In my experience an 'undocumented' API means: liable to change without notice in the next update.
At a higher level... I think we've got other things to do before we even think about supporting AS frameworks that have low level hooks into the original SDK. EdB On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure I understand. Lots of Flex wraps playerglobal.swc. Is it just > the fact that it is undocumented? > > At a higher level, goal is to try to see what it would take to support the > popular app frameworks like Parsley and Swiz in JS. Maybe the first step > is to just try it and see what its dependencies are. > > -Alex > > On 11/5/13 11:22 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Wow. >> >>Getting this to work involves creating a wrapper class around an >>undocumented method in playerglobal.swc, which is not under our >>control. >> >>That doesn't sound like a sustainable way forward :-( >> >>EdB >> >> >> >>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>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
