Let's discuss options for the hotfix offline. ________________________________
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jamiebadman Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:53 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Setting ByteArray to a specific string value ? Thanks for the info. Does this mean that until the hotfix is released, there's no way I can call this webservice from Flex? Unfortunately time constraints on this mean I need to find a way to do this asap so waiting for a fix won't be an option. Don't suppose this fix is already in Flash 9 is it ? I could possibly create a function in Flash for the call to the webservice then embed the Flash in Flex and call the Flash function from the Flex... would that work ?! BTW - an earlier post suggested I try writeUTFBytes - unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. Here's what happens... My string in Flex, for example, might be 'FRED'... so I do this: var bAryObj:ByteArray = new ByteArray(); var password:String = "FRED"; bAryObj.writeUTFBytes(password); If I look in bAryObj I can see it is 4 bytes in size. So I then call the webservice and look at the packet sent to it via Ethereal which shows me this: <ns0:password xmlns:ns0="http://xxx.yyy.com <http://xxx.yyy.com> "> R1JFRA== </ns0:password> And then of course the service fails with invalid username/password. So what is happening is, the bAryObj is being 64-bit encoded before it gets sent to the service. Normally this would be fine - but unfortunately in this case, I do not want the encoding to take place - because the string I have is already encoded. I thought maybe I could decode it then pass THAT value across so it then gets encoded back to the original but unfortunately the decoded version does not seem to be a string at all; it's a true binary array. Any ideas ? Jamie. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The new WebService implementation due out soon in Flex 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 > (developed during the LCDS 2.5 timeframe) should fix this problem. > > FWIW, there is a Base64Encoder in rpc.swc that is not yet documented > (but will be in the next version of Flex). Here's how you can use it > now: > > import mx.utils.Base64Encoder; > > // ... > > var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder(); > encoder.encode(myPassword); > var encodedPassword:String = encoder.drain(); > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of jamiebadman > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 6:46 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Setting ByteArray to a specific string value ? > > > > Ok, I'm not even sure if the topic is right... here's what I'm > trying to do... > > I need to call a webservice which has as a parameter a base 64 > binary field. This needs to contain a password field in an encrypted > (string) form. This has been provided to me as a string and it is > this exact value I need to send to the webservice. > > So I tried first sending it as a string but when I run ethereal > (which shows me what's actually being sent to the webservice) I see > that no data is being sent for the password. > > So I tried using ByteArray instead - and this shows data being sent - > but not the data I tried to store in the ByteArray... I tried > storing the string into the ByteArray using writeUTF, > writeMultiByte, looping through the string and storing each char > code in each ByteArray element... no luck as yet - the value of the > ByteArray being sent to the Service always seems to have a value > different from the value I'm trying to set it to! > > I'm certain this is a case of pure ignorance on my part - does > anyone both understand what I'm trying to do and also understand why > it's not right ?! If so... help!!!! > > Thanks, > > Jamie. >
