Yes Tracy... I was working on two similar issues at the same time and one used Tree while the other didn't. The Tree question was answered a while back (using labelField) so I got confused... sorry :-) and thanks!
Darren >From: "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to cast a WebService lastResult when CFC >returnType="xml" >Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:06:57 -0400 > >Darren, > >You are using a tree according to the example in your post. Or have you >changed your question? > > > >At any rate, binding is very difficult to debug. I advise using a handler >function in which you can use toXMLString() on the event.result object. > > > >Then work your way down through the hierarchy a step at a time. > > > >When you get the expression that works you can put it in the binding >expression. > > > >Tracy > > > >________________________________ > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Darren Houle >Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:30 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to cast a WebService lastResult when CFC >returnType="xml" > > > >Peter, > >Thanks! But I'm not using the results in a Tree or Grid, which seem to have >some magical parsing happening inside for you. I just want to do something >as simple as pulling a node value out of the incoming SOAP wrapped XML and >using it in, say, a TextArea. But... the following doesn't work... > ><mx:TextArea >text="{MyService.myOperation.lastResult.people.person.firstname}" /> > >nor does > >MyService.myOperation.lastResult.people.person[0].firstname >MyService.myOperation.lastResult.person.firstname >MyService.myOperation.lastResult.person[0].firstname > >or any other pattern I've tried. Amy suggested referencing the path all the >way from the root node of the SOAP packet itself and treating the entire >SOAP message as a bix XML result, instead of just the node path of the >result. Something like... > >MyService.myOperation.lastResult.myOperationResult.people.person.firstname > >but I couldn't get that to work either. > >Darren > > >From: "Peter Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:pwatson%40adobe.com> > > >Reply-To: [email protected] ><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > >To: <[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > >Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to cast a WebService lastResult when CFC > >returnType="xml" > >Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:29:48 -0700 > > > >Darren, > > > >If your XML nodes have attributes (ie. <node label="foo"></node>) - you > >can use the 'labelField' attribute to control the labels. > > > > <mx:Tree id="myTree" labelField="@label"/> > > > >If they don't (ie. <foo>bar</foo>) - or if you want to do any sort of > >custom label logic, you need to use the 'labelFunction' attribute to set > >the values appropriately. > > > ><mx:Tree id="myTree2 labelFunction="myLabelFunc"/> > > > > public function myLabelFunc (item:XML):String{ > > > > //if node has children > > > > if(item.children().toString() != > >''){ > > > > return item.name(); > > > > } > > > > //no children, it's a leaf so get > >the value > > > > else{ > > > > return > >item.toXMLString(); > > > > } > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > >regards, > > > >peter > > > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > >From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> >[mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] >On > >Behalf Of Darren Houle > >Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:33 PM > >To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > >Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to cast a WebService lastResult when CFC > >returnType="xml" > > > > > > > >Bump?? > > > >Darren > > > > >From: "Darren Houle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:lokka_%40hotmail.com> ><mailto:lokka_%40hotmail.com> > > > > > >Reply-To: [email protected] ><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > ><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > >To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > >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 ><http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > ><http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > " > > > creationComplete="TestService.getEmployees.send();"> > > > <mx:WebService id="TestService" wsdl="http://localhost/hr.cfc?wsdl ><http://localhost/hr.cfc?wsdl> > ><http://localhost/hr.cfc?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/
