I've got a few examples of how to go about using this sort of implementation with SimpleXMLDecoder along with recursive ObjectTranslator calls, tied into HTTPService calls using xmlDecode =]
http://booleanbetrayal.com/2007/05/18/httpservice-xmldecode-objecttranslator-and-rabidsquirrels/ Hope this helps ... I've done this a few times with various serialization strategies, including JSON, too. --- In [email protected], "lytvynyuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Troy, for your suggestions. > > I cannot understand one thing, using SimpleXMLDecoder i got Object > from XML BUT I cannot make this ObjectProxy cast to my Album Object. > What is the condition to cast object.... fields are same, I cant > understand how does it works :( > > --- In [email protected], "Troy Gilbert" <troy.gilbert@> > wrote: > > > > > Does anybody have good examples how SimpleXMLDecoder works ? > > > > I've never found a good one. Senocular has a library called > > XMLDefinition (google it). I've not looked at it too much, but it > > superficially appears to do what you're looking for. > > > > I don't like the idea of passing the XML into the object for it to > > self-populate (or its counterpart spitting out a piece of XML for > > serialization). In my mind, serialization (which is what this is) is a > > related but independent class from the model itself. Of course, that's > > not a weird suggestion... its how Java implements serialization and > > how AS3 does it generically as well. Though frustratingly these > > dynamic languages don't provide general purpose API for doing it with > > strong typing. > > > > Come on, Adobe, XML is the lingua franca of the web (if not of > > business software) and its a native type in AS3. There should be > > trivial, native serialization of objects with strong types to and from > > XML (in the same way that there is for the, ahem, proprietary AMF > > format). > > > > Troy. > > >
