ns1:groupingRequests xmlns:ns1=http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
The app uses internal web services that are not accessible outside of
our network. I will email you the WSDL tomorrow though and hopefully
they can glean some info from it.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I remember seeing issues like this in 1.5 that I thought we fixed in
2.0. If you have the WSDL and an app that can demonstrate the problem I
can ask the team to look into it.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:48 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
That results in this structure being created and sent:
SelectedPlans xmlns=
item xmlns=78167/item
item xmlns=78173/item
/SelectedPlans
Arrays do not seem to have their names preserved consistently. I am
assuming this is affected by the WSDL. Please, get some clarification
into the community on these issues. If my experience is
representative, companies evaluating Flex for web service-based
applications are going to be very discouraged by the lack of
documentation and may once again disregard it as a viable solution. I
would love nothing more than to convince my superiors to use Flex but
with the issues I have been running into it is making it very hard for
me to stand behind it as a solid platform for development that is
heavily reliant on web services.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote:
Shouldn't you have another array, PlanNumber hanging off the object
(not
array) SelectedPlans and be pushing your numbers into that?
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:11 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt,
My current problem and questions are concerning serialization, not
deserialization. Flex is creating SOAP requests differently for 2
methods of the same service, even though the AS is virtually
identical. My only guess is that its due to the WSDL. Here is a recap
from my previous posts.
// SERIALIZES AS EXPECTED AND WORKS CORRECTLY
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=ContainerType
type=tns:ContainerType/
(tns:ContainerType maps to an enum collection)
//
// DOES NOT SERIALIZE AS EXPECTED, CAUSING AN ERROR IN THE WEB SERVICE
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
// ignores the SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
// WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE
RPRSelections
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber78167/PlanNumber
PlanNumber78173/PlanNumber
SelectedPlans
/RPRSelections
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=1 name=SelectedPlans
type=tns:ArrayOfString/
s:complexType name=ArrayOfString
s:sequence
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=PlanNumber
nillable=true type=s:string/
/s:sequence
/s:complexType
I would LOVE to know how to fix this as right now its a total deal
breaker for my project.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote:
I'm not sure how WSDL structure would affect deserialization. We
have
mappings of the standard types into ActionScript versions. There's
not
a huge number of those types so we map as best as possible. Are you
looking for those exact details? As far as RPC vs. doc-literal, I
believe that the WSDL for a doc-lit generally provides less
information
that we can use so we're less likely to be able serialize or
deserialize
with as much accuracy as we attempt in RPC. If you use
resultFormat=xml or e4x of course the doc-lit services will work
fine,
though I've seen serialization work fine with doc-lit too.
Sorry, not sure if that is very helpful. If you have a more specific
issue I
[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt,
My current problem and questions are concerning serialization, not
deserialization. Flex is creating SOAP requests differently for 2
methods of the same service, even though the AS is virtually
identical. My only guess is that its due to the WSDL. Here is a recap
from my previous posts.
// SERIALIZES AS EXPECTED AND WORKS CORRECTLY
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=ContainerType
type=tns:ContainerType/
(tns:ContainerType maps to an enum collection)
//
// DOES NOT SERIALIZE AS EXPECTED, CAUSING AN ERROR IN THE WEB SERVICE
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
// RESULTING SOAP CALL
// ignores the SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
// WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE
RPRSelections
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber78167/PlanNumber
PlanNumber78173/PlanNumber
SelectedPlans
/RPRSelections
// CORRESPONDING PIECE OF WSDL
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=1 name=SelectedPlans
type=tns:ArrayOfString/
s:complexType name=ArrayOfString
s:sequence
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=PlanNumber
nillable=true type=s:string/
/s:sequence
/s:complexType
I would LOVE to know how to fix this as right now its a total deal
breaker for my project.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure how WSDL structure would affect deserialization. We have
mappings of the standard types into ActionScript versions. There's not
a huge number of those types so we map as best as possible. Are you
looking for those exact details? As far as RPC vs. doc-literal, I
believe that the WSDL for a doc-lit generally provides less information
that we can use so we're less likely to be able serialize or deserialize
with as much accuracy as we attempt in RPC. If you use
resultFormat=xml or e4x of course the doc-lit services will work fine,
though I've seen serialization work fine with doc-lit too.
Sorry, not sure if that is very helpful. If you have a more specific
issue I might be able to forward that in, though the engineer who really
knows our library at this point is on vacation.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:48 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt,
The types of things I would like to see explained are what I mentioned
in my previous posts. Stuff like how does
WSDL structure affect Flex's serialization of objects? (this is a big
one) and what differences are there in Flex's treatment of Doc/Literal
vs RPC/Encoded web services?
I would also be more than willing to alpha/beta test any new
functionality as my entire app revolves around .NET web services.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Matt Chotin mchotin@ wrote:
We have folks working on a complete rewrite of the web service library
in an attempt to really bring it up to snuff. However it won't be
available until the next major release. I believe we do have some web
service articles in the works. If you have suggestions for what you'd
like to see as far as tutorials or articles on the subject let me know
offlist.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
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] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:56 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Franck,
I am also impressed at how powerful Flex + web services seem like they
could be and I don't think my issue is related to a bug. My complaint
is that, as far as I know, there are zero Adobe sponsored articles or
tutorials about using web services in anything but the most basic and
mundane ways. As both of us have said, web services are the mechanism
that will allow the widest adoption and impact of Flex (I also work in
an environment where money is not the deciding factor), yet they have
seemingly ignored the topic in their communications to developers
[flexcoders] Re: Variations of sending arguments to a WebService in AS
I didn't read through all of your code but here is the method I have
been using with success.
var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation;
op.resultFormat = e4x;
// temp object to store arguments
var args:Object = new Object();
args.groupingRequests = new Object();
args.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRToolStaticData;
op.arguments = args;
service.GetDataByGrouping();
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kaleb_pederson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to send some arguments to a webservice, but every
variation I have tried other than generating the XML from scratch
keeps failing (eg. sends an empty message body). Relevant parts of
the WSDL are as follows:
message name=sendStrings
part element=tns:sendStrings name=parameters/part
/message
message name=sendStringsResponse
part element=tns:sendStringsResponse
name=parameters/part
/message
...
operation name=sendStrings
input message=tns:sendStrings/input
output message=tns:sendStringsResponse/output
/operation
And from the XSD:
xs:element
xmlns:ns3=http://server.webservices.tutorials.wakaleo.com/;
type=ns3:sendStrings name=sendStrings/xs:element
xs:complexType name=sendStrings
xs:sequence
xs:element type=xs:string minOccurs=0 name=arg0
maxOccurs=unbounded/xs:element
/xs:sequence
/xs:complexType
xs:element
xmlns:ns4=http://server.webservices.tutorials.wakaleo.com/;
type=ns4:sendStringsResponse
name=sendStringsResponse/xs:element
xs:complexType name=sendStringsResponse
xs:sequence
xs:element type=xs:string minOccurs=0 name=return
maxOccurs=unbounded/xs:element
/xs:sequence
/xs:complexType
Based on everything that I have been able to find in the
documentation and on flexcoders, there are a number of different
ways to send requests to the web service, so I tried each of the
ones that I could find.
However, only one of them succeeds -- specifically, the case where I
build an XMLDocument from scratch and send it. All the other cases
fail -- that is, they do not pass *any* arguments to the web
service.
The following TestCase (which is kind of long) shows the different
variations that have been tried. The main things of interest are
the variationN functions in the beginning of the class as these test
the different ways to call the web service. If TestCase had an
asyncSetup function the sample case could be quite a bit shorter...
(but perhaps I'll work on that next):
package code
{
import flash.events.Event;
import flexunit.framework.TestCase;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent;
import mx.rpc.soap.mxml.WebService;
import flash.utils.describeType;
import mx.rpc.events.AbstractEvent;
import mx.rpc.AbstractOperation;
import flash.xml.XMLDocument;
import flash.xml.XMLNode;
public class TestSendStrings extends TestCase
{
private var ws:WebService;
private static const SERVICE_TIMEOUT:Number = 2000;
private var wsdlUrl:String
= http://192.168.1.108:8080/stockquotes/stock_quote?wsdl;;
private var responseHandler:String;
private var sendStringsFunc:String;
// these are the different variations that I have tried. Of
these
// different variations, variation9 succeeds because I have hand
// crafted a valid message body (NOTE that variation 8 fails and
// that the only difference is XML vs. XMLDocument). variation6
// generates a fault, so it fails for a different reason than
// some of the others
private function variation1():void {
trace('variation1');
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation('sendStrings');
op.arguments = new Array('variation','one');
op.send();
}
private function variation2():void {
trace('variation2');
ws.sendStrings.arguments = new Array('variation','two');
ws.sendStrings.send();
}
private function variation3():void {
trace('variation3');
ws.sendStrings.send(new Array('variation','three'));
}
private function variation4():void {
trace('variation4');
ws.sendStrings.send('variation','four');
}
private function variation5():void {
trace('variation5');
ws.sendStrings('variation','five');
}
private function variation6():void {
// this function results in a fault event:
// Unexpected parameter 'sendStrings' found in input
arguments.
trace('variation6');
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation('sendStrings');
op.arguments = {sendStrings:{arg0:new
Array('variation','six')}};
op.send();
}
private function variation7():void {
trace('variation7');
var op:AbstractOperation = ws.getOperation('sendStrings');
[flexcoders] Operation.arguments is populated but nulls are sent
I am having a very odd error, and it only happens sometimes. I am creating an object structure and then assigning that to the arguments property of my mx.rpc.soap.Operation object like this: op.arguments = args; I then call the SOAP method like this: var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); Sometimes (I've not figured out a pattern), Flex somehow loses all of the contents of the arguments property and sends nulls. It is sending the same number of nulls as there were properties though, so I am super confused. The Operation.arguments object is still populated with the correct data, but none of it gets sent. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I am pasting the entire method from my delegate below. // in the delegate constructor service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as WebService; // in the method called by my command class var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; // temp object to store arguments var args:Object = new Object(); args.groupingRequests = new Object(); args.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool; args.groupingRequests.Parameters = new Array(); ... populate Parameters array ... op.arguments = args; var call:AsyncToken = service.GetDataByGrouping(); call.addResponder(responder); // results in sendign an object like this ns1:groupingRequests xmlns:ns1=http://fmr.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ ns1:DataGroupingRequest/ Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Best way to reference items in a parent MXML component?
I am assuming that will require casting, correct? I think I tried that and by default parent or parentDocument (can't remember which I tried) returns a DisplayObject or something. So I guess I would need something like this? AnalysisStack(parentDocument).someMethod(); Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would a child call a function in the parent though? parentDocument.someMethod(); - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:12 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Best way to reference items in a parent MXML component? How would a child call a function in the parent though? Events don't seem (semantically) like the right thing because I basically just want to use a utility function defined in the parent. Like I have a function that I am using to format the dataTips of my charts in the child components, but dispatching an event every time I roll over a chart item seems a bit tedious and extreme. Is there a better way or do I just need to get used to using events? I come from a Flash background and have not used events very much. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Sergey Kovalyov skovalyov.flexcoders@ wrote: Events must be used here. Your child elements should dispatch custom events and container that holds them should listen to that events. Event listener will handle the child via target property of event object. On 8/12/06, ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote: I have a ViewStack whose child elements each contain a graph. I would like to define some things in the file that holds the ViewStack so that all of the child charts can use them, but am not sure of the best way to reference and call these things. Ideally I would like to somehow pass in a reference to the containing object so that I don't have to pass several items into each child, but have yet to figure out a way to do that. I know there has to be a better way than what I have now: -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Best way to reference items in a parent MXML component?
How would a child call a function in the parent though? Events don't seem (semantically) like the right thing because I basically just want to use a utility function defined in the parent. Like I have a function that I am using to format the dataTips of my charts in the child components, but dispatching an event every time I roll over a chart item seems a bit tedious and extreme. Is there a better way or do I just need to get used to using events? I come from a Flash background and have not used events very much. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sergey Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Events must be used here. Your child elements should dispatch custom events and container that holds them should listen to that events. Event listener will handle the child via target property of event object. On 8/12/06, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ViewStack whose child elements each contain a graph. I would like to define some things in the file that holds the ViewStack so that all of the child charts can use them, but am not sure of the best way to reference and call these things. Ideally I would like to somehow pass in a reference to the containing object so that I don't have to pass several items into each child, but have yet to figure out a way to do that. I know there has to be a better way than what I have now: -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Intermittent #2032: Stream Error errors
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply. I actually thought maybe you were on the right
track but taking a similar approach didn't solve my issue. Rather than
being in the wrong order, my parameters are all showing as null when
in ServiceCapture. I have set breakpoints to confirm that the request
is correctly populated and formatted when I call send(), but something
is messing it up. The weird thing is that calling the exact same
service in a different environment (different url, stored procs and
db) seems to work flawlessly.
I think I may start a new thread for this as the 2032 errors seem to
be caused by my requests being fubar.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mark Doberenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had this issue for a long time.
I'm hoping this is a webservice call you're trying to make, and that
it has
arguments that are needed. Say the arguments are arg1 and arg2 and they
both take string values. Also assume the function is called func1.
Here's
what I would suggest...
var func1:Operation = webserviceObject.func1;
func1.arguments = {arg1:value1, arg2:value2};
func1.send();
The issue is that the argument list for webservices (and possibly http
requests) are hash tables. Hash tables don't guarantee order, so
you need
to create an object and specifically assign a value to a property.
After I implemented this, I pretty much got rid of all of my stream
errors.
Mark
On 8/10/06, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am getting these errors every now and then and I've not been
able to
even begin to understand why. I saw in another thread that someone had
traced a similar issue to HTTP cache control header issues, but that
was only happening in IE. Mine happen in Firefox as well. It usually
fixes it to close the session and republish, but not always. Is this
basically saying it can't find the URL? Has anyone else experienced,
or better yet, solved this? Below is a sample fault message.
[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString=HTTP request error
faultCode=Server.Error.Request
faultDetail=Error: [IOErrorEvent type=ioError bubbles=false
cancelable=false eventPhase=2
text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL:
http://fescov151win/Webservices/ClientMeasures.asmx;]. URL:
http://fescov151win/Webservices/ClientMeasures.asmx;]
messageId=A1575198-9334-D65B-AB26-F9C801601784 type=fault
bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2]
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[flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
For your second example, if you wrap the lines other than the import
inside of a function it should work.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't figure this out for the life of me - I'm following other
people's
examples, but still getting errors. This must be something obvious.
Here's
my code (I've removed the actual WSDL url):
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
var myWebService:WebService;
function initWS(){
myWebService = new
WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(**);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
And here's my error:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method loadWSDL through a
reference with
static type WebService. (Line 9)
I've tried a bunch of different stuff - here's another variation, which
throws different errors:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
var myWebService:WebService;
myWebService = new WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(**);
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
And the errors:
1120: Access of undefined property myWebService. (Lines 8 9)
Thanks!
- tom
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[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Matt, The types of things I would like to see explained are what I mentioned in my previous posts. Stuff like how does WSDL structure affect Flex's serialization of objects? (this is a big one) and what differences are there in Flex's treatment of Doc/Literal vs RPC/Encoded web services? I would also be more than willing to alpha/beta test any new functionality as my entire app revolves around .NET web services. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have folks working on a complete rewrite of the web service library in an attempt to really bring it up to snuff. However it won't be available until the next major release. I believe we do have some web service articles in the works. If you have suggestions for what you'd like to see as far as tutorials or articles on the subject let me know offlist. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:56 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP Hi Franck, I am also impressed at how powerful Flex + web services seem like they could be and I don't think my issue is related to a bug. My complaint is that, as far as I know, there are zero Adobe sponsored articles or tutorials about using web services in anything but the most basic and mundane ways. As both of us have said, web services are the mechanism that will allow the widest adoption and impact of Flex (I also work in an environment where money is not the deciding factor), yet they have seemingly ignored the topic in their communications to developers, in favor FDS at every turn. Like FDS, web services are a very complex topic, but we have virtually no information on the finer points of their implementation. How does WSDL structure affect Flex's serialization of objects (my current issue)? What differences are there in Flex's treatment of Doc/Literal vs RPC/Encoded web services? Those kinds of things. Without Jesse's sample app on how to use web services with Flex 2 + Cairngorm 2 we'd really be screwed. All I am saying is that the focus on FDS seems unrealistic and counter-productive to the overarching goal of massive Flex adoption. I would venture to guess that the overwhelming majority of organizations (90%+) will not deploy FDS. Whether it be due to financial, platform or other infrastructure reasons, it simply doesn't fit into most stacks. That being said, you would think they could give some more detailed info on how to implement the pieces of the framework that the rest of us are going to use. Like I said, I think Flex is great. Really great. I just don't want to see them blow the adoption challenge. Again. Ben PS - I am using Doc/literal web services --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Franck de Bruijn franck.de.bruijn@ wrote: Hi Ben, Let's try not to be too pessimistic, although you might be right that Adobe's focus is more on the FDS part than the webservices part. It must be a hell of a complicated module and indeed, more money to be gained. I have quite some experience now with webservices, and they are extremely difficult to work with. And I don't believe that the first release of a product can be error free. So far, I am quite impressed with the support of Flex for webservices, but there will be bugs. It's up to us to signal them. I agree with you though that webservices is actually the only interesting way of communication with a back-end. For the near future, I don't expect to use any of the FDS features for the applications that I wish to build (and that is for large corporations that could afford the investment of an FDS module). Although webservices are a pain-in-the-neck, they are the only hope for a full heterogeneous world of clients and servers. How are you exposing your webservice? Doc/Literal or RPC/Encoded? Cheers, Franck _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP Hi Franck, I am pretty sure this is all related to types and the fact that Flex will serialize primitive types differently than complex ones. The C# code that creates the WS looks like this for the correctly functioning elements: [XmlArray(ContainersToRetrieve)] [XmlArrayItem(ContainerType, typeof(ContainerType))] ContainerType
[flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
Does it compile for you without errors?
Yep, this exact code works for me.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute creationComplete=init()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent;
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
private function init():void
{
var myWebService:WebService;
myWebService = new WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWSECommerceService.wsdl;);
myWebService.addEventListener(load,
loadComplete);
}
private function loadComplete(event:LoadEvent):void
{
trace(ALL GOOD);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:42 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService - What's wrong with this code?
For your second example, if you wrap the lines other than the import
inside of a function it should work.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
I can't figure this out for the life of me - I'm following other
people's
examples, but still getting errors. This must be something obvious.
Here's
my code (I've removed the actual WSDL url):
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
var myWebService:WebService;
function initWS(){
myWebService = new
WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(**);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
And here's my error:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method loadWSDL through a
reference with
static type WebService. (Line 9)
I've tried a bunch of different stuff - here's another variation,
which
throws different errors:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
var myWebService:WebService;
myWebService = new WebService();
myWebService.loadWSDL(**);
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
And the errors:
1120: Access of undefined property myWebService. (Lines 8 9)
Thanks!
- tom
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[flexcoders] Re: ComboBox doesn't update display unless 'activated' first
Neither of those suggestions work :( Guess I have to stick with what
I've got.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 17:26, ben.clinkinbeard wrote:
// WITHOUT THIS LINE, COMBOBOX WILL NOT UPDATE ITS DISPLAY
ModelLocator.getInstance().arr_selectedPlans.source = arr.toArray();
Should I really have to do this? I thought ArrayCollection was
supposed to have all these magical capabilities... :)
It does, yes.
I assume your control has dataProvider set to model.arr_selectedPlans ?
Maybe it would be better to do:
ModelLocator.getInstance().arr_selectedPlans = arr
should save a few ArrayCollection-Array CPU cycles too :-)
Alternatively:
private var model=ModelLocator.getInstance();
...
var arr:ArrayCollection = model.arr_selectedPlans;
if(evt.cb.selected)
{
// prevent dupes
if(!arr.contains(evt.cb.label))
{
model.arr_selectedPlans.addItem(evt.cb.label);
}
}
else
{
model.arr_selectedPlans.removeItemAt(arr.getItemIndex(evt.cb.label));
}
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[flexcoders] Intermittent #2032: Stream Error errors
I am getting these errors every now and then and I've not been able to even begin to understand why. I saw in another thread that someone had traced a similar issue to HTTP cache control header issues, but that was only happening in IE. Mine happen in Firefox as well. It usually fixes it to close the session and republish, but not always. Is this basically saying it can't find the URL? Has anyone else experienced, or better yet, solved this? Below is a sample fault message. [FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString=HTTP request error faultCode=Server.Error.Request faultDetail=Error: [IOErrorEvent type=ioError bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://fescov151win/Webservices/ClientMeasures.asmx;]. URL: http://fescov151win/Webservices/ClientMeasures.asmx;] messageId=A1575198-9334-D65B-AB26-F9C801601784 type=fault bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2] -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Debugging Web Service call
I've not had not resolvable issues, but I did have some other
significant issues with namespaces in .NET web services, especially
default namespaces. I documented my solutions on my site.
http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/dealing-with-default-namespaces-in-flex-2as3/
http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/datagrid-labelfunction-and-namespaces/
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly what I was looking for, James! Thanks so much... The
request was
not being sent at all, so I stepped into the debugger. It turns out
I have
a WSDL error - looks like the WSDLParser is choking on a namespace,
saying
it's not resolvable. It's one of those ASP.Net default tempuri.org
namespaces. Anyone ever have trouble with ASP.Net web service
namespaces?
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of james_dhap
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:27 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Debugging Web Service call
Hi Tom,
There are two places I would recommend starting with. The first is to
see if any data is actually being sent out by the player to the
WebService. The easiest way to do this is to use an HTTP request
debugger to sniff the outgoing/incoming data. There are a lot of
options out there but I prefer Tamper Data (see my previous post),
mainly because it intergrates with Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/966/
What you want to do with this app (or any other debugger) is to see if
the request is being sent out to the service by the player. If you
don't see a request being sent out then you know that there is some
problem in your Flex code or a conflict in the Flex Framework. If the
data never leaves I would set a breakpoint on the send method and
start stepping into the Framework code and see where it goes wrong.
If you see the request is being sent but nothing is being returned
then you can pursue the service and verify that its not hanging or
doing something wrong.
It's kind of hard to recommend other ideas without seeing your code,
but I totally understand why you can't post it.
-- James
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Yeah, I hate generic questions too, sorry about that. Problem is, I
can't
show you the web services due to company policy, and can't show you
my code
because it would expose the web services. I can tell you that I've
connected successfully to other web services using the same syntax,
so I'm
pretty sure my code's not at fault.
What I'm really after are general tips on debugging web service calls.
Usually you'd look at the fault message when a call fails, but this
failure
isn't generating a fault. Also, it prevents subsequent function
calls from
executing, which I find odd:
function doIt():void{
myWebService.myMethod.send();
//The following will not fire:
Alert.show(Call made to webservice);
}
Sorry I can't post my code. I appreciate anything you might be
able to
offer despite that fact.
-tom
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Behalf Of flexnadobe
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:29 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Debugging Web Service call
Hi Tom,
If you want try to post some code so we can see what you are doing?
There are alot of cool bro's on this site that will help but we will
need a starting point.
cya,
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Lee design@ wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm having some trouble with a WebService call and can't seem to
pinpoint
the trouble. The WSDL loads fine, but any calls to the web service
result
in nothing. No fault, no result, not even the busy cursor (even
though I've
got showBusyCursor=true). Anyone have any suggestions for how I
might
debug this? Are there any low-level status events I can hook into?
I have better luck with the MXNA web services, so I know my syntax
is right.
Thanks!
-tom
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[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Franck, I am also impressed at how powerful Flex + web services seem like they could be and I don't think my issue is related to a bug. My complaint is that, as far as I know, there are zero Adobe sponsored articles or tutorials about using web services in anything but the most basic and mundane ways. As both of us have said, web services are the mechanism that will allow the widest adoption and impact of Flex (I also work in an environment where money is not the deciding factor), yet they have seemingly ignored the topic in their communications to developers, in favor FDS at every turn. Like FDS, web services are a very complex topic, but we have virtually no information on the finer points of their implementation. How does WSDL structure affect Flex's serialization of objects (my current issue)? What differences are there in Flex's treatment of Doc/Literal vs RPC/Encoded web services? Those kinds of things. Without Jesse's sample app on how to use web services with Flex 2 + Cairngorm 2 we'd really be screwed. All I am saying is that the focus on FDS seems unrealistic and counter-productive to the overarching goal of massive Flex adoption. I would venture to guess that the overwhelming majority of organizations (90%+) will not deploy FDS. Whether it be due to financial, platform or other infrastructure reasons, it simply doesn't fit into most stacks. That being said, you would think they could give some more detailed info on how to implement the pieces of the framework that the rest of us are going to use. Like I said, I think Flex is great. Really great. I just don't want to see them blow the adoption challenge. Again. Ben PS - I am using Doc/literal web services --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Franck de Bruijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben, Let's try not to be too pessimistic, although you might be right that Adobe's focus is more on the FDS part than the webservices part. It must be a hell of a complicated module and indeed, more money to be gained. I have quite some experience now with webservices, and they are extremely difficult to work with. And I don't believe that the first release of a product can be error free. So far, I am quite impressed with the support of Flex for webservices, but there will be bugs. It's up to us to signal them. I agree with you though that webservices is actually the only interesting way of communication with a back-end. For the near future, I don't expect to use any of the FDS features for the applications that I wish to build (and that is for large corporations that could afford the investment of an FDS module). Although webservices are a pain-in-the-neck, they are the only hope for a full heterogeneous world of clients and servers. How are you exposing your webservice? Doc/Literal or RPC/Encoded? Cheers, Franck _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP Hi Franck, I am pretty sure this is all related to types and the fact that Flex will serialize primitive types differently than complex ones. The C# code that creates the WS looks like this for the correctly functioning elements: [XmlArray(ContainersToRetrieve)] [XmlArrayItem(ContainerType, typeof(ContainerType))] ContainerType[] containersToRetrieve, and like this for the incorrect ones: [XmlArray(SelectedPlans)] [XmlArrayItem(PlanNumber)] string[] SelectedPlans I think the only way to fix this would be to have SelectedPlans be an array of complex objects rather than an array of strings. Unfortunately, I don't believe this is an option as there is other code that relies on this WS. Sigh. I really wish there was more focus on, documentation of and support for web services in Flex. The apparent concentration on FDS seems misguided to me as I don't see is as being a viable option for nearly as many organizations as web services are. I suppose I understand that FDS deployments are where the real money would be for Adobe, but it rings of the unrealistic and arguably unsuccessful model upon which Flex 1 and 1.5 were based on. Ben --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com, Franck de Bruijn franck.de.bruijn@ wrote: Hi Ben, I'm not sure if I'm following you, but I'll try :). I don't have answers, just questions. Let me put them to you: * Could it maybe be the type=s:string part? Is 's' pointing to the right xsd namespace? * I'm curious what is exactly making the 'ContainerType' element in your SOAP-message. Is it the name attribute or the type attribute? If it is the type attribute, then for sure in the PlanNumber element it'll not work ... * Could the nesting be a problem? What I see
[flexcoders] ComboBox doesn't update display unless 'activated' first
Hello, I have a ComboBox that is bound to an ArrayCollection. The problem is that if I programmatically remove the item that is currently being displayed in the CB from the source ArrayCollection, the CB doesn't update its display. It removes the item from the list so that its not there if I open it, but it displays the old value until then. However, if I click the CB to 'activate' it before removing the item, it will properly refresh its display and change the current item as soon as the underlying data changes. I have tried all kinds of things to do this programmatically with no luck. I've tried calling invalidateDisplay(), invalidateProperties() and a few others on the CB after updating the AC. I know this has to be something simple. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance, Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: ComboBox doesn't update display unless 'activated' first
SOLVED: This is weird, but I've got it working.
// shortcut var
var arr:ArrayCollection = ModelLocator.getInstance().arr_selectedPlans;
// if ComboBox is selected, add its label to the AC
// if not selected, remove its label from AC
if(evt.cb.selected)
{
// prevent dupes
if(!arr.contains(evt.cb.label))
{
arr.addItem(evt.cb.label);
}
}
else
{
arr.removeItemAt(arr.getItemIndex(evt.cb.label));
}
// WITHOUT THIS LINE, COMBOBOX WILL NOT UPDATE ITS DISPLAY
ModelLocator.getInstance().arr_selectedPlans.source = arr.toArray();
Should I really have to do this? I thought ArrayCollection was
supposed to have all these magical capabilities... :)
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I have a ComboBox that is bound to an ArrayCollection. The
problem is that if I programmatically remove the item that is
currently being displayed in the CB from the source ArrayCollection,
the CB doesn't update its display. It removes the item from the list
so that its not there if I open it, but it displays the old value
until then. However, if I click the CB to 'activate' it before
removing the item, it will properly refresh its display and change the
current item as soon as the underlying data changes.
I have tried all kinds of things to do this programmatically with no
luck. I've tried calling invalidateDisplay(), invalidateProperties()
and a few others on the CB after updating the AC.
I know this has to be something simple. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
In one part of my app, I am creating my Operation.arguments object
like this:
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
which, as expected, results in a SOAP call like this:
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
In a different spot, I am constructing a call in the same manner:
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
but that produces the following output, seemingly ignoring the
SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
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[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
I meant to hit preview... here is the rest of my post.
The pieces of the WSDL that correspond are:
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=ContainerType
type=tns:ContainerType/ (works correctly)
and
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=PlanNumber
nillable=true type=s:string/ (array is disregarded)
Is nillable=true causing a problem here? What changes need to be
made to make Flex treat arrays just like objects, like it does in the
first operation?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In one part of my app, I am creating my Operation.arguments object
like this:
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
which, as expected, results in a SOAP call like this:
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
In a different spot, I am constructing a call in the same manner:
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
but that produces the following output, seemingly ignoring the
SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
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[flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects conversion of AS objects to SOAP
Hi Franck,
I am pretty sure this is all related to types and the fact that Flex
will serialize primitive types differently than complex ones. The C#
code that creates the WS looks like this for the correctly functioning
elements:
[XmlArray(ContainersToRetrieve)]
[XmlArrayItem(ContainerType, typeof(ContainerType))]
ContainerType[] containersToRetrieve,
and like this for the incorrect ones:
[XmlArray(SelectedPlans)]
[XmlArrayItem(PlanNumber)]
string[] SelectedPlans
I think the only way to fix this would be to have SelectedPlans be an
array of complex objects rather than an array of strings.
Unfortunately, I don't believe this is an option as there is other
code that relies on this WS.
Sigh. I really wish there was more focus on, documentation of and
support for web services in Flex. The apparent concentration on FDS
seems misguided to me as I don't see is as being a viable option for
nearly as many organizations as web services are. I suppose I
understand that FDS deployments are where the real money would be for
Adobe, but it rings of the unrealistic and arguably unsuccessful model
upon which Flex 1 and 1.5 were based on.
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Franck de Bruijn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ben,
I'm not sure if I'm following you, but I'll try :).
I don't have answers, just questions. Let me put them to you:
* Could it maybe be the type=s:string part? Is 's' pointing to the
right xsd namespace?
* I'm curious what is exactly making the 'ContainerType' element in
your SOAP-message. Is it the name attribute or the type attribute?
If it is
the type attribute, then for sure in the PlanNumber element it'll
not work
...
* Could the nesting be a problem? What I see from your code example,
is that the PlanNumber elements are one level deeper than the
ContainerType
elements. Maybe it's an idea to test a webservice operation that takes
straight PlanNumber elements?
Good luck!
Franck
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:29 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Clarification needed on how WSDL affects
conversion of AS objects to SOAP
I meant to hit preview... here is the rest of my post.
The pieces of the WSDL that correspond are:
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=ContainerType
type=tns:ContainerType/ (works correctly)
and
s:element minOccurs=0 maxOccurs=unbounded name=PlanNumber
nillable=true type=s:string/ (array is disregarded)
Is nillable=true causing a problem here? What changes need to be
made to make Flex treat arrays just like objects, like it does in the
first operation?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
In one part of my app, I am creating my Operation.arguments object
like this:
args.ContainersToRetrieve = new Array();
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(Client);
args.ContainersToRetrieve.push(IndustryTrends);
which, as expected, results in a SOAP call like this:
ContainersToRetrieve
ContainerTypeClient/ContainerType
ContainerTypeIndustryTrends/ContainerType
In a different spot, I am constructing a call in the same manner:
args.RPRSelections = new Object();
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i model.arr_selectedPlans.length; i++)
{
args.RPRSelections.SelectedPlans.push(model.arr_selectedPlans[i]);
}
but that produces the following output, seemingly ignoring the
SelectedPlans array that was created.
RPRSelections
item78167/item
item78173/item
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[flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2 - Operation.arguments not clearing after call
I did, actually. Turned out my WSDLs were being loaded multiple times
and that was the problem.
HTH,
Ben
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hey ben,
did you get a solution here, I am running into the same problem.
Thanks.
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ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Hello all, this post is a bit long but I have tried to organize it
to
accomodate easy reading. I have modified my ServiceLocator so that
my
services are defined in AS, and am calling loadWSDL() from the
constructor of my delegates. The problem is that if I call an
operation more than once in my app, the arguments property never
seems
to get cleared, it just ends up with multiple copies of the the
current set of arguments in it. These are some snippets of my code:
bServices.mxml (inside a Script tag obviously)/b
// *** CLIENT MEASURES WEB SERVICE ***
cmws = new mx.rpc.soap.WebService();
cmws.useProxy = cmws.makeObjectsBindable = false;
bClientMeasuresDelegate.as/b
public function ClientMeasuresDelegate(callingCommand:IResponder)
{
responder = callingCommand;
service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as
WebService;
service.loadWSDL(ModelLocator.getInstance()[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ ?WSDL);
}
public function loadClientMeasures():void
{
var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as
Operation;
op.resultFormat = e4x;
op.arguments.groupingRequests = new Object();
op.arguments.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool;
...
}
bLoadClientMeasuresCommand.as/b
public function execute(event:CairngormEvent):void
{
var delegate:ClientMeasuresDelegate = new
ClientMeasuresDelegate(this);
delegate.loadClientMeasures();
}
The second time I call loadClientMeasures(), there are 2
groupingRequests objects on the arguments property, the third time
there are 3, etc, but the contents of each are identical (even
though
other arguments that are not shown here change between calls).
Shouldn't these be getting cleared since I am
creating a new instance of ClientMeasuresDelegate each time? Any
help
is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create repeated children?
Hello, I am sending arguments to my SOAP method, but can't figure out how to do repeated children in AS. For example, part of my call looks like this in XML: SelectedPlans PlanNumber12345/PlanNumber PlanNumber56789/PlanNumber /SelectedPlans I cannot figure out how to create this structure in AS. It seems that I have to use an Object (args.SelectedPlans = new Object();) in order for the name to be preserved during the conversion to XML, but objects obviously can't have 2 properties with the same name. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: ArrayUtil.toArray trouble (works in beta 3 not in release)
Hard to say without seeing your code but it may be due to 'makeObjectsBindable' defaulting to true in the final release. It was false in B3. Try setting makeObjectsBindable=false on your HTTPService component. HTH, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Flapflap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I use to have some httpservice xml result binding to an array using ArrayUtil.toArray method. They used has a dataprovider for a combobox. In beta 3 all is ok Now my combobox only show one ligne of [Object object] seperate with comas. I d'ont see anything one change on this method here : http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2006/06/flex_2_changes.cfm So is there an explaination ? -- Flapflap[at]sans-facon.net -- DevBlog : http://www.kilooctet.net -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create repeated children?
Hi Franck,
Thanks for the response. I am still having the same problem though,
which is that I end up with a generic 'item' tag or property being
created somewhere along the way. I am beginning to think that this
structure cannot be created in AS as it seems like I would need an
object with 2 properties named PlanNumber.
I tried using an object with a PlanNumber property of type Array, and
then stuffing the values into that, but that turns into
SelectedPlans xmlns=
item xmlns=78167/item
item xmlns=78173/item
/SelectedPlans
Is there a way to create a default property of an object or something?
Does valueOf() still exist?
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Franck de Bruijn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ben,
I do the following to achieve this.
Let's say I have a Customer who can have multiple Address objects.
Compare
Customer with your SelectedPlans and Address with PlanNumber.
My Customer AS class looks like this (boring parts omitted)
package model {
your imports ...
public class Customer
{
your other attributes
public var addresses:Array = new Array();
and the rest ...
The Address AS class is nothing more than this:
package model {
your imports ...
public class Address {
public var street:String;
public var houseNumber:int = 0;
... you get the idea
To store multiple Address objects into the Customer object, you just
fill
the array 'addresses' with Address objects.
You can now throw the entire Customer object as single argument into
your
webservice call. Flex will unmarshal the array correctly and
generate the
XML as you describe below.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Franck
_
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Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:11 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create
repeated children?
Hello, I am sending arguments to my SOAP method, but can't figure out
how to do repeated children in AS. For example, part of my call looks
like this in XML:
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber12345/PlanNumber
PlanNumber56789/PlanNumber
/SelectedPlans
I cannot figure out how to create this structure in AS. It seems that
I have to use an Object (args.SelectedPlans = new Object();) in order
for the name to be preserved during the conversion to XML, but objects
obviously can't have 2 properties with the same name.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create repeated children?
Would it be acceptable for you if your XML would look like this?
Unfortunately not :(
Does anyone know if there is an explanation anywhere on how the
compiler converts AS structures into SOAP format? Currently, it all
seems pretty mysterious. Anyone from Adobe have any insight?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Franck de Bruijn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ben,
I think I am starting to understand what you mean. I don't have the
environment up-and-running to really test ...
In my case, the XML will probably be something like:
customer
addresses
street1/street
...
/addresses
addresses
street2/street
...
/addresses
/customer
I'm sure that Flex is doing the right thing there, since I am basing
some of
my webservices on this kind of structures and all is working fine.
In your case you have a list of simple strings/numbers, while my
list is of
objects (having their own attributes) ...
Would it be acceptable for you if your XML would look like this?
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber
Value12345/Value
/PlanNumber
PlanNumber
Value56789/Value
/PlanNumber
/SelectedPlans
Then, you could make a PlanNumber action script object with a
property Value
in it. The SelectedPlans object would have an array having PlanNumber
objects ...
Cheers,
Franck
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:30 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you
create
repeated children?
Hi Franck,
Thanks for the response. I am still having the same problem though,
which is that I end up with a generic 'item' tag or property being
created somewhere along the way. I am beginning to think that this
structure cannot be created in AS as it seems like I would need an
object with 2 properties named PlanNumber.
I tried using an object with a PlanNumber property of type Array, and
then stuffing the values into that, but that turns into
SelectedPlans xmlns=
item xmlns=78167/item
item xmlns=78173/item
/SelectedPlans
Is there a way to create a default property of an object or something?
Does valueOf() still exist?
Ben
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
Franck de Bruijn
franck.de.bruijn@ wrote:
Hi Ben,
I do the following to achieve this.
Let's say I have a Customer who can have multiple Address objects.
Compare
Customer with your SelectedPlans and Address with PlanNumber.
My Customer AS class looks like this (boring parts omitted)
package model {
your imports ...
public class Customer
{
your other attributes
public var addresses:Array = new Array();
and the rest ...
The Address AS class is nothing more than this:
package model {
your imports ...
public class Address {
public var street:String;
public var houseNumber:int = 0;
... you get the idea
To store multiple Address objects into the Customer object, you just
fill
the array 'addresses' with Address objects.
You can now throw the entire Customer object as single argument into
your
webservice call. Flex will unmarshal the array correctly and
generate the
XML as you describe below.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Franck
_
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ups.com]
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create
repeated children?
Hello, I am sending arguments to my SOAP method, but can't figure out
how to do repeated children in AS. For example, part of my call looks
like this in XML:
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber12345/PlanNumber
PlanNumber56789/PlanNumber
/SelectedPlans
I cannot figure out how to create this structure in AS. It seems that
I have to use an Object (args.SelectedPlans = new Object();) in order
for the name to be preserved during the conversion to XML, but objects
obviously can't have 2 properties with the same name.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you create repeated children?
Well, the part that I dont understand is why I have to create an
Object for it to preserve the name and structure once it gets
converted. My original thought was to do something like this:
args.SelectedPlans = new Array();
args.SelectedPlans.push({PlanNumber: 12345});
args.SelectedPlans.push({PlanNumber: 56789});
but the SelectedPlans name is not preserved in that case. It ends up
as two anonymous objects on the level that the array was created on,
rather than being nested inside of it.
If there is truly no way to accomplish this type of structure it makes
creating WS calls, and especially your ServiceLocator, in AS pretty
pointless.
Adobe, please say it ain't so...
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Joost Nuijten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this is possible in any language (correct me if I'm
wrong).
Normally, you would create an array of objects (address object
mentioned in
Franck's example) or just an array with ID's.
Objects are always translated to collections like HashMap's and
arrays (or
ArrayCollections) to arrays.
All those collections are based on unique identifiers (in AS, Java
or .NET).
Of course, it is possible to create a custom collection that supports
redundant indentifiers, but internally you still have to use unique
ID's.
And the SOAP parser falls back to the default collections anyway.
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Van: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Namens
ben.clinkinbeard
Verzonden: maandag 7 augustus 2006 22:16
Aan: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Onderwerp: [flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you
create
repeated children?
Would it be acceptable for you if your XML would look like this?
Unfortunately not :(
Does anyone know if there is an explanation anywhere on how the
compiler converts AS structures into SOAP format? Currently, it all
seems pretty mysterious. Anyone from Adobe have any insight?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
Franck de Bruijn
franck.de.bruijn@ wrote:
Hi Ben,
I think I am starting to understand what you mean. I don't have the
environment up-and-running to really test ...
In my case, the XML will probably be something like:
customer
addresses
street1/street
...
/addresses
addresses
street2/street
...
/addresses
/customer
I'm sure that Flex is doing the right thing there, since I am basing
some of
my webservices on this kind of structures and all is working fine.
In your case you have a list of simple strings/numbers, while my
list is of
objects (having their own attributes) ...
Would it be acceptable for you if your XML would look like this?
SelectedPlans
PlanNumber
Value12345/Value
/PlanNumber
PlanNumber
Value56789/Value
/PlanNumber
/SelectedPlans
Then, you could make a PlanNumber action script object with a
property Value
in it. The SelectedPlans object would have an array having PlanNumber
objects ...
Cheers,
Franck
_
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ups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com]
On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Web Service arguments in AS - how do you
create
repeated children?
Hi Franck,
Thanks for the response. I am still having the same problem though,
which is that I end up with a generic 'item' tag or property being
created somewhere along the way. I am beginning to think that this
structure cannot be created in AS as it seems like I would need an
object with 2 properties named PlanNumber.
I tried using an object with a PlanNumber property of type Array, and
then stuffing the values into that, but that turns into
SelectedPlans xmlns=
item xmlns=78167/item
item xmlns=78173/item
/SelectedPlans
Is there a way to create a default property of an object or something?
Does valueOf() still exist?
Ben
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
Franck de Bruijn
franck.de.bruijn@ wrote:
Hi Ben,
I do the following to achieve this.
Let's say I have a Customer who can have multiple Address objects.
Compare
Customer with your SelectedPlans and Address with PlanNumber.
My Customer AS class looks like this (boring parts omitted)
package model {
your imports ...
public class Customer
{
your other attributes
public var addresses:Array = new Array();
and the rest ...
The Address AS class is nothing more than this:
package model {
your imports
[flexcoders] Re: Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question
Thanks Matt, The goal is definitely to have the editor understand the AS3 format, but in the discussion we had, the problem we saw was the lack of source for the top-level and flash.* classes. As far as I can tell, the only source provided with the SDK is the mx.* packages and classes. Am I missing something? I don't think the editor's developers (I am not one of them) have any desire to compete with Flex Builder, they simply want to provide AS3 coding support. As far as I know, they have no plans to integrate MXML support into the editor. Thanks again for your replies and I will look forward to any further clarifications you can provide. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see what you're saying now. I'm not sure that would be the end of the world (the lawyer canceled the meeting so I won't get to talk to him till next week) but a more traditional approach would be to get your editor to understand the AS3 source format. Since we ship the source in the SDK you could just parse that and get all the information you need. I think understanding the source format is going to be more flexible than manually entering information from livedocs. Of course the real thing to do is understand the bytecode format, but we haven't documented that as of yet. I have asked legal for help in getting an official answer to What can I use from the SDK if I wanted to write my own IDE?. It will be a few days before I can answer that, but I can tell you that the spirit of our EULA is not meant to prevent you from doing that. So we are not trying to throw up legal roadblocks to you building an editor. Which is not to say we're actively looking for competitors to start up when we're still trying to sell Flex Builder ;-) Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question I see what you mean, I guess I am just confused on why it would matter if someone went through the site and manually typed out all the info or if they were able to write a script that could do it automatically. The information is there, why would it matter who/what accesses it? Also just to clarify, the way I understand it the files would only need to be generated once; the screen scraping would not be something the app did as part of its operation. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Adam Dorritie adorritie@ wrote: On 8/3/06, ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote: Thanks for the reply, Matt. If this is not ok, what would be acceptable methods for accomplishing things like code completion in third party editors? Obviously, doing this requires knowledge of the structure of all AS3 classes and Livedocs seems like the best/only 'open' and free to the public source of this information. I really don't think any serious developer would consider an editor adequate without this functionality. I think that you're confusing 2 separate issues. The first is whether you can configure an editor to recognize (highlight, complete, whatever) ActionScript code using information obtained from publicly available documentation. The answer to this, as far as I know, is absolutely. The second issue, and the one which I believe that Matt has concerns about, is whether or not you can obtain the data you need to enable this feature by screen-scraping Adobe documentation. I can see potential issues with that. Manually enter the AS3 information into your editor and I would bet that you would be fine. Adam -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question
Thanks for the reply, Matt. If this is not ok, what would be acceptable methods for accomplishing things like code completion in third party editors? Obviously, doing this requires knowledge of the structure of all AS3 classes and Livedocs seems like the best/only 'open' and free to the public source of this information. I really don't think any serious developer would consider an editor adequate without this functionality. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a phone call with our lawyer tomorrow, I'll ask him. Offhand I don't think scraping the livedocs is kosher, but let me get back to you. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:34 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question Anyone? Is there a different place I should be asking this? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote: Dear Adobe, I was recently having a discussion about adding AS3 support (code completion, type checking, etc) to a 3rd party editor and a legal/copyright/license question came up that I am hoping to get a definitive answer to. The question is basically whether or not its ok to create files required by the editor by scraping the language ref pages available on LiveDocs. It seems to me that this would be fine since (a) the pages are freely available to the public and (b) the SDK was released for free to encourage adoption and things like code completion are more or less requirements for an editor to be considered a legitimate development environment. Is my thinking correct? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Firefox + Network debugging + you
ServiceCapture is definitely a great tool but seems to suffer if you're behind a proxy, as you have to tell your browsers to use ServiceCapture as their proxy. I've yet to find a configuration that allows me to use it with both IE and FF without having to adjust settings somewhere along the way. Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Clint Modien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second to none... supports AMF, integrates with firefox and IE and it's super low priced... http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/ On 8/3/06, james_dhap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I found an amazing tool last night that helped us track down an issue with a deployment of our app on our testing servers. We were getting strange HTTP faults that only occured on the testing server and it was impossible to use a http tunneling tool such as NetTools to track down the faults. One reason is that we dynamically change the server routing depending on where the app is deployed and I needed to verify that the calls where being formatted and routed correctly but do to time and out build process, putting in extra hooks to trap the calls and verify the output was only to be considered as a last resort. After doing some digging I found a Firefox extension called Tamper Data, that allows you to catch, hold, read, modify and even cancel post/get calls from the browser. Not only that, but it gives you timing info on the call back and even has built in charting. This tool allowed me to actually verify that I was sending the correct information and that the fault was acutally on the server and not the app. I highly recommend it because it is super easy to use, requires no port juggling (which can break the Flash sandbox on servers) and works on remote servers because its intergrated into the browser. check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/966/ - 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question
Anyone? Is there a different place I should be asking this? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Adobe, I was recently having a discussion about adding AS3 support (code completion, type checking, etc) to a 3rd party editor and a legal/copyright/license question came up that I am hoping to get a definitive answer to. The question is basically whether or not its ok to create files required by the editor by scraping the language ref pages available on LiveDocs. It seems to me that this would be fine since (a) the pages are freely available to the public and (b) the SDK was released for free to encourage adoption and things like code completion are more or less requirements for an editor to be considered a legitimate development environment. Is my thinking correct? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid ItemRenderer
From what I was told in a previous thread, non-visible rows are not rendered. Basically, it renders however many rows are visible, and then when you scroll down for instance, it moves them all up one and moves the top row to the bottom and rerenders its content. Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Adding AS3 support to 3rd party editors - legal question
Dear Adobe, I was recently having a discussion about adding AS3 support (code completion, type checking, etc) to a 3rd party editor and a legal/copyright/license question came up that I am hoping to get a definitive answer to. The question is basically whether or not its ok to create files required by the editor by scraping the language ref pages available on LiveDocs. It seems to me that this would be fine since (a) the pages are freely available to the public and (b) the SDK was released for free to encourage adoption and things like code completion are more or less requirements for an editor to be considered a legitimate development environment. Is my thinking correct? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Educational version
Looks like only North America, France, Germany and UK right now. http://www.adobe.com/buy/ Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, quetwo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Oriol Gual oriol.gual@ wrote: Hi, I've been looking at the Adobe site, and I can't find a place to buy the educational version of FB2. I've also called the support center here at Spain, and they've told me that there's no educational version of Flex. Can anyone tell me if there's actually a educational version of FB2, and how or where can I buy it? Thanks! Oriol. The educational version just showed up on Adobe's education store in the past week, for a cost of $99.00. Most distributors, such as Ingram Micro have not received them yet. However, I believe that it is going to be offered for North America only for the time being. http://store.adobe.com/store/products/department.jhtml? id=deptEducationNR=0keyword=flex_builder_charting -Nick Kwiatkowski -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Are the contents of a WSDL document accessible?
Hey guys, thanks for the quick replies. I actually found what I was looking for in the docs a few minutes after posting (of course). What I was looking for was how to access the contents of the wsdl once it has been loaded into your app. Turns out you can, by capturing the mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent that is fired when the wsdl has finished loading. LoadEvent has a 'wsdl' property that returns a WSDL object (which I so far cannot find in the docs) and a 'document' property which returns an old school XMLDocument object. The reason I was asking is because I am thinking about trying to build something like Web Service Studio (http://tinyurl.com/2t8gd) or Soap UI (http://www.soapui.org/) in Flex. I've only been investigating for about 15 minutes or so but my initial thoughts? This would be damn hard :) We'll see how motivated I am to tackle it in the light of day. Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Title pretty much sums it up. Is there any way to access and work with the actual XML contained in the WSDL document? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: what is beeing sent via HTTPSerice?
I strongly prefer http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/ Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, arnold_charming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using HTTPService class to send some form data to my server scripts. Is there any way how to find out what exactly (what variables and values) are beeing send via HTTPService? -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: feature or security hole on flash sandBox?
There are no restrictions when running the file on your local system. Access it through a web server and your calls will fail. HTH, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Xavi Beumala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today I've noticed that I can load images from diferent domains (which doesn't have a crossdomain file) without getting a security sandbox violation error. For example, when running the following application from my fileSystem I'm not receiving any error eventhough the domains don't have de crossdomain file (I also haven't trusted the file). mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=vertical mx:Image source=http://www.code4net.com/header/foto2.jpg; width=800 height=160/ mx:Image source= http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mntl/hlth/06q2/img_diet.jpg; width=800 height=160/ /mx:Application So is this a new feature on the player or is it a security hole? I've been reading the document at www.adobe.com/devnet/*flash*player/ articles/*flash*_player_8_*security*.pdf and the most accurate thing I've found refering to images is: A SWF file from a.com may read from the server at b.com (using the ActionScript XML.load() method, for example) if b.comhas a cross-domain policy file that permits access from a.com (or from all domains). So if the criteria for loading external images is the same as for .swf... Any ideas? Best X. -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: feature or security hole on flash sandBox?
Hmm, I've not read enough about the newer security models to be sure, I just assumed it was that way since earlier versions were. One thing I did notice though was that you said you're reading from the security whitepaper for FP8. You should be reading about FP9 since that is what Flex and AS3 target. HTH, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Xavi Beumala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're wrong. It's also working on web server. And from local system you've also restrictions. Just try an application running from the local file system and consuming remote data throgh HTTPService, it's going to fail. But it's not failing with mx:Image. X. On 7/27/06, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no restrictions when running the file on your local system. Access it through a web server and your calls will fail. HTH, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Xavi Beumala xavi@ wrote: Hi, Today I've noticed that I can load images from diferent domains (which doesn't have a crossdomain file) without getting a security sandbox violation error. For example, when running the following application from my fileSystem I'm not receiving any error eventhough the domains don't have de crossdomain file (I also haven't trusted the file). mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=vertical mx:Image source=http://www.code4net.com/header/foto2.jpg; width=800 height=160/ mx:Image source= http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mntl/hlth/06q2/img_diet.jpg; width=800 height=160/ /mx:Application So is this a new feature on the player or is it a security hole? I've been reading the document at www.adobe.com/devnet/*flash*player/ articles/*flash*_player_8_*security*.pdf and the most accurate thing I've found refering to images is: A SWF file from a.com may read from the server at b.com (using the ActionScript XML.load() method, for example) if b.comhas a cross-domain policy file that permits access from a.com (or from all domains). So if the criteria for loading external images is the same as for .swf... Any ideas? Best X. -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Forgive the dense noob here, but how is the type info lost? I thought
that by subclassing CairngormEvent you get basic checking and then you
can just do a cast or 'event as MyCutomEvent' inside the execute
method. I guess I am just not clear on what the issue is and where the
problem lies. Can someone edumacate me?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can technically upcast
'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I know Steven
didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can compare
to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String = doSomething;
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp);
break;
}
}
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
The only typesafe solution i can think of, is to abandon
CairngormEvents and replace them by methods of the FrontController.
Most of the apps i've seen so far don't make use of the runtime
changeability anyways. What do we loose if we do it like that?
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm with you. I've been determing type of event based on the
event.type in the Command's execute method to get my strong-typing back.
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Its really a pity, that we loose all the nice type information
while going all the way through Cairngorm.
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ah, righto. thanks d00ds. I had this hacked up too much...no
worky good. If only I can get that damn RO to calm down now and do
what its told! but that's another thread.
DK
On 7/27/06, thunderstumpgesatwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The delegate function thinks you just have a CairngormEvent. I
think
you just need to check to make sure the event you received is your
custom event type and then cast it.
so:
if (eventHere is LoadScorecardEvent)
{
del.getScorecard( LoadScorecardEvent(eventHere).scorecardId );
}
else
{
// do nothing, or raise error, or log warning, or whatever.
}
best of luck,
Thunder
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Knudsen
douglasknudsen@ wrote:
can someone point me to a example of how to pass data in a
cairngorm
type
event? I'm trying the below with
package com.mycompany.events
{
import com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
public class LoadScorecardEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static var EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD: String =
'LoadScorecardEvent';
public var scorecardId:Number;
/**
* The constructor,
*/
public function LoadScorecardEvent( )
{
super( EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD );
}
}
}
then in a view dispatching like so
var devent : LoadScorecardEvent = new LoadScorecardEvent( );
devent.scorecardId = 5;
CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(
devent );
and in the command I have
public function execute( eventHere : CairngormEvent ) : void
{
var del : MainDelegate = new MainDelegate( this );
del.getScorecard( eventHere.scorecardId );
}
But this bombs out with a error about scorecardId not in
eventHere.
DK
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FAQ:
[flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Doesn't execute() accept a CairngromEvent for the sake of polymorphism
though? How could you do things any differently and still preserve
that aspect? Additionally, if you want your Commands to support
multiple types of events isn't it essential that execute() accept a
superclass or common interface? Are you just wishing AS supported
method overloading or is there something I am still not getting?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My initial frustration was I'd create this event class, which allowed
strong-typing, like so:
package
{
import com.adobe.control.CairngormEvent;
public class MyEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static const ACTION:String = action;
public var someID:int;
public function MyEvent(p_type:String, p_someID:int)
{
super(p_type);
someID = p_someID;
}
}
}
So, my event now has context. If I need to have my Command get a
person
record from the DB for example, this event will contain the payload it
needs; the person ID I'm looking for. However, by the time it gets
to the
Command, it's a base class, the CairngormEvent.
package
{
public class MyCommand implements AllTheInterfacesEct
{
public function execute ( event:CairngormEvent )
{
trace(event.someID); // faith based programming
}
}
}
Now, for some, their Events are directly linked to Commands, like so:
LoginEvent will fire LoginCommand which calls LoginDelegate
GetPersonEvent will fire GetPersonCommand which calls GetPersonDelegate
At a simple level, yes, this'll do. So, you can acutally make some
assumptions in the above; if you play by the default Cairngorm
rules, you
KNOW by convention that your MyCommand class will get a MyEvent, so you
could risk up-casting, like so:
someDelegateMethod ( MyEvent ( event ) . someID );
...that's faith, though. You'll get an exception if for some reason
that's
not the real event. It'd be better if the compiler caught that vs. the
runtime, before it's a problem. For me, I use multiple events inside
Commands, so it's exacerbated. The Controller keeps all of this
under tabs,
but again, it'd be nice if MyCommand for example GOT MyEvent in the
execute.
I supposed you could make that assumption; not sure if it'd compile.
Anyway, convention over strict-typing is ok since a lot of
conventions teams
follow can do the above, for example, and assume you'll get what you
need.
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Forgive the dense noob here, but how is the type info lost? I thought
that by subclassing CairngormEvent you get basic checking and then you
can just do a cast or 'event as MyCutomEvent' inside the execute
method. I guess I am just not clear on what the issue is and where the
problem lies. Can someone edumacate me?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can technically upcast
'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I know Steven
didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can compare
to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String = doSomething;
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp);
break;
}
}
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
The only typesafe solution i can think of, is to abandon
CairngormEvents and replace them by methods of the FrontController.
Most of the apps i've seen so far don't make use of the runtime
changeability anyways. What do we loose if we do it like that?
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
I'm with you. I've been determing type of event based on the
event.type in the Command's execute method to get my strong-typing back.
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Its really a pity, that we loose all the nice type information
while going all the way through Cairngorm.
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, Douglas Knudsen douglasknudsen@ wrote:
ah, righto. thanks d00ds. I had this hacked up too much...no
worky good. If only I can get that damn RO to calm down now and do
what
[flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Heh, sorry dood, didn't mean to challenge you while in an
exhaustion-induced haze. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some
basic concept quietly sailing above my head. :)
Get some sleep.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5 coffee's and 3 RedBull's later, I'm running on fumes, so don't
really have
intelligent answers for you, just guesses.
Don't know, I guess you're right.
Find some way to either A) follow the convention a Command will get the
event class of a similiar name, and thus feel safe in casting it or
B ) find
some way to strongly type that parameter. You can't up-cast function
arguments, though, so it's kind of stuck as CairngormEvent... I think.
For the multiple events, yes, you are correct. I've definately
taken for
granted all my other stuff has worked for that very fact. Oops.
Actually, at this point, no clue... wtf were you talking about anyway,
Bokel?
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Doesn't execute() accept a CairngromEvent for the sake of polymorphism
though? How could you do things any differently and still preserve
that aspect? Additionally, if you want your Commands to support
multiple types of events isn't it essential that execute() accept a
superclass or common interface? Are you just wishing AS supported
method overloading or is there something I am still not getting?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
My initial frustration was I'd create this event class, which allowed
strong-typing, like so:
package
{
import com.adobe.control.CairngormEvent;
public class MyEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static const ACTION:String = action;
public var someID:int;
public function MyEvent(p_type:String, p_someID:int)
{
super(p_type);
someID = p_someID;
}
}
}
So, my event now has context. If I need to have my Command get a
person
record from the DB for example, this event will contain the payload it
needs; the person ID I'm looking for. However, by the time it gets
to the
Command, it's a base class, the CairngormEvent.
package
{
public class MyCommand implements AllTheInterfacesEct
{
public function execute ( event:CairngormEvent )
{
trace(event.someID); // faith based programming
}
}
}
Now, for some, their Events are directly linked to Commands, like so:
LoginEvent will fire LoginCommand which calls LoginDelegate
GetPersonEvent will fire GetPersonCommand which calls
GetPersonDelegate
At a simple level, yes, this'll do. So, you can acutally make some
assumptions in the above; if you play by the default Cairngorm
rules, you
KNOW by convention that your MyCommand class will get a MyEvent,
so you
could risk up-casting, like so:
someDelegateMethod ( MyEvent ( event ) . someID );
...that's faith, though. You'll get an exception if for some reason
that's
not the real event. It'd be better if the compiler caught that
vs. the
runtime, before it's a problem. For me, I use multiple events inside
Commands, so it's exacerbated. The Controller keeps all of this
under tabs,
but again, it'd be nice if MyCommand for example GOT MyEvent in the
execute.
I supposed you could make that assumption; not sure if it'd compile.
Anyway, convention over strict-typing is ok since a lot of
conventions teams
follow can do the above, for example, and assume you'll get what you
need.
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Forgive the dense noob here, but how is the type info lost? I thought
that by subclassing CairngormEvent you get basic checking and then you
can just do a cast or 'event as MyCutomEvent' inside the execute
method. I guess I am just not clear on what the issue is and where the
problem lies. Can someone edumacate me?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can technically upcast
'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I know Steven
didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can compare
to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String = doSomething;
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp
[flexcoders] Why does Flex insert ns0: and ns1: namespace prefixes?
I keep seeing these prefixes that are completely unnecessary, and I don't know why or how they're getting inserted. My calls are formatted like this: dmws = new WebService(); dmws.useProxy = dmws.makeObjectsBindable = false; dmws.loadWSDL(myWsdlUrl); var op:Operation = dmws.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; op.arguments.groupingRequests = new Object(); op.arguments.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRToolStaticData; Pretty simple and straightforward, but when I view the request xml that is sent it looks like this: GetDataByGrouping xmlns=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:groupingRequests xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:DataGroupingRequest ns0:GroupNameRPRToolStaticData/ns0:GroupName /ns0:DataGroupingRequest /ns0:groupingRequests /GetDataByGrouping Why is it redfining the namespace that is already on the GetDataByGrouping node and muddying up the xml with unnecessary prefixes? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WktRrD/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Why does Flex insert ns0: and ns1: namespace prefixes?
Even stranger, it seems to add it to all of the direct child nodes of the actual request node. Another example: PseSearch xmlns=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch; ns0:clientNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch/ ns0:planNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch;78167/ns0:planNm ns0:RelationshipMgrNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch/ ns0:maxResults xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch;100/ns0:maxResults /PseSearch Am I defining something incorrectly? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep seeing these prefixes that are completely unnecessary, and I don't know why or how they're getting inserted. My calls are formatted like this: dmws = new WebService(); dmws.useProxy = dmws.makeObjectsBindable = false; dmws.loadWSDL(myWsdlUrl); var op:Operation = dmws.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; op.arguments.groupingRequests = new Object(); op.arguments.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRToolStaticData; Pretty simple and straightforward, but when I view the request xml that is sent it looks like this: GetDataByGrouping xmlns=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:groupingRequests xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:DataGroupingRequest ns0:GroupNameRPRToolStaticData/ns0:GroupName /ns0:DataGroupingRequest /ns0:groupingRequests /GetDataByGrouping Why is it redfining the namespace that is already on the GetDataByGrouping node and muddying up the xml with unnecessary prefixes? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Tools for listing objects
Couldn't you just set a breakpoint and use the debugger in FB? Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jeff tapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any one know of a tool like OptimizeIt! for java, or like List Objects in Flash Studio for finding all objects currently in existance? We are looking to verify that we have truely cleaned up objects no longer in use, and released them to the GC, but without a tool like this, we cant tell what exists and what doesnt. Does anyone have any tips? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/7EuRwD/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Why does Flex insert ns0: and ns1: namespace prefixes?
Anyone? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even stranger, it seems to add it to all of the direct child nodes of the actual request node. Another example: PseSearch xmlns=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch; ns0:clientNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch/ ns0:planNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch;78167/ns0:planNm ns0:RelationshipMgrNm xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch/ ns0:maxResults xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/PseSearch;100/ns0:maxResults /PseSearch Am I defining something incorrectly? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote: I keep seeing these prefixes that are completely unnecessary, and I don't know why or how they're getting inserted. My calls are formatted like this: dmws = new WebService(); dmws.useProxy = dmws.makeObjectsBindable = false; dmws.loadWSDL(myWsdlUrl); var op:Operation = dmws.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as Operation; op.resultFormat = e4x; op.arguments.groupingRequests = new Object(); op.arguments.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRToolStaticData; Pretty simple and straightforward, but when I view the request xml that is sent it looks like this: GetDataByGrouping xmlns=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:groupingRequests xmlns:ns0=http://site.com/BackOffice/ClientMeasures; ns0:DataGroupingRequest ns0:GroupNameRPRToolStaticData/ns0:GroupName /ns0:DataGroupingRequest /ns0:groupingRequests /GetDataByGrouping Why is it redfining the namespace that is already on the GetDataByGrouping node and muddying up the xml with unnecessary prefixes? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: What Other Eclipse Plugs Do You Use?
My favorite added functionality so far is a side effect of having FDT installed. Just posted about it here: http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/smart-home-functionality-in-flex-builder-2/ Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Mulvihill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm installing plugs into the IDE, as a corollary to the post I just sent, what other Eclipse plugs are you using and recommend? TIA, Kevin Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TktRrD/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Best practices for organizing base code library and project specific code
Just wondering how people out there approach this. Obviously, I have my project neautral, reusable code stored in a structure like com.mydomain.utils, etc. This is off in a general location. Currently, I have a structure like com.mydomain.projects.MyCurrentProject inside the actual Flex project folder, and I link the reusable code's folder into the project. Using the com.mydomain.etc structure in my project folders means I could later integrate all of the code into one location without editing the packages, so I am wondering if I should just do that to begin with. If I kept everything in a central place I could just link my library to each project but I would not have any code held with the actual Flex files. I think I prefer my current approach but would like to get some feedback from others and see what other methods people are using. Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/7EuRwD/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Auto-complete list for ComboBox different in AS and MXML - why?
Hello, I have a ComboBox defined in MXML that when I go to add an attribute to, the auto-complete list includes selectedIndex, but not selectedItem or selectedLabel. When I address the cb in AS, I get all 3 options as expected. Sup wit dat? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
OK, I've made a modified version more suitable for MXML and would love
to get feedback from everyone. Ideally I would be able to bind a field
or label directly to the formatted output and would not require a
click to 'reset' the field that is bound to the formatted value. How
would I accomplish that? (I tried but was unsuccessful.) Here is the
modified class:
public class QuickDateFormatter extends DateFormatter
{
public var str_dateString:String;
public var str_dateFormat:String;
[Bindable] public var str_formattedDate:String;
public function getFormattedDate():void
{
var f:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
f.formatString = str_dateFormat;
str_formattedDate =
f.format(DateFormatter.parseDateString(str_dateString));
}
}
and a sample usage:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute xmlns:local=*
local:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf str_dateString={d.text}
str_dateFormat={f.text} /
mx:Label text={qdf.str_formattedDate} x=72 y=168/
mx:TextInput x=72 y=117 width=133 id=d/
mx:TextInput x=222 y=117 width=91 id=f/
mx:Label x=72 y=91 text=Date/
mx:Label x=222 y=91 text=Format/
mx:Button x=341 y=117 label=Go click=qdf.getFormattedDate();/
/mx:Application
Thanks,
Ben
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--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, gotgoose09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All you have to do is add public properties like this:
[Bindable]
public var str_dateFormat:String;
[Bindable]
public var str_dateString:String;
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Yea, what I am looking for is some help on what changes would need to
be made to the class to allow it to be used in a format similar to
this:
utils:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf str_dateString={model.someDate}
str_dateFormat=MM/DD/YY /
mx:Label text={qdf} /
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
OK, I've got it working how I wanted. Would love to hear feedback on
my structure as well as whether or not you find this useful.
Usage:
local:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf date={fieldOne.text}
dateFormat={fieldTwo.text} /
mx:Label text={qdf.output}/
Source class:
package
{
import mx.formatters.DateFormatter;
public class QuickDateFormatter extends DateFormatter
{
private var _str_dateString:String;
private var _str_dateFormat:String;
[Bindable] public var output:String;
public function get date():String
{
return _str_dateString;
}
public function set date(a_str:String):void
{
_str_dateString = a_str;
reformat();
}
public function get dateFormat():String
{
return _str_dateFormat;
}
public function set dateFormat(a_str:String):void
{
_str_dateFormat = a_str;
reformat();
}
private function reformat():void
{
var f:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
f.formatString = _str_dateFormat;
output =
f.format(DateFormatter.parseDateString(_str_dateString));
}
}
}
Let me know what you think!
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[flexcoders] Re: Installation of Cairngorm2 - instructions are WRONG!
Not sure if you're just wanting to install the example or make the files available to other projects, but in case the latter is what you're after, here goes. Create your project, right click on it in the navigation pane and go to properties. Go to the library path tab and click 'add swc'. Navigate to the folder you downloaded Cairngorm into and select cairngorm.swc. You will then have access to the Cairngorm classes. They'll not be visible, but you can import and use them by addressing the com.adobe.cairngorm.whatever package. HTH, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Wally Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have repeatedly attempted to install the Cairngorm2 files on my system and have failed each time. The instructions in the README.TXT file are as follow. These instructions are out of date and do not follow the installation requirements of the final Flex production release. Does ANYONE have explicit instructions for installing the Cairngorm2 system on the final released Flex system? Installation Using FlexBuilder 2 1) Extract the zip file into a local directory on your machine - eg, c:\dev\cairngorm2\. 2) Launch Flex Builder 2 and choose New Project from the File menu. Create a new Flex project. 3) In answer to Will this project be using Enterprise Services, choose No. 4) In the following screen in the new project wizard, give the project name CairngormLogin, set the Project Location to c:\dev\cairngorm2\ and set the Main application file to CairngormLogin.mxml 5) Press the Finish button You should now have a new Flex project, with CairngormLogin.mxml opened and ready to run. Press the run button on the FlexBuilder toolbar, and the application should compile and launch into your browser. The CairngormLogin application is by no means intended to be a showcase for Cairngorm; it is a barebones application that allows you to prove your Cairngorm installation is working, and demonstrates a little of the usage of the API. -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
Thanks gotgoose, I actually realized a lot of that a while after my
post and hadn't gotten a chance to update this thread. Thanks for
pointing me to that section in the help though, there is some good
info there. Upon further review, you can basically do what I was
attempting with the built-in DateFormatter.
mx:DateFormatter id=df formatString=MM-DD- /
mx:TextInput id=t /
mx:Label id=out text={df.format(t.text)}/
My initial purpose was to create a shorter way of formatting dates in
AS, which I accomplished and can use like this:
QuickDateFormatter.format(myUnformattedString, MM/DD/);
Applying it to MXML just sounded like a good learning exercise. I
guess a little more research would've helped. :) Thanks for your help.
Ben
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--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, gotgoose09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all, I would read Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components
Creating Nonvisual Flex Components Creating Custom Formatters
Creating a custom formatter in the documentation.
The documentation for DateFormatter says that it has a formatString
variable, so you can get rid of str_dateFormat and just use formatString
on your tag. Also, the correct function to override in your custom
formatter is format() so you can replace getFormattedDate() with:
override public function format(value:Object):String
{
return super.format(value);
}
Then, you can add this public getter function to bind your
str_formattedDate.
public function get formattedDate():String
{
return format(str_dateString);
}
Then, change {qdf.str_formattedDate} to {qdf.formattedDate}. I believe
this should work, report back if you encounter any problems.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
OK, I've made a modified version more suitable for MXML and would love
to get feedback from everyone. Ideally I would be able to bind a field
or label directly to the formatted output and would not require a
click to 'reset' the field that is bound to the formatted value. How
would I accomplish that? (I tried but was unsuccessful.) Here is the
modified class:
public class QuickDateFormatter extends DateFormatter
{
public var str_dateString:String;
public var str_dateFormat:String;
[Bindable] public var str_formattedDate:String;
public function getFormattedDate():void
{
var f:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
f.formatString = str_dateFormat;
str_formattedDate =
f.format(DateFormatter.parseDateString(str_dateString));
}
}
and a sample usage:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute xmlns:local=*
local:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf str_dateString={d.text}
str_dateFormat={f.text} /
mx:Label text={qdf.str_formattedDate} x=72 y=168/
mx:TextInput x=72 y=117 width=133 id=d/
mx:TextInput x=222 y=117 width=91 id=f/
mx:Label x=72 y=91 text=Date/
mx:Label x=222 y=91 text=Format/
mx:Button x=341 y=117 label=Go
click=qdf.getFormattedDate();/
/mx:Application
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, gotgoose09 thegoosmans@ wrote:
All you have to do is add public properties like this:
[Bindable]
public var str_dateFormat:String;
[Bindable]
public var str_dateString:String;
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Yea, what I am looking for is some help on what changes would need
to
be made to the class to allow it to be used in a format similar to
this:
utils:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf
str_dateString={model.someDate}
str_dateFormat=MM/DD/YY /
mx:Label text={qdf} /
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: performance issues
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comparing against the old value and if it hasn't changed not doing
anything, it may be that it's invalidating too often?
A couple of days ago I discovered that this 'event' fires every time
the row is scrolled into or out of view. So if you are scrolling
quickly, this code could be firing tens of times just over a half
second or whatever. Setting a flag is definitely a good idea. Here is
what my code ended up looking like (itemRenderer was just a checkbox
with a dynamic label):
private var str_label:String;
override public function set data(value:Object):void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
super.data = value;
if(super.data[q] != str_label)
{
cb_planNumber.label = str_label = super.data[q];
cb_planNumber.selected = false;
}
}
HTH,
Ben
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[flexcoders] QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
Hello all, I have created and documented a class that greatly simplifies the process of converting a date string to an alternately formatted date string. The current incarnation is described here: http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/quickdateformatter-efficient-date-formatting-in-as3/, but I am wondering how I would go about making a version that is able to be used in MXML. I know it would involve the creation of some public properties but beyond that I am pretty clueless. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ben Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
Sorry, it attached my comma to the link. Should be http://www.returnundefined.com/2006/07/quickdateformatter-efficient-date-formatting-in-as3/ Thanks, Ben Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: QuickDateFormatter - how can I make it MXML enabled?
Yea, what I am looking for is some help on what changes would need to
be made to the class to allow it to be used in a format similar to this:
utils:QuickDateFormatter id=qdf str_dateString={model.someDate}
str_dateFormat=MM/DD/YY /
mx:Label text={qdf} /
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder flakiness - Smart Home works!!!
Hi Sho and others, I have discovered an easy way to get 'smart home' behavior in Flex Builder: having FDT (http://fdt.powerflasher.com) installed. You don't have to purchase it (I almost forgot I had installed the trial on my work machine months ago), you just have to install and 'activate' it by opening an AS file with it. Do an 'Open with -' and then choose what should be the second item that says 'ActionScript Editor' (the icon is different than the default FB one). Close the file and thats it! Open any AS file as usual with double click or whatever and test it out. Pressing home should now take you to the first non-whitespace character, respecting whatever indentation is present. Hopefully others find this as useful as I do. Lack of smart home functionality is a huge nuissance in my workflow. Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sho Kuwamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue about not resolving errors upon saving a file is troubling. If you can isolate the bug any further, it would help us solve it. The smart home approach is not something we had time to implement for FB 2.0. Sorry! -Sho From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:55 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder flakiness FB seems to behave very unpredictably for me. On my machine at work it will not find or resolve any errors upon saving a file. To do either of those things I must actually build/launch the app. On my home machine, FB doesn't use the 'smart home' approach where pressing the Home key takes you to the first non-whitespace character. It takes you all the way home, disregarding any existing tabs. Can anyone tell me how to resolve these issues? Thanks, Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Loading configuration file on runtime
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.*;
public function execute():void
{
var XML_URL:String = ../config/config.xml;
var myXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML_URL);
appLoader = new URLLoader(myXMLURL);
appLoader.addEventListener(complete, configLoaded);
}
private function configLoaded(event:Event):void
{
appConfigData = new XML(appLoader.data);
}
HTH,
Ben
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I'm looking for a way to load a configuration file in flex that is in
the folder on runtime. It can be any type of text file I just want to
load it then declare a variable from the item that is loaded.A
simple question I thought but I still can't find the answer. Any help
is greatly appreciated. [:-/]
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[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Hey Tim, No worries, I didn't think you were being harsh, I just wanted to clarify what I was referring to. I am very new to Flex, so as long as it doesn't involve calling me names I am willing to listen to just about any advice. Actually, I could probably overlook namecalling if the info was good enough. :) I suppose I understand the event firing due to the redraw, it just seems like a 'dataChange' event should only fire when, you know, data changes. I will look into your article and custom events when I get some time, thanks for the tip. Jesse, going to those lengths seems like a bit of overkill when all the itemRenderer consists of is a Checkbox with a dynamic label. I guess for now I will stick with my 'dirty and hackish' flag var, until I have time to further investigate/implement something like what Tim showed. Thanks for everyone's help. Ben Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Cairngorm 2 - Operation.arguments not clearing after call
Hello all, this post is a bit long but I have tried to organize it to
accomodate easy reading. I have modified my ServiceLocator so that my
services are defined in AS, and am calling loadWSDL() from the
constructor of my delegates. The problem is that if I call an
operation more than once in my app, the arguments property never seems
to get cleared, it just ends up with multiple copies of the the
current set of arguments in it. These are some snippets of my code:
bServices.mxml (inside a Script tag obviously)/b
// *** CLIENT MEASURES WEB SERVICE ***
cmws = new mx.rpc.soap.WebService();
cmws.useProxy = cmws.makeObjectsBindable = false;
bClientMeasuresDelegate.as/b
public function ClientMeasuresDelegate(callingCommand:IResponder)
{
responder = callingCommand;
service = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getService(cmws) as
WebService;
service.loadWSDL(ModelLocator.getInstance()[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ ?WSDL);
}
public function loadClientMeasures():void
{
var op:Operation = service.getOperation(GetDataByGrouping) as
Operation;
op.resultFormat = e4x;
op.arguments.groupingRequests = new Object();
op.arguments.groupingRequests.GroupName = RPRTool;
...
}
bLoadClientMeasuresCommand.as/b
public function execute(event:CairngormEvent):void
{
var delegate:ClientMeasuresDelegate = new ClientMeasuresDelegate(this);
delegate.loadClientMeasures();
}
The second time I call loadClientMeasures(), there are 2
groupingRequests objects on the arguments property, the third time
there are 3, etc, but the contents of each are identical (even though
other arguments that are not shown here change between calls).
Shouldn't these be getting cleared since I am
creating a new instance of ClientMeasuresDelegate each time? Any help
is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Thanks to everyone for the replies. Unfortunately, this approach has a rather nasty side effect, which I can only assume is a bug. Also, isn't this the same as having an event handler for the dataChange event on the itemRenderer? The side effect is that if your DataGrid has a scrollbar and you scroll an item out of view, this event/method gets executed; in my case clearing the selection. Why the dataChange event (pretty sure that's what this is capturing) would be dispatched due to scrolling is beyond me, so my guess is that its a bug. Still looking for a solution, Ben -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder flakiness
OK, I am afraid to start messing around with disabling plugins and stuff :) I don't want to lose the functionality I've magically obtained! Instead, I have taken a screenshot of my plugins window so that others can try installing items from the list if they so desire. http://www.returnundefined.com/files/misc/eclipse_plugins.jpg The problem with not finding/resolving errors on save (it doesn't even try) is consistent across all projects, regardless of how they were created. I am not sure how to investigate this further but if you have suggestions I am certainly open to trying them. On a somewhat related note, why isn't there a 'Never' option for the 'Continue launch if project contains errors' setting? When it is set to prompt you, checking the 'remember my choice' checkbox only works if you choose yes. We really should be able to globally say 'never launch a project that contains errors'. Thanks, Ben Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
OK, putting a small flag into the function that checks to see if the
data is actually new seems to be a decent way around the firing when
scrolling, but it feels kinda dirty and hackish.
private var str_label:String;
override public function set data(value:Object):void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new
QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
super.data = value;
if(data[q] != str_label)
{
cb_planNumber.label = str_label =
data[q];
cb_planNumber.selected = false;
}
}
Can someone, ideally from Adobe, confirm or deny my thought that the
event being dispatched on scroll is a bug?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ben,
As Stacey suggests, put this function in your itemRenderer:
override public function set data(value:Object):void {
super.data = value;
cb_planNumber.selected = false;
}
Everytime the data changes in the itemRenderer, the function will
execute.
-TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
I'm sorry Stacey, I don't follow. Can you please explain further?
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Stacey Mulcahy stacey@
wrote:
Can you not overwrite the data property it sets using the
override and
setting the data of the super to the value and doing what you
want?
Override public function set data (value:object):void{
super.data=value;
cb_planNumber.selected=value.someBoolean// do stuff }
_
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Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside
DataGrid when
dataProvider is updated?
Thanks for the reply, Tim. Unfortunately, the selected state is
not
held in the data. The checkboxes should always begin unchecked,
but
the user can (obviously) check them. The checkboxes apparently
get
reused though, not all created every time, because
cb_planNumber.selected = false; does not work either.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:
Hey Ben,
In addition to setting the label, you have to set the selected
property.
var q:QName = new QName
(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
var r:QName = new QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE,
PlanNumberSelected);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
cb_planNumber.selected = data[r];
Depending on your data structure, PlanNumberSelected is the
value
field
from the data.
-TH
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40yahoogroups.com
ups.com,
ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Hello, I have seen this dicussed on here a bit but nothing
seems
to be
working for me. I have a DataGrid whose dataProvider
property is
bound
to an XMLList. One of the columns, however, uses an
itemRenderer to
display a checkbox with a label. The label comes from the
data item,
so this is what my itemRenderer component currently looks
like:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
com/2006/mxml
horizontalAlign=center creationComplete=getLabel()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import
com.fmr.tests.PSA_Cairngorm.business.namespaces.DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAM
ESP\
ACE;
private function getLabel():void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new QName
(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:CheckBox id=cb_planNumber /
/mx:HBox
The problem is that when the XMLList that is the
dataProvider is
updated, the checkboxes' labels get updated correctly, but
the
selected state of the checkboxes does not. So basically I
need to
capture that event so that I can uncheck all of the
checkboxes. A
'labelChanged' event or something similar would be great but
doesn't
seem to exist. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Hi Tim, The part I was referring to as 'dirty and hackish' was having to check to see if the data was actually new, due to the fact that the event/method fires whenever a row is scrolled in or out of view. I can only assume this is a bug and will attempt to report it as such unless someone informs me otherwise. As for your suggestion about passing in the data from the parent, I am certainly open to suggestions. Can you explain a bit further or show a brief example? Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at all. Overriding the set data function is commonly used. What feels dirty and hackish to me, is getting the data inside of the itemRenderer instead of passing it in from the parent. .02 :) -TH Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder flakiness
Hi Cameron, I am using the plugin version. I actually saw your post in another thread about these problems and will most likely install the standalone after purchasing FB. Here's hoping that fixes it! Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben- Are you using the plugin version of the Builder or the stand-alone version? I've had significant problems getting the Eclipse plugin version to work, having similar problems to the ones you describe. I finally gave up and installed the stand-alone builder and it seems to be behaving much better. -Cameron On 7/18/06, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FB seems to behave very unpredictably for me. On my machine at work it will not find or resolve any errors upon saving a file. To do either of those things I must actually build/launch the app. On my home machine, FB doesn't use the 'smart home' approach where pressing the Home key takes you to the first non-whitespace character. It takes you all the way home, disregarding any existing tabs. Can anyone tell me how to resolve these issues? Thanks, Ben -- 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 -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
[flexcoders] How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Hello, I have seen this dicussed on here a bit but nothing seems to be
working for me. I have a DataGrid whose dataProvider property is bound
to an XMLList. One of the columns, however, uses an itemRenderer to
display a checkbox with a label. The label comes from the data item,
so this is what my itemRenderer component currently looks like:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
horizontalAlign=center creationComplete=getLabel()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import
com.fmr.tests.PSA_Cairngorm.business.namespaces.DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
private function getLabel():void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new
QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:CheckBox id=cb_planNumber /
/mx:HBox
The problem is that when the XMLList that is the dataProvider is
updated, the checkboxes' labels get updated correctly, but the
selected state of the checkboxes does not. So basically I need to
capture that event so that I can uncheck all of the checkboxes. A
'labelChanged' event or something similar would be great but doesn't
seem to exist. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Correction: even the labels are not updating sometimes.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I have seen this dicussed on here a bit but nothing seems to be
working for me. I have a DataGrid whose dataProvider property is bound
to an XMLList. One of the columns, however, uses an itemRenderer to
display a checkbox with a label. The label comes from the data item,
so this is what my itemRenderer component currently looks like:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
horizontalAlign=center creationComplete=getLabel()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import
com.fmr.tests.PSA_Cairngorm.business.namespaces.DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
private function getLabel():void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new
QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:CheckBox id=cb_planNumber /
/mx:HBox
The problem is that when the XMLList that is the dataProvider is
updated, the checkboxes' labels get updated correctly, but the
selected state of the checkboxes does not. So basically I need to
capture that event so that I can uncheck all of the checkboxes. A
'labelChanged' event or something similar would be great but doesn't
seem to exist. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: Scaling up.
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[flexcoders] Re: How do I reset itemRenderer inside DataGrid when dataProvider is updated?
Thanks for the reply, Tim. Unfortunately, the selected state is not
held in the data. The checkboxes should always begin unchecked, but
the user can (obviously) check them. The checkboxes apparently get
reused though, not all created every time, because
cb_planNumber.selected = false; does not work either.
Thanks,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Ben,
In addition to setting the label, you have to set the selected property.
var q:QName = new QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
var r:QName = new QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE,
PlanNumberSelected);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
cb_planNumber.selected = data[r];
Depending on your data structure, PlanNumberSelected is the value field
from the data.
-TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ben.clinkinbeard
ben.clinkinbeard@ wrote:
Hello, I have seen this dicussed on here a bit but nothing seems to be
working for me. I have a DataGrid whose dataProvider property is bound
to an XMLList. One of the columns, however, uses an itemRenderer to
display a checkbox with a label. The label comes from the data item,
so this is what my itemRenderer component currently looks like:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
horizontalAlign=center creationComplete=getLabel()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import
com.fmr.tests.PSA_Cairngorm.business.namespaces.DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESP\
ACE;
private function getLabel():void
{
use namespace DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE;
var q:QName = new QName(DOCUMENT_METADATA_NAMESPACE, PlanNumber);
cb_planNumber.label = data[q];
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:CheckBox id=cb_planNumber /
/mx:HBox
The problem is that when the XMLList that is the dataProvider is
updated, the checkboxes' labels get updated correctly, but the
selected state of the checkboxes does not. So basically I need to
capture that event so that I can uncheck all of the checkboxes. A
'labelChanged' event or something similar would be great but doesn't
seem to exist. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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[flexcoders] Re: State vars: good, bad, ugly?
Thanks for the replies everyone. My app/TN actually has 8 states/tabs,
but I still ended up going with the simple approach. In case anyone is
interested, the code is below. Further thoughts still welcome.
mx:TabNavigator id=tn change=updateActiveTabIndex()
selectedIndex={ModelLocator.getInstance().activeTabIndex}
view:SearchTab label=Search id=searchTab width=100%
height=100% /
view:DocumentTab label=Document id=documentTab width=100%
height=100% /
!-- More tabs here --
/mx:TabNavigator
And the function that keeps my model updated when the tabs are
directly clicked:
private function updateActiveTabIndex():void
{
ModelLocator.getInstance().activeTabIndex = tn.selectedIndex;
}
And the types of commands I make from other parts of the app:
ModelLocator.getInstance().activeTabIndex = ModelLocator.DOCUMENT_TAB;
Cheers,
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[flexcoders] Re: Scaling up.
Just to clarify, I was wondering if the side-by-side was meant to be taken literally. Sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks, Ben Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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/
