User Guide

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The session ID is the client ID assigned to your Flex application. Reloading the Flex

application starts a new session with a new session ID.

To set credentials in a message in Flex, before sending the message through the gateway to the

CFC, you use the

setRemoteCredentials method, as follows:

var msg:Message = new AsyncMessage();

msg.body = input.text;

msg.headers.gatewayID = "Flex2CF";

msg.setRemoteCredentials("mycfusername", "mycfpassword");

To authenticate the credentials sent in the message, in an Application.cfm or Application.cfc

file, you use the

cflogin tag, as follows:

<cfloginuser name="#cflogin.name#" password="#cflogin.password#"

roles="#roles#">

</cfif>

</cflogin>

Data translation

The following table lists the ColdFusion data types and the corresponding Adobe Flash or

ActionScript data type:

ColdFusion data type Flash data type

String String

Array [] = Array

Struct {} = untyped Object

Query Array of untyped Objects

CFC Class = typed Object (if a matching ActionScript class

exists, otherwise the CFC becomes a generic untyped

Object (map) in ActionScript)

CFC Date ActionScript Date

CFC String ActionScript String

CFC Numeric ActionScript Numeric

ColdFusion XML Object ActionScript XML Object