If you dg doesn't contain the same VO's you think you got from the server, I'd double check the [RemoteClass] metadata.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Anderson Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? coldfusion, but i don't think it matters- i'm trying to take an actionscript object (the selectedItem of a datagrid) and cast it to another actionscript object (my VO). i suspected the mx_internal_uid property on the list item is messing me up, it's the only property that comes into the VO from the datagrid that the VO does not have- so i got to googling. http://blog.smashedapples.com/2008/02/my-boring-base.html <http://blog.smashedapples.com/2008/02/my-boring-base.html> so now i have a base VO class that all my other VO's extend, and in this superclass I loop over properties and remove that one, and now- it all works fine. thanks, d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: well are you using ColdFusion? AMFPHP? ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 2:36:26 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? i do get the employee list from a database, and I tried putting RemoteClass metadata on the VO class with an alias- no luck- same error. d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: well are you getting this from a Database, if you are then you may be able to use the RemoteClass metadata? ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 2:12:48 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? actually, the link was http://casario. blogs.com/ mmworld/2007/ 04/casting_ a_datag.html <http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2007/04/casting_a_datag.html> it's a very simple example of exactly what I'm trying to do. d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: i've seen other examples of this working.. http://casario. blogs.com/ mmworld/2007/ 04/passing_ actions.html <http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2007/04/passing_actions.html> i tried setting it a property at a time and that of course works- but i'll have to write much more code and it will be harder to maintain. thanks, d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Ok i think you can't do that since I am looking at Adobe <http://www.adobe.com/> Flex Professional 2.0 wrox book and they have a similar example and what they did was EmployeeVO.employee ID = objectName.employee ID; ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 1:51:08 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? ok, here is EmployeeVO.as package com.winn.vo { [Bindable] public class EmployeeVO { public var employeeID:uint; public var roleID:Number; public var employeeTypeID: Number; public var employeeStatusID: Number; } } then in my mxml file i have a simple datagrid <mx:DataGrid id="employeeDataGrid" width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{ EmployeesModel. getInstance( ).employeesList }" > with a click listener employeeDataGrid. addEventListener ( MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler ); and here is clickHandler public function clickHandler( event:MouseEvent ):void { var testVO:EmployeeVO = EmployeeVO(event. currentTarget. selectedItem) ; Alert.show(testVO. employeeID. toString( )); } and the selectedItem has these properties.. . employeeID = 1830 [0x726] employeeStatusID = 2 employeeTypeID = 1 mx_internal_ uid = "D3C...." roleID = 3 On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: can you give me a bit of code and I'll look at it so i can compile the examples ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 1:21:51 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? i tried your first suggestion, the second one I had already tried- at least with this one I get an error TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert [EMAIL PROTECTED] to com.winn.vo. EmployeeVO. Still the same question though, the datatypes seem to be compatible- so why the error? thanks, d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Jon Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] l.com <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Derrick Anderson wrote: var testVO:EmployeeVO = DataGrid(event. currentTarget) .selectedItem as EmployeeVO; Maybe this will help: var testVO:EmployeeVO = EmployeeVO(event. currentTarget. selectedItem) ; or var testVO:EmployeeVO = event.currentTarget .selectedItem as EmployeeVO; good luck, jon
