Comments on: Instant Model Binding With Reflection

By: Adobe Flex Tutorial

Adobe Flex Tutorial — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:06:50 +0000

Hey,
Thanks a lot for sharing that class, really useful :D. I wrote a review in french about it there :
http://www.flex-tutorial.fr/2009/04/02/flex-tips-remplir-un-model-a-partir-dun-fichier-de-configuration-xml-automatiquement/
I also added the Boolean type in your class, just adding a case to the type switch:
case “Boolean”:
this[key] = value == “true” ? true : false;
break;

Thanks !
Fabien

By: Steve Schelter

Steve Schelter — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:30:54 +0000

That’s pretty sweet dude! You could apply that to cairngorm as well, except with that you would probably tie it to generating the VOs within the models, rather than the models themselves.

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:43:03 +0000

@Dylan, I didn’t make it clear enough, but each model binds to a single XML node, so to populate a set of models from an XML file, you should loop through the child nodes, creating a new model passing each node individually, f.ex.

var root:XML = XML(someloader.data);
for each (var node:XML in root.*)
{
   models.push(new SomeModel(node));
}

By: Flash Teh Ripper

Flash Teh Ripper — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:19:48 +0000

Hmm looks like something fundamental.

The next thing I’m going to do is heavy testing of Your Majesty approach at the HUGE.GIS.XML file containing regular GIS data from the MapServer (usually overloaded by “boundingbox” and “geometry” tags). Let’s see how it will work. I saved the link to this page and then report results of my experiment here. If you’re interested.

Feeling amazed.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:44:10 +0000

This is awesome. I’m unclear how to get the data from the model, however.

I’ve created a test class into which I’m loading an XML file then instantiating “bookModel” and passing the XML as an argument. It compiles without errors, but I feel like I’m missing something, since I can’t yet do anything with it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for an excellent post. I’m hoping to get this working asap.

By: Tony Alves

Tony Alves — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:03:21 +0000

Very Nice. I believe there has been a lot of questions on how to do this on the flexcoders group.
Thanks for sharing this little gem.

Tony