RE: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-04 Thread Emile Swain
Creative Developer Direct: 020 7087 2754 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lostinrecursion Sent: 03 December 2006 16:59 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best

RE: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-04 Thread Peter Farland
It depends on what Java type ColdFusion returns to FDS for serialization. By default, FDS returns java.util.Collection implementations as mx.collections.ArrayCollection, and native Java Arrays (i.e Object[]) as ActionScript Arrays. So, if your seeing that event.result can be successfully coerced

[flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-03 Thread lostinrecursion
Hi all, This is a best practice question really. I use Cairngorm for the larger apps I build. I also use Coldfusion and the nifty class mapping that it can perform between DTOs (or VOs, whatever you call them) Here's the conundrum. A lot of my top level classes have ArrayCollections of other

Re: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-03 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Maybe i'm wrong and there is special internal coldfusion handling involved, but i don't think, you can cast an Array to a ArrayCollection. You can only cast the result to something it already is. So if your result is a custom object, you have to add it to a new ArrayCollection. Casting to

Re: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-03 Thread hank williams
On 12/3/06, Ralf Bokelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe i'm wrong and there is special internal coldfusion handling involved, but i don't think, you can cast an Array to a ArrayCollection. You can only cast the result to something it already is. So if your result is a custom object, you have

Re: [flexcoders] Simple Question - Array to ArrayCollection - Best Practice/CFusion

2006-12-03 Thread Steve Hindle
I didn't think you could do that (cast) - I thought you needed to create a new ArrayCollection _based_ on the array? (ie var ac:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(myArray) ) On 12/3/06, lostinrecursion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is a best practice question really. I use