Processing RemoteObject data Step by Step

[ProjectedSurplu]

My <mx:RemoteObject> hits a CF8 cfc and I can bind to the results using    text="{svcColdFusion.GetHello.lastResult}"

I thought I read in liveDocs that RO's return ArrayCollections by default -- is this correct and/or does the cfc's     returntype="   " affect this?

Or if this is incorrect, then I assume I must cast the RO resultEvent to an array collection?

[ProjectedSurplu]

From all examples thus far it seems as though the RemoteObject resultEvent must be cast to an ArrayCollection.  Not sure if this can be done in an <mx:ArrayCollection> (comments welcome) rather than in a script block but this works: (for anyone following along my learning path)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" initialize="svcColdFusion.NewVisitor()">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
            import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
            import mx.controls.Alert;
            import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
           
            [Bindable]
            private var myArray:ArrayCollection

            private function if_RO_Fault(event:FaultEvent):void {
                mx.controls.Alert.show(event.message as String, "Service Error");
            }

            private function if_RO_Result(event:ResultEvent):void {
                myArray = event.result as ArrayCollection;
            }

        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

   
    <mx:RemoteObject id="svcColdFusion"     
        destination="ColdFusion"      
        endpoint="http://___your IP num____::8500/flex2gateway/"
        source="test.cfcs.helloworld" >
            <mx:method name="SingleRow" fault="if_RO_Fault(event)"
result="if_RO_Result(event)"/>

    </mx:RemoteObject>
   
<mx:VBox>

    <mx:DataGrid id="DG1" dataProvider="{myArray}" />  
      <mx:Label id="Lbl1" text="{myArray.getItemAt(0).familyName}" />
 
</mx:VBox>
   
</mx:Canvas>

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Now for the tricky part (IMHO). Correct me if I am wrong, but to separate View from Model, best practice is to NOT directly use the specific elements {myArray.getItemAt(0).familyName} as above but rather to convert them to a Value Object then use that VO to populate attributes.?????

[Michael_Borbor]

Well in that case what you could do is myVOEntity=myVOEntity(myArrayCollection.getItemAt(0))