to be precise, reflection is present in flash player (via describetype) but the queries about structure of some class are not cached, and accessible as xml not as a collection or something similar.
2012/3/7 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: > > > > On 3/7/12 9:08 AM, "Stefan Horochovec" <stefan.horocho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well >> >> In my previous email I suggested was a reflection API built into the >> Flex SDK, and also cited an example a third API that does this, but at >> no time I said that we should copy, request that was donated, so I >> suggested that was developed this feature natively, as there is in >> Java eg >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/package-summary >> .html > Reflection should probably be a VM feature, which it isn't, and I don't see > it happening soon. That doesn't mean that we can't tweak the compiler to > add additional properties to classes under some convention so you can get > most of what you want. >> >> Anyway, the idea was not well regarded? No problem, as I said, it was >> just an idea launched. And after that, I sent an email wondering what >> is the main focus at this time to work on the SDK. Also, ask if it was >> that the development of Spark is still lacking a lot compared to Halo. > There is no "official" focus. Some folks will work on Spark, some will work > on 3.x, some will be working on Maven integration, some will work on the > compiler, some will work on targeting other platforms, etc. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
