Huh. I didn’t remember that you did that. There’s a JSONReviver class in Reflection and a JSON2ASVO example project which seems to demo how to use it.
Harbs > On Apr 21, 2021, at 7:45 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote: > > FWIW, IMO, it is a bit easier for data to be untyped in Royale than it was in > Flex. > > Flex was designed to support strongly-typed data coming from Flex Data > Services, SOAP, and RemoteObject/AMF before REST-ful JSON services became > popular. Also the Flash runtime verifier was way more likely to catch > implicit casts like in parameters to functions, so things were more likely to > throw exceptions in the data layer in Flex. > > I'm pretty sure I proved Royale can have a Reviver so that JSON.parse > converts to typed objects. > > But other code that is being migrated from Flex to Royale that expected a > typed object may no longer get a typed object after the data layer is ported. > > HTH, > -Alex > > On 4/21/21, 9:34 AM, "Josh Tynjala" <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev > <mailto:joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev>> wrote: > > I guess Features and Concepts -> ActionScript 3 (AS3) would be the correct > category in the docs. Ideally, this category will eventually be filled with > many pages that teach a user how to use each of the language features of > AS3. So there should probably be a page that teaches how to cast an object > to a different type. > > At the bare minimum, the page about casting should also demonstrate the > syntax and explain how each type of cast behaves: > > ActionScript has two different types of casts. > > Function casts: > > var obj:MyType = MyType(anotherObj); > > As casts: > > var obj:MyType = anotherObj as MyType; > > Function casts throw an exception when the cast fails. As casts return null > when the cast fails. > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC > <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbowlerhat.dev%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=L%2FLItyIefqFVoK%2FD8Naskku%2FovrZszTexkKdznHvL2U%3D&reserved=0 > > <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbowlerhat.dev%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=L%2FLItyIefqFVoK%2FD8Naskku%2FovrZszTexkKdznHvL2U%3D&reserved=0>> > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:16 AM Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com > <mailto:cottag...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> Where in the docs should I capture this wisdom? >> >> On Wed., Apr. 21, 2021, 12:57 p.m. Josh Tynjala, < >> joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev <mailto:joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev>> >> wrote: >> >>> Just like how things worked in Flash, you can't just cast a random `var >>> obj:Object = {}` to a class. It needs to be a real instance of that >> class. >>> The basic rule to keep in mind is this: You can use `as CustomVO` with >>> something that was created with `new CustomVO()`. For any other type, an >> as >>> cast returns null. >>> >>> -- >>> Josh Tynjala >>> Bowler Hat LLC >>> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbowlerhat.dev%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=L%2FLItyIefqFVoK%2FD8Naskku%2FovrZszTexkKdznHvL2U%3D&reserved=0 >>> >>> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbowlerhat.dev%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=L%2FLItyIefqFVoK%2FD8Naskku%2FovrZszTexkKdznHvL2U%3D&reserved=0>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 4:24 PM gbarbosa <gbarbosa...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:gbarbosa...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Royale, >>>> >>>> I was recently trying to cast an Object >>>> >>>> obj as CustomVO >>>> >>>> but it would always turn to null. The as operator kept thinking >> CustomVO >>>> was >>>> type Function() why would this be? >>>> >>>> The workaround ending up being to set the prototype. >>>> >>>> Object.setPrototypeOf(obj, CustomVO.prototype); >>>> >>>> and this successfully casted correctly. Is there a better way to do >> this? >>>> Most likely something something to do with the structure of CustomVO? >> the >>>> classes it extends? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your time. >>>> >>>> -Gabriel Barbosa >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from: >>>> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=f0yhKv89bLx9OCfDw1Ten%2B6NzeibvhOiJPorbThvo74%3D&reserved=0 >>>> >>>> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C4e8839a0c6594ce9db4508d904e351a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637546196639755635%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=f0yhKv89bLx9OCfDw1Ten%2B6NzeibvhOiJPorbThvo74%3D&reserved=0>
