Hi,
I have a problem with inherited objects inside Flex using
wsdl as the source of the object. The AS-classes are generated
inside Flex Builder 3.
Inside the wsdl I have 2 complex types:
<complexType abstract="true" name="PersistentObject">
<sequence>
<element name="id" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="insertTimeStamp" nillable="true"
type="xsd:dateTime"/>
<element name="insertUsername" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="updateTimeStamp" nillable="true"
type="xsd:dateTime"/>
<element name="updateUsername" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
and
<complexType name="Contact">
<complexContent>
<extension base="tns3:PersistentObject">
<sequence>
<element name="birthday" nillable="true"
type="xsd:dateTime"/>
<element name="firstName" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="lastName" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="middleName" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="newPassword" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="password" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="title" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<element name="username" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
</sequence>
</extension>
</complexContent>
</complexType>
The classes in actionscript seem plausable:
public class PersistentObject
{
/**
* Constructor, initializes the type class
*/
public function PersistentObject() {}
public var id:String;
public var insertTimeStamp:Date;
public var insertUsername:String;
public var updateTimeStamp:Date;
public var updateUsername:String;
}
and
public class Contact extends PersistentObject
{
/**
* Constructor, initializes the type class
*/
public function Contact() {}
public var birthday:Date;
public var firstName:String;
public var lastName:String;
public var middleName:String;
public var newPassword:String;
public var password:String;
public var title:String;
public var username:String;
}
When I want to retreive an object of type Contact, it seems
that only a couple of entries are filled. While debugging the flex
XMLDecoder, I noticed something strange. It seems, like the decoder
is expecting the result xml data to be in alphabetical order:
birthday, firstname, lastname, etc. But since the object is
inherited, the data that is actually received contains elements
from the parent class: birthday, firstname, id, inserttimestamp,
...
The resulting object has just birthday and firstname filled,
which is somehow wrong. This seems to be a problem inside the
parser itself. What can I do?
