I've done it in Cairngorm before. My business delegate extends the
flash.utils.Proxy class and forwards all the calls to the backend. To
make this work, you have to make the delegate dynamic though. This
means you loose some type safety.

Ralf


On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:42 AM, frank_sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I wonder how the describeType() function does its work... that seems
> to have
> access to some reflective information about a class.
>
> Actually, I have a system that uses BlazeDS for remote calls. What I'd like
> to do is to be
> able to automatically proxy server-side classes: given a method name on the
> local proxy,
> I want to be able automatically dispatch a remote method with the same name
> and same
> arguments to the server. The calls are made asynchronously and dispatch
> events when
> they return. Right now I have to refer to the current method name with a
> String. That's
> duplicate information, and also doesn't enforce that the local and remote
> method names
> are the same. I'd hate to use code generation for this, so if a
> Function.name property
> existed, that'd do the trick.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Frank
>
> --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I bet you are trying to find a nifty way to log your code's processing,
>> right? This comes up a lot and really, there is no good way to do it.
>>
>>
>>
>> You might try the archives, in case I missed something, but if I'd ever
>> heard a good solution I would have used it myself.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of frank_sommers
>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:39 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [flexcoders] Obtaining name of method
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to obtain the name of method, given a Function
>> object.
>>
>> For instance, inside a method, I can obtain a reference to the method by
>> calling
>> arguments.callee. But how do I then obtain from the Function object the
>> function's name:
>>
>> public function testFunction():void {
>> var f:Function = arguments.callee;
>> // How do I get f's name (e.g., "testFunction") here?
>> }
>>
>> I was thinking of iterating through the object's properties, and finding
>> if a given property
>> is the function itself, but this only works for methods dynamically
>> added to the object:
>>
>> public function testFunction():void {
>> var f:Function = arguments.callee;
>> for (var p:String in this) {
>> if (f == this[p]) {
>> // Function name is p
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Again, this doesn't work.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Frank
>>
>
> 

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