Hi Vijay,
Only mapping Strings to Enums is supported. Can you file an enhancement
request? http://bugs.adobe.com/flex
Let the list know the bug number so those interested can go vote for it.
-James
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 19:05 -0800, moonusamy wrote:
> Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. I have an AS class
> corresponding to every Java class including enums. I want to be able
> to pass an instance of the AS class as the arg and have it translate
> to the appropriate Enum.
>
> So basically here's what I want to do:
> on the Java side:
> public enum Color {RED, GREEN}
> A method on a Java class Bar as follows:
> public void foo(Color c);
>
> on the AS side:
> [RemoteClass(alias="Color")]
> public class ASColor implements IExternalizable
> {
> private var _value:String;
>
> public function ASColor(val:String=null):void {
> this._value = val;
> }
>
> public function get value():String {
> return this._value;
> }
>
> public static const RED:String = "RED";
> public static const RED:String = "GREEN";
>
> public function readExternal(input:IDataInput):void {
> this._value = input.readUTF();
> }
>
> public function writeExternal(output:IDataOutput):void {
> output.writeUTF(this._value);
> }
> }
>
> var c:ASColor = new ASColor(ASColor.RED);
> invoke foo(c) thru RemoteObject
>
> Note: The enum implementation on the AS side is weak but that is just
> a limitation of AS3 not having an equivalent of readResolve().
>
> --- In [email protected], "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > If you have an Enum argument in a Java method, you need to send it a
> > String. During method invocation, BlazeDS will use
> > Enum.valueOf(desiredClass, yourStringValue) to create an enum on
> your
> > behalf.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On
> > Behalf Of moonusamy
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:45 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [flexcoders] BlazeDS and Java 5 Enum Support - works only
> one
> > way?
> >
> >
> > If I have a Java method that returns an Enum, it seems to be
> serialized
> > ok as a String, but if I have a Java method that takes an Enum
> argument,
> > I get the same error I used to get before with LCDS 2.5.1:
> >
> > faultDetail = "Types cannot be instantiated without a public, no
> > arguments constructor."
> >
> > Java 5 Enums don't have public no-arg constructors.
> >
> > Unless I am missing something, Enum support in BlazeDS works only
> one
> > way. Anyone hit this?
> >
> > Vijay
> >
> >
> >
> >
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