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>From: "Darren Houle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [flexcoders] How to cast a WebService lastResult when CFC >returnType="xml" >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:08:44 -0400 > >I have a ColdFusion Component (web service) that looks like... > ><cffunction name="getEmployees" access="remote" output="false" >returntype="xml"> > <cfxml variable="myxml"> > <people> > <person> > <firstname>John</firstname> > <lastname>Smith</lastname> > <job> > <title>Doctor</title> > <description>blah blah blah</description> > </job> > </person> > <person> > <firstname>Jane</firstname> > <lastname>Doe</lastname> > <job> > <title>Lawyer</title> > <description>blah blah blah</description> > </job> > </person> > </people> > </cfxml> > <cfreturn myxml> ></cffunction> > >and some Flex code that looks like... > ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ><mx:Application > xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; > creationComplete="TestService.getEmployees.send();"> > <mx:WebService id="TestService" wsdl="http://localhost/hr.cfc?wsdl";> > <mx:operation name="getEmployees" /> > </mx:WebService> > <mx:Tree > id="myTree" > width="50%" > height="50%" > showRoot="false" > dataProvider="{TestService.getEmployees.lastResult}"/> ></mx:Application> > >But what I get is a Tree that looks like: > >Flex doesn't seem to be able to extract the XML from the SOAP message, >which >is just SOAP XML wrapping my XML data. > >Changing the Operation's resultFormat from "e4x" to "xml" to "object" >changes the amount of junk in the Tree, but doesn't fix the problem. As a >matter of fact, it works best when I leave off this attribute and let the >Operation decide what resultFormat to use. > >Casting lastResult as XML or XMLList doesn't seem to help either, and >neither does >ArrayUtil.toArray(TestService.getEmployee.lastResult) > >Is there something I need to do to the lastResult to get it to work in >Trees, DataGrids, etc? Like cast it as some other data type? Why doesn't >e4x parse the SOAP message properly and extract my XML? > >Just about every example I can find out there shows people using >HTTPService >to pull back just the XML data without the SOAP webservice stuff, or else >shows how to create XML inside the mxml code itself using <mx:XML> but I >can >find nothing that shows how to return XML from a CFC web service and >use/parse it in Flex properly (as easy as, say, a CFC that returns a Query >object.) > >Darren -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
