I originally posted this on Adobe's web site back in Nov/06...
Title: Sending a ByteArray of rich text to a Java Web Service via
WebService component.
Topic: Keeping the rich text (HTML formatted string) intact
I was able to send and receive rich text (HTML formatted txt) intact
via a Java web service using Weblogic 9.2. Creating a web service in
Weblogic 8.1 is more difficult so I opted for this route. Regardless
what back end implementation you are using, in order to keep rich text
intact is to send it via a ByteArray in flex. And with the web service
(possibly using Coldfusion), be sure that the input parameter and
return types that the WSDL creates are "base64Binary."
Creating a web service in Weblogic 9.2 is pretty easy. If you are
using this app server then the 9.2 docs on Web Services is how I
created my back end. My web service simply accepts a byte[] as a
parameter and returns it.
public class HelloWorldImpl {
public byte[] getBytes(byte[] bAry) {
return bAry;
}
}
In flex:
[Bindable] private var bAryObj:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
[Bindable] private var txtResult:String;
public function sendingBytes(event:Event) {
// inputTxt is a HTML formatted string a.k.a rich text
bAryObj.writeUTF(inputTxt);
// call webService
wsData.getBytes.send();
}
public function webSvcHandler(event:ResultEvent) {
var b:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
b.position = 0; // make sure you read the array from the beginning
// use binding of txtResult in some component as {txtResult}
txtResult = b.readUTF() as String;
}
mxml - be sure mxml parameter names match exactly the web service
parameter names:
<mx:WebService id="wsData"
wsdl="yourWsdl"
result="webSvcHandler(event)"
fault="faultHandler(event)"
<mx:operation name="getBytes">
<mx:request xmlns="">
<bAry>{bAryObj}</bAry>
</mx:request>
</mx:operation>
</mx:WebService>
I used a Button component to call sendingBytes() via the click event.
Hope I didn't forget anything...and hope this helps.
Bob I.
--- In [email protected], "pdflibpilot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to develop a method to allow web administrators to be able
> to edit text in their Flex application directly in the UI (without
> Flex). This text gets saved to mySQL when they close the rich text
> editor.
>
> The data is stored correctly in mySQL however when its retrieved it
> gets formated as an XML object when extracted from the event.result.
>
> While this makes it easy to populate the various labels and text
> objects with the rich text data. The problem is that the rich text
> data gets formatted as XML with new lines and indents. Like in this
> dmup............
>
> <contentLive>
> <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">
> <P ALIGN="CENTER">
> <FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="14" COLOR="#FFFFFF" LETTERSPACING="0"
> KERNING="0">
> <B>This is </B>
> <FONT COLOR="#0033FF">
> <B>
> <U>live content</U>
> </B>
> </FONT>
> </FONT>
> </P>
> </TEXTFORMAT>
> </contentLive>
>
> How can I force it to treat it as raw text just like its stored in
> mySQL without the formatting ?
>
