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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>Ix Multimedia Software
>>>
>>>Jan Luykenstraat 27
>>>3521 VB Utrecht
>>>
>>>T. 06-51952295
>>>I. www.ixsoftware.nl
>>
>
>
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>-- 
>Ix Multimedia Software
>
>Jan Luykenstraat 27
>3521 VB Utrecht
>
>T. 06-51952295
>I. www.ixsoftware.nl

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