Re: Typed Objects from AS2 to .NET Assembly

From: fluorine-bounces@... [mailto:fluorine-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Peter Banfield
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:06 PM
To: Fluorine Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Fluorine] Typed Objects from AS2 to .NET Assembly

Thank you for your responses, and I have spent the last few days pouring over the docs, and what I’m trying to do is send a custom class object FROM Actionscript (via Flash 8/AS2) to a .NET Assembly (2.0). Rather than talk theory, here’s my code:

AS2 Flash, Sample App – on the frame:

import mx.remoting.Service;

import mx.remoting.PendingCall;

import mx.rpc.RelayResponder;

import mx.rpc.ResultEvent;

import Fluorine.Stuff;

Object.registerClass("Fluorine.Stuff", Fluorine.Stuff);

var stuff:Stuff = new Stuff();

stuff.Name = "Ed";

var remotingService:Service = new Service('http://localhost/fluorine/gateway.aspx', null, 'Fluorine.FlashRemoting');

var pc:PendingCall = remotingService.Hello(stuff);

pc.responder = new RelayResponder(_root, "FlashRemoting_onSuccess", "FlashRemoting_onFault");

function FlashRemoting_onFault(fault)

{

       trace("Error: " + fault.fault.faultstring);

}

function FlashRemoting_onSuccess(re:ResultEvent)

{

       trace("Success! : " + re.result);

}

============================

AS2 Custom/Object Class:

class Fluorine.Stuff

{

       private var _name:String;

       public function get Name():String {return _name;}

       public function set Name(param_name:String):Void {_name = param_name;}

       public function Stuff(){}

}

============================

C# Remoting Reception Class:

using System;

namespace Fluorine

{

    public class FlashRemoting

    {

        public string Hello(Stuff s)

        {

            return s.Name;

        }

    }

}

============================

C# Custom/Object Class:

using System;

namespace Fluorine

{

    public class Stuff

    {

        private string _name;

        public string Name

        {

            get { return _name; }

            set { _name = value; }

        }

        public Stuff() {}

    }

}

============================

Web.config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

    <appSettings/>

    <connectionStrings/>

    <system.web>

        <compilation debug="true" />

        <authentication mode="Windows" />

      <httpModules>

        <add name="FluorineGateway" type="com.TheSilentGroup.Fluorine.FluorineGateway, com.TheSilentGroup.Fluorine"/>

      </httpModules>

    </system.web>

</configuration>

The result is: “Success! : null”

Some notes here…

Both the AS and C# custom objects reside in the same namespace/package location.

Debugging from the Visual Studio side, the name of the property come thru (both private and public: _name and Name), but the value is null, on both.

Now, with Macromedia’s Remoting the C# side would expect the type “ASObject” and use reflection, then convert to the custom object. I’m assuming this is done within Fluorine via the “classMappings.”

I’m beginning to think just sending primitives is the way to go, because when I send an object, or strings, the remoting works as documented.

(BTW: I’m not using Flex… flash.net.registerClassAlias doesn’t apply here)

Please, give this a try, and see if you don’t get the same results I have.

Any insight would be very much appreciated… thanks folks