how do I actually get the data back to a caller function? you can't. The request is async. The caller has long since finished executing when the result comes back.
Have the resultHandler do whatever needs to be done with the result. --- In [email protected], "Wally Kolcz" <wko...@...> wrote: > > Looking for a little education from all the people smarter than me of > remoteObjects. I have always used the MXML version which includes the > resultHandler attribute which made managing the returned data easy. However I > never learned the AS version very well. I can create the remoteObject in AS > and call its method, add the EventListener, but how do I actually get the > data back to a caller function? > > index.mxml > import org.mywindow.data.Users; > > [Bindable] public var users:ArrayCollection; > > public function getMyData():void { > users = Users.getAll(); > } > > for the User's getAll function I have something like: > > UserDAO.as > ... > public var _users:ArrayCollection; > > public function getAll():void { > var UserDAO:RemoteObject = new RemoteObject(); > UserDAO.destination = "ColdFusion"; > UserDAO.source = "org.mywindow.data.userDAO"; > UserDAO.getAll.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, > resultHandler); > UserDAO.getAll.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, faultHandler); > } > > public function resultHandler(e:ResultEvent):ArrayCollection{ > _users = e as ArrayCollection; > return users; > } > > I know some of the code may be off, but I am trying to understand how a non > called function (resultHandler) can return data to the called function in a > different class. So my question is, if the index.mxml calls the getAll > function in the UserDAO class, will the getMyData function still receive the > ArrayCollection from the resultHandler? If I were to fire this off, till the > result be that my users ArrayCollection in the index.mxml be populated in the > end? Thanks! >
