Robin: It sounds like you may be looking for a Remoting Gateway which uses AMF rather than Web Services and has the ability to translate .NET <-> AS Objects.
I've got articles written on two different options, Fluorine and WebOrb. http://blog.shrefler.net/?p=6 http://blog.shrefler.net/?p=10 Hope that helps Sam On 12/12/06, Robin Burrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Darron's ObjectTranslator works perfectly – thanks for the tip! I still have to do some manual work though since I'm going to have nested VOs…. R ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Robin Burrer *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 December 2006 3:32 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex and .net webservices Thanks Ben, I tried that. It still does not work ..:-(. I got rid of everything which could cause errors. … Here's the code. I reckon this is as basic as it gets … public function onMyResult(event:ResultEvent):void { // this works fine var myObject:Object = Object(event.result); // this causes an error (Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert [EMAIL PROTECTED] to webserviceClasses.Employee.) var myEmployee:Employee = Employee(event.result); // does not work trace ( myEmployee.employeeName); // does work trace ( myObject.employeeName); } ]]> /// the web service object </mx:Script> <mx:WebService showBusyCursor="true" wsdl="http://localhost/ComplexDataTypeService/Service1.asmx?WSDL"; id="myWebservice" makeObjectsBindable="false"> <mx:operation name="getDetails" result="{ onMyResult (event)}" resultFormat="object"/> </mx:WebService> // the Employee object: public class Employee (AS) { public var employeeName:String; public var employeeID:int; } (c#) public class Employee { public string employeeName; public int employeeID; } Any ideas? Robin ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *ben.clinkinbeard *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 December 2006 2:02 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: Flex and .net webservices Hi Robin, I have good news :), both of these issues should go away by setting a single attribute on your WebService object. Try setting makeObjectsBindable = false. This will cause Flex to deserialize your ws responses into regular Object and Array instances instead of ObjectProxy and ArrayCollection instances. HTH, Ben --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Robin Burrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have been playing around .net and flex for a while. Primarily I want > to send value objects (consisting of strings, intergers and arrays of > VOs) back and forth. > > > > I could not figure out how to do the following things though: > > > > > > 1. Sending arrays to a webservice works fine. However when I > receive an array of the .net data type "array" flex creates and Array > Collection data type. Sending arrays as "array collections" to a web > service causes an error. That's really annoying when you try to keep > the VOs consitent on both ends. What's the solution for this? > > > > > > 2. When I receive a complex data type from a .net web service flex > creates an Object but when I try to cast this object to the dataType it > represents I get a complier error, even though the received object has > exactly the same properties as underlying VO. > > > > E.g. I get the following error code if I try to cast the result of a > webservice call to my custom data Type "TelephoneNumber". Note casting > to an "Object" works fine. > > > > > > TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert > mx.utils::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to webserviceClasses.TelephoneNumber. > > > > > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > > > > > Robin >
