Thank you, tracy. I'm already doing the manual conversion which you've outlined. Glad to confirm that I'm not doing it the naive way. I'm loading the xml file locally, so no auto-conversion in lastResult there.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you leave the resultFormat as the default "object", then Flex will > convert the xml into a nested object tree automatically. But this is > not a very good way to do this. > > > > If you are sure you do not want to work directly with XML and > XMLListCollection (there are pros and cons), then your best bet will be > to: > > 1) Define a class with strongly typed public properties to hold your > item data (VO) > > 2) Set resultFormat="e4x" to prevent Flex from converting your data. > > 3) In the handler, convert event.result to xml:var myXML:XML = > XML(event.result); > > 3) Using an e4x expression on the xmlResult, get your items in an > XMLList. > > 4) for-loop over the XMLList, instanitating a new VO, and assigning the > values from the XMLnode to the appropriate VO property > > 5) Push that onto a temporary array > > 6) Create a new ArrayCollection() from the temporary array. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Kong > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:20 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] How to convert an e4x XML object into an AS > object? > > > > I know SimpleXMLDecoder can decode a legacy XMLNode to an object and > make good guesses at basic types such as string vs. int. But if I have > the new e4x XML object, how do I easily convert that to objects? Or > convert from E4X to XMLNode? >
