That is not as bad as I thought it might be(I was expecting to see the default resultFormat. E4x is good!), but it is a bit odd. You are manually building an ArrayCollection of XML nodes.
I don't see any reason to do that. Just use XMLListCollection, and avoid the loop. Now, "best practice", or at least this list's apparent consensus of best practice, is to do what you are doing, but instead of adding xml nodes, you populate a strongly data typed "Value Object" and add tht to the ArrayCollection. This is probably the most efficient and performant approach. But I mostly use XML and XMLListCollection. Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of - - Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection DataProvider question. Hi Tracy, this is how I get the XML info into an ArrayCollection: <mx:HTTPService url="days.php" useProxy="false" method="POST" id="Days" resultFormat="e4x" result="get_days(event)"> private function get_days(event:ResultEvent):void { Arraydays.removeAll(); XMLdays = event.result as XML; for each(var ourxml:XML in XMLdays.elements()) Arraydays.addItem(ourxml); } Is this ok? Thanks -David ________________________________ From: Tracy Spratt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:19:53 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection DataProvider question. I suggest using e4x expressions against the XML, and then putting the result in an XMLListCollection. var xlResults:XMLList = xmlData.result. (attribute("id") == "1"); trace(xlResults. toXMLString( )); //to verify your data xlcResults = new XMLListCollection( xlResults) ; You did not say how you got your XML into an ArrayCollection, but I suspect it is not the good way. Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ________________________________ From: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com <http://ups.com/> [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Henrique Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:19 PM To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection DataProvider question. Humm, you have to make a filterFunction, like this: private function filterFucntion( item:Object) :Boolean { return item.id <http://item.id/> == "1"; } Henrique F. Marino blog.dclick. com.br <http://blog.dclick.com.br/> www.dclick.com. br <http://www.dclick.com.br/> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:35 PM, sailorsea21 <sailorsea21@ yahoo.com <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I loaded the following xml as an ArrayCollection. <data> <result id="1"> <date>today</date> <yes>13154</yes> <no>654321</no> </result> <result id="1"> <date>yesterday</date> <yes>21354</yes> <no>5468432</no> </result> <result id="2"> <date>today</date> <yes>2665</yes> <no>4256</no> </result> <result id="2"> <date>yesterday</date> <yes>7425</yes> <no>7542</no> </result> </data> How can I use this as a dataprovider but only using the values in <result id="1"> and not <result id="2">? My arraycollection var is "Arraydays". I tried {Arraydays.( @id=='2')} but it gave me an error: Error #1123: Filter operator... Thanks.
