You can just return null. I think the best thing for you to do is to go to one of the typedefs, build, and look at the generated sources.
For example cd …\royale-typedefs cd google_maps ant; cd target\generated-sources Explore the .as classes there. Hope this helps. From: Carlos Rovira<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:05 PM To: Apache Royale Development<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems to create AS3 externs when JS library returns some kind of object Hi, additional to this, is how we can create an extern function that return something: public function someFoo(s:String):String {}; AS3 expect here some return value inside the brackets. So how we can write this in AS3 without errors? thanks El mié., 15 abr. 2020 a las 10:48, Carlos Rovira (<[email protected]>) escribió: > Hi, > > I'm playing with a js markdown library [1] to see if is an option to make > a Royale website that load markdown and render it (I'm experimenting to see > if we can't remove wordpress from our website and make a web based on > markdown similar to royale-docs) > > I'm having problems trying to create the extern as3 file. I'm trying > something similar to what we did with hljs. Here's my try: > > > package > { > /** > * marked js library > */ > COMPILE::JS > public class marked > { > /** > * > * <inject_html> > * <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked/marked.min.js > "></script> > * </inject_html> > * > * @royaleignorecoercion String > */ > public function marked(s:String):String {}; > > /** > * configure marked with options > */ > public function setOptions(o:Object):void {}; > } > } > > The problem is > > public function marked(s:String):String {}; > > since the library gets a String and returns a String, but AS3 constructors > must be void > > I remember Josh posted alternative ways to create this kind of AS3 stubs, > but he posted in a paste apache that is now gone. > Anyway would be good to know if this is a limitation of AS3 language and > we can't create this kind of AS3 classes that model a JS library with > constructors that return something like a string. > > Thanks > > [1] https://marked.js.org/#/README.md#usage > > -- > Carlos Rovira > http://about.me/carlosrovira > > -- Carlos Rovira http://about.me/carlosrovira
