User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About Flash Remoting
- Getting Started
- Using Flash Remoting ActionScript
- Using the RemotingConnector component (Flash Professional only)
- Using Flash Remoting Data in ActionScript
- About Flash Remoting and data types
- Understanding Action Message Format
- Converting from ActionScript to application server data types
- Converting from application server data types to ActionScript
- ColdFusion to ActionScript data conversion issues
- About working with objects
- About working with RecordSet objects
- About working with XML
- The NetConnection Debugger
- Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX
- Using Flash Remoting for Java
- About Flash Remoting for Java
- Calling Java classes or JavaBeans from ActionScript
- Calling Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) from Flash
- Calling servlets and JSPs from Flash
- Calling JMX MBeans from Flash (JRun only)
- Calling server-side ActionScript from Flash (JRun only)
- Handling function results in ActionScript
- Using Flash Remoting with JRun security
- Passing XML objects between Flash and Java
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Calling ASP.NET pages from Flash
- Making an ASP.NET page available to Flash Remoting
- Getting a reference to an ASPX-based service in ActionScript
- Invoking ASPX pages in ActionScript
- Using the Flash Remoting custom server control in ASPX pages
- Using the Flash Remoting namespace in code-behind files
- Using ASP.NET state management with Flash Remoting
- Using ASP.NET exception handling
- Using ADO.NET objects with Flash Remoting
- Displaying a RecordSet object in Flash with ActionScript
- Calling web services from Flash
- Calling ASP.NET assemblies from Flash
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using NetServices and Connection Classes
- Index
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CHAPTER 4
Using Flash Remoting Data in ActionScript
This chapter explains how to handle data that your ActionScript sends to and receives from
service functions. It discusses how Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript
2.0 converts data types, type-specific data handling issues, and how to use simple and complex
data types. It also discusses using RecordSet objects and other object types in detail.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “About Flash Remoting and data types” on page 63
• “Understanding Action Message Format” on page 64
• “Converting from ActionScript to application server data types” on page 65
• “Converting from application server data types to ActionScript” on page 67
• “ColdFusion to ActionScript data conversion issues” on page 69
• “About working with objects” on page 70
• “About working with RecordSet objects” on page 73
• “About working with XML” on page 85
About Flash Remoting and data types
When Flash Remoting sends data from a Flash application to an application server, and when a
server returns data to a Flash application, the data is converted twice:
• In the Flash client, between ActionScript data types and Action Message Format (AMF)
• At the server gateway, between Action Message Format and the native language of the
application (Java, C#, Visual Basic, or CFML)