> i was more asking if there was a way to just 'cast' that xml to the class, so i don't have to loop over the attributes
No, sorry, there isn't. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Anderson Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] easiest way to instantiate a class from xml data hey Alex, yes, there are about 10 different classes that can be called on this way, and currently I am linking to all of them so they will be available, I'm not using modules. i was more asking if there was a way to just 'cast' that xml to the class, so i don't have to loop over the attributes- but if that's the way to go, that will work too. thanks, d. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Your first problem is getting the classes you want to create to be available. Are you going to link in every class that can possibly be used? Are you going to use modules to load those classes? Once you have that, you can just run through the XML, get the name() for the tag, use getDefinition() to get the class and make the new class, then get the attributes() and assign them using [] syntax. ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Derrick Anderson Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:33 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] easiest way to instantiate a class from xml data say i have an xml node like <class property1="blah" /> what's the easiest way to convert that to: myClass = new class(); myClass.property1 = "blah"; i've seen it done with regular objects and VO's just by casting, but not with XML. this is dynamic in nature, so I'm wondering how i can convert the xml data to instantiated classes, any ideas? thanks, d.
