Told you it was under-documented ;-). The secret handshake is apparently to ignore autocomplete and use google. Looks like it is avmplus.describeTypeJSON(). I've not used it, but there was a recent thread about it.
On 11/5/13 9:54 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <[email protected]> wrote: >My FlashBuilder's autocomplete is not aware of such a method. Any >secret handshakes I should be aware of to activate it? > >EdB > > > >On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: >> Apparently, there is a under-documented describeTypeJSON which I think >>the >> application frameworks are using to get any and all metadata on a class >> and its methods because it is much faster than regular describeType. >> Maybe we should do that. >> >> -Alex >> >> On 11/5/13 5:42 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>flash.utils.describeType has an XML return type. JavaScript doesn't >>>have anything like that and I'm sure we don't want to simulate it for >>>the purpose of this exercise. >>> >>>I suggest we create a utility class >>>"org.apache.flex.utils.DescribeType" and put some static methods on it >>>that allow us to get tailored introspection... Maybe start with >>>'DescribeType.getMetaData(value:*)'? >>> >>>What metadata are you thinking of, specifically? >>> >>>EdB >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Ix Multimedia Software >>> >>>Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>3521 VB Utrecht >>> >>>T. 06-51952295 >>>I. www.ixsoftware.nl >> > > > >-- >Ix Multimedia Software > >Jan Luykenstraat 27 >3521 VB Utrecht > >T. 06-51952295 >I. www.ixsoftware.nl
