Ben, I don't think ObjectTranslator is the way to go here. I would develop a simple QName to Class map. If an element had complex content and its QName was known to map to a Class, I'd create a new instance of that class. I would then ensure that all of my Classes implemented an interface that guaranteed that they could populate themselves from XML. This is important as it avoids expensive generic type reflection when determining how to set properties on an instance of a Class. (For an expensive example, consider properties that are typed as Array or are very losely typed but could potentially hold an Array!). For unknown types you could just create a plain old Object and that is much easier to handle generic XML -> AS conversion as all properties are of type Object. SOAP is just not a fast way of transmitting huge amounts of data as generic deserialization based on XML Schemas will never be as fast as purposed deserialization.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Flex choking while converting less than 2 MB of data I am calling a web service that sometimes returns up to 1.9 MB of SOAP formatted data. I have left the resultFormat set to object, and it seems to handle the initial parsing into anonymous objects without much trouble. However, when I attempt to convert this structure into class instances the player chokes and usually ends up freezing the browser. The object structure consists of one main Batch object instance, which contains 2000 BatchDocument instances, which in turn each contain a single ClientInfo object instance and up to four Plan object instances. This doesn't seem like a structure that Flex should fail so miserably with as the performance everywhere else has been pretty impressive. I have attempted this using Darron Schall's ObjectTranslator class (http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000247.cfm <http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000247.cfm> ) as well as simply passing the anonymous objects to my class constructors. Both result in a completely unusable application. Any help is greatly appreciated. Ben
