Must be how our translator does variable
name conversion. We follow the JavaBeans style and I guess doing lots of caps
in the first word messes things up? I saw someone else pointing out in a
different area how doing something with URL in the middle of the name (like
setDebugURLString) didn’t work and had to change the acronym to lowercase
(setDebugUrlString).
Matt
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Robert Brueckmann
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:23
AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] variable
naming convention oddity
I just encountered something very bizarre. I have a java VO
called
DateSpans...it's a class that simply contains a
whole set of variations
of date spans available for a portfolio the user
selects and I use this
class to dynamically set the calendar component in
my flex app.
The DateSpans class is populated by a procedure in
the database and then
I send the DateSpans VO back to my Flex delegate
class and use it
accordingly in my app. An example of some of
the fields of this VO is
...
previousMTDFromDate
mTDFromDate
mTDToDate
previousQTDFromDate
qTDFromDate
qTDToDate
...
I have a corresponding ActionScript VO that has
all the same fields.
Well, in my Flex app, I would retrieve the
previousMTDFromDate and it
would work...then when I went to retrieve the
mTDFromDate or the
mTDToDate, I would get an undefined returned to
me. I have 25 other
fields that I use and they were all turning back
the date to me
correctly...except for the ones that were named
starting with yTD, mTD,
qTD. It wasn't until I actually went through
the fields in both VOs and
renamed those fields to:
...
mtdFromDate
mtdToDate
qtdFromDate
qtdToDate
ytdFromDate
ytdToDate
...
That I started getting the returned item I was
successfully getting from
the other fields...is there some issue with a
naming convention with
fields that start with only one lowercase
letter? I SWEAR all I did was
rename the fields to the examples above from
qTDFromDate to qtdFromDate
and so on and that fixed my problem. I
thought I was going crazy...I
was watching Java set the variables and I was
calling them to
doublecheck right before I sent the DateSpans
object back to my
ActionScript delegate class and all the info was
there as I expected it
to be for every field in the VO...and as soon as I
entered the delegate
I was printing out these fields...everything was
properly set except for
the ones that started with a single lowercase
letter followed by a
series of capital letters...isn't that
bizarre? I named them initially
that way just for function naming sake so the
functions would be
setMTDFromDate, getMTDToDate, etc just for ease of
readability...but now
they're all setMtdFromDate, getMtdToDate, which
isn't the end of the
world but I think this is kind of a funny behavior...am
I missing
something?
Robert L. Brueckmann
Senior Web Developer
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