Here is a good blog post regarding this topic:
http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/03/25/flex-air-serialization-lesso ns-learned/ One thing it doesn't describe is how to deal with classes that have a constructor with args. The way to deal with that is to have default values for the args in the constructor. When an object is deserialized, the constructor is automatically invoked, but in the case of a constructor that has arguments, the constructor invocation during the deserialization process has no values to pass to the constructor. Having default values for constructor args alleviates this issue and avoids an error being thrown. In the readExternal method (implemented as part of the IExternalizable interface) you can carry out the operations that the constructor normally would with values read from the serialized object. This will result in a deserialized object that will look as it would if it had been created by calling it with constructor args. FYI, I'll have a sample for this up on my blog in the next few days (http://flexmonkeypatches.com <http://flexmonkeypatches.com/> ) HTH -Kyle ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Battershall, Jeff Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Saving Typed Objects with AIR Nick, When you de-serialze your object you can cast it to the type you want. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Collins Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:34 AM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] Saving Typed Objects with AIR I'm trying to use the AIR file libraries to write an actionscript object and it saves it just fine but it saves it as just a type of Object. Is there a way where I can save the actionscript objects, yet maintain their typing?
