The HTTPServlet has a property called resultFormat to allow the programmer to control how the data is formatted in the response. The default, "object", causes the response XMLNode to be parsed into a flex object tree. GREAT. But it also converts the strings in the XML into known types. Thus the string "100e" is converted into the number 100. The "e" is removed because it is unnecessary. Problem is, we didn't want the string "100e" to be parsed at all. We wanted it to stay a string.
In general, we will receive unknown data in the response and don't want the parser fiddling with the data. Just leave the data as strings as it transforms the xml into an object tree so we can easily reference components using the convenient dot notation. Does anyone know of a way to override the type conversion in the "object" format or specify another option to get flex to parse the XMLNode into an object without type conversion? Maybe an option like "objectstrings" or such? I know I could write a routine to take the XMLNode response and convert it into an object myself.... but it seems quite inefficient. Thanks.
