User Guide

72 Chapter 4: Using Flash Remoting Data in ActionScript
The following example shows a Java class service function that creates a typed object and returns
it to Flash:
package mycompany.flash;
import flashgateway.io.ASObject;
public class MyFlashService
{
public MyFlashService()
{
}
public ASObject getFlashObject()
{
ASObject aso = new ASObject("MyFlashObject");
aso.put("first", "apple");
aso.put("second", "banana");
return aso;
}
}
Note that this example specifies the object type, MyFlashObject, in the constructor.
To create a Flash typed object in ColdFusion, use the
cfobject tag or the CreateObject
function, specifying the type as
Java and class as flashgateway.io.ASObject. Then use the
object’s
setType() method to set the Flash object type name. The following CFML code is the
equivalent to the Java code:
<cffunction access="remote" name="getFlashObject">
<cfobject type="JAVA" class="flashgateway.io.ASObject" name="myOb
" action="CREATE" >
<cfset myobj.setType("MyFlashObject")>
<cfset myobj.put("first", "apple")>
<cfset myobj.put("second", "banana")>
<cfreturn myobj>
</cffunction>
Working withJava serializable objects
If a service function returns an object that implements the Java Serializable interface, its public
and private properties are available as ActionScript properties. For example, a Java service method
might return the following JavaBean as the result of a Flash Remoting method invocation. In this
case, all three private properties, text, recipient, and server, are available to Flash.
public class Message implements java.io.Serializable
{
private String text;
private String recipient;
private String server;
public Message()
{
this.text = "Default message";
this.recipient = "[e-mail]";
this.server = "smtp.macromedia.com";
}