write a method on your Customer and Product classes as follows:
public function toString():String
{
return this.<insertyourinterestingStringpropertyhere>;
}
If you want more than that you can write a custom renderer for your
classes and associate it with the datagrid columns.
--- In [email protected], "André Rodrigues Pena"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using a DataGrid to the result of a RemoteObject. Each record is
> an Object of type Sale that has this simplified definition:
>
> package beans
> {
> [Managed]
> [RemoteClass(alias="com.beans.Sale")]
> public class Sale {
> public var id:int;
> public var customer:Customer;
> public var product:Product;
> }
> }
>
> Notice that customer and product are complex types, that also have
> correspondent back-end classes.
>
> I manage to retrieve data successfully from the server. For instance,
> if I handle the RO result like this:
>
> public function handleResult(event:Object):void {
> sales = ICollectionView(event.result);
> var a:Sale = sales[0];
> Alert.show(String(a.product.name));
> }
>
> the product "name" is displayed properly, what proves that the data
> was retrieved.
>
> Although when I try to populate de DataGrid, I can't set a
> DataGridColumn to display the property "name" within the property
> "product" from the data provider. The code is the following:
>
> <mx:DataGrid id="datagrid" dataProvider="{sales}" width="100%"
height="100%">
> <mx:columns>
> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="id"
> headerText="Id"/>
> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="product.name"
> headerText="Product"/>
> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="customer.name"
> headerText="Customer"/>
> </mx:columns>
> </mx:DataGrid>
>
> Only the simple attribute "id" is properly displayed in the DataGrid
>
> Why? What can I do?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> André Rodrigues Pena
>
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>
