Hi Sam,
Remoting is definitely a good alternative and would probably make things a bit easier. I'm not programming the .net side of things though and the guys who are working on the backend are not too keen on using a technology which is not established standards yet. I had a look at Fluorine earlier this year and it looks very good though.... Cheers Robin ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Shrefler Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex and .net webservices 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=6> http://blog.shrefler.net/?p=10 <http://blog.shrefler.net/?p=10> Hope that helps Sam On 12/12/06, Robin Burrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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: flexcoders@ <mailto:flexcoders@> yahoogroups.com <http://yahoogroups.com> ] 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] ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups.com <http://yahoogroups.com> ] 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] <mailto: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 >
